Murphy placed his hand on the doorknob and shook the door as he violently turned the knob.
Chas clung to the doorknob and continued to scowl, and studied Joe speculatively.
As he reached his hand toward the doorknob there were sounds of heavy footsteps outside.
Then the conference in the next room broke up amid laughter; the doorknob rattled; and Joan rose automatically.
In a very little time then, she was ready for the street; but with her hands on the doorknob and bolt, she hesitated, looking back, reluctant to go a thankless guest.
It seems that Maggie Geer, fitted with a mouth of unusual stretching capacity, got the doorknob in, but couldn't get it out.
Sara saw that she had just unscrewed the knob of the prose-bush, and was still holding the doorknob and the corkscrew in her hand.
As far as Sara could tell, the doorknob seemed as neatly hemmed as ever; so, overcome by curiosity, she asked the Snimmy's wife what she was going to do with it.
Her nose was not quite so debilitating as the Snimmy's; still, it nearly stuck into the doorknob as she hemmed.
Then with both hands grasping the doorknob firmly, he strained upwards, that weight be thrown off the squeaking hinges as much as possible, and swung the door back, inch by inch, until the opening permitted a successful exit.
His bare feet padded softly across the floor and he reached out and touched the doorknob with his finger tips.
This turning of the doorknob was getting to be too much for Bob and he cast about for some object which he could use as a club.
Once more the doorknob was rattled sharply; then silence again shrouded the room and Bob felt his nerves tightening.
The old hunter had seen some deer at a place called Doorknob Valley, a hollow to the southwest of Firefly Lake, and led them in that direction.
I haven't seen a winter yet when there weren't deer in Doorknob Valley.
It was noon before they came in sight of Doorknob Valley, with some hills running around one side and a series of cliffs and rough rocks and scrub pines on the other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doorknob" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
