doorway

Definition:
1. An opening into a building or a room, where the door is.

Use 'doorway' in a sentence:

• 1. Annie hesitated for a moment before stepping through the doorway where, almost at once, she stopped delighted before a green armchair.
• 2. He hovered nervously in the doorway.
• 3. In the lighted doorway stood the mountainous figure of a woman.
• 4. He walked towards the doorway, careful to keep his distance.
• 5. A hooded figure waited in the doorway.
• 6. A crumpled figure lay motionless in the doorway.
• 7. A group of men suddenly emerged from a doorway and moved menacingly forward to block her way.
• 8. In Russia, it's impolite to shake hands with people in a doorway.
• 9. A figure stood in the doorway, silhouetted against the light.
• 10. Amy stood quietly in the doorway watching him.
• 11. I bonked my head on the doorway.
• 12. The doorway was so low that he had to stoop.
• 13. Children came to peep at him around the doorway.
• 14. In the Blood Purge of 1934, a Nazi SS squad murdered Kurt von Schleicher in the doorway of his home.
• 15. Here and there a face peeped out from the shop doorway.
• 16. Judith was hovering in the doorway.
• 17. In architecture, a keystone in an archway or doorway is the stone that holds the whole thing together, and keeps it from collapsing.
• 18. Someone was waiting in the shadowy doorway.
• 19. We were escorted through a low doorway.
• 20. He stopped in the doorway, blocking her view.
• 21. He opened it to find a carpenter standing at the doorway.
• 22. It was hardly possible to look at the gentleman's gentleman, so very haughtily did he stand in the doorway.
• 23. Hannah looked up to see David and another man standing in the doorway.
• 24. Children came to peep at him round the doorway.
• 25. Above the ground, the doorway is small, but inside, the building is huge.
• 26. A figure in a blue dress appeared in the doorway.
• 27. The man was standing in his doorway watching him.
• 28. He stopped in the doorway, too timid to go in.
• 29. She stood in the doorway for a moment before going in.
• 30. He quickly interposed himself between Mel and the doorway.
• 31. He lay with his feet towards a doorway, and exactly opposite sat the watchman asleep.
• 32. Two pint-sized kids emerged from a doorway.
• 33. A short flight of steps led to a grand doorway.
• 34. We stood in the doorway until our eyes adjusted.
• 35. 'Where is that boy?' As if on cue, Simon appeared in the doorway.
• 36. He passed through the doorway into Ward B.
• 37. She stood in the doorway, one hand above her head in a negligent pose.
• 38. "What a dump!" Christabel said, standing in the doorway of the youth hostel.
• 39. Trooper Onozuki, wearing mask and armor, sits in the other doorway, leaning on the sling of the door-gun.
• 40. The doorway is a 19th century reconstruction of Norman work.
• 41. Nancy, out of the corner of her eye, saw the shadow that suddenly fell across the doorway.
• 42. They put a table athwart the doorway.
• 43. She remained in the doorway, listening to his litany of complaints against her client.
• 44. We sheltered in a doorway to wait out the storm.
• 45. A brilliant shaft of sunlight burst through the doorway.
• 46. An old man shuffled out of a doorway further along the corridor.
• 47. I could see a dim shape in the doorway.
• 48. He stood in the doorway, listening to her quiet, regular breathing.