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Example sentences for "closed door"

  • Those who are familiar with the Hunt masterpiece will remember how it pictures the Saviour standing patiently and knocking earnestly at a fast-closed door.

  • In the first stanza we are reminded that there are many nominal Christians bearing "His Name and sign" who yet are keeping the waiting, patient Saviour outside a "fast-closed door.

  • A sharp cry of pain--a man's cry--rang out from behind a closed door on the landing I was approaching.

  • We had drawn back behind the half-closed door of the room wherein we had kept our night vigil, and standing there scarcely daring to breathe, we watched a dark-haired young man in a brown tweed suit ascend the stairs.

  • To the left was a closed door--the room from which had come the sound of Eric's voice on that fatal night.

  • A closed door stood at the end of a narrow passage, and from the further side of the door a stifled sound of terror came persistently.

  • There is a closed door at the back that I have well prepared," said Coryndon, pulling a bit of sacking over his bent shoulders.

  • The counter ran from the front window lengthwise to the back of the shop, and at the back, on your left as you went in, was a closed door.

  • There they found themselves in a hall, and at a little distance down the hall they saw a dim light shining under a closed door.

  • The walls were unbroken, except by window-slits on one side, the open doorway on another, and on a third a closed door, which no one had before observed.

  • At the top of a stair was a closed door, which he unlocked with his key, and locked after the others had passed through.

  • My search was rewarded by the discovery of one thin streak of yellow light along what must have been the bottom of a closed door.

  • I put down the book at which my brain had been scratching like a dog scratching at a closed door.

  • For through the half-closed door I had caught sight of the slowly raised iron rod, the very rod I had wrenched from the outer hall window.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "closed door" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bear the; bet you; closed circuit; closed door; closed eyes; closed shop; closed system; closed the; closed vessel; fear lest; found elsewhere; good conduct; immense quantities; listened intently; mention made; mere nature; next come; opening the; personal ambition; remarks upon; said half; should cease; state organization; that old; watch them; wild thyme