doorway

[ˈdɔːrweɪ]

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

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'doorway' example 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.