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Example sentences for "the door"

  • He made it to the door, and Al pulled him into the back.

  • The pianist lagged behind, following the others to the door, then turned around and sat down at Jurgen's table, pulling his chair close.

  • The same name was painted on the door at eye level.

  • On the back of the door a relatively new calendar was posted with two thumb tacks.

  • When the concert was ended, Gretchen fairly ran to the exit, and stood there at the door, looking back across the auditorium.

  • The hens were clucking and scratching brown holes in the flower beds, and the wind was teasing the prince's feather by the door.

  • The thud of their galloping hoofs interrupted many a country breakfast and brought many a woman and child to the door of the farmhouses as they passed.

  • The sick man heard his wife strike a match in the kitchen, and the light of a lamp glimmered through the cracks of the door.

  • Alexandra rose quickly and came to the door.

  • They had seemed to avoid her ever since Carl Linstrum's arrival, four weeks ago that day, and she hurried to the door to welcome them.

  • Get your things on, and I'll be ready at the door by ten o'clock.

  • On the contrary, I touched him on the shoulder and ordered the car to be at the door in time to meet your train.

  • She stepped to the door of the little back parlor and spoke; and the next minute a girl came out and followed her behind the counter.

  • But when she was at the door, she stopped and turned around.

  • Here,' I says to the chap who was nearly out of the door, 'you've paid too much.

  • Suddenly he sprang to his feet with a new idea in his head, and walked to the door.

  • The parson at the door he says all serene, 'Sorry to confuse your accounts, but it'll pay for the window.

  • The instant the factotum had closed the door, Valentin addressed the girl with an entirely new earnestness.

  • A low knocking came at the door, which, for some unreasonable reason, curdled everyone's blood like the knocking in Macbeth.

  • The door, which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker, was blistered and distained.

  • A corridor joined the theatre to the door on the by-street; and with this the cabinet communicated separately by a second flight of stairs.

  • All she thought about the key was that if it was the key to the closed garden, and she could find out where the door was, she could perhaps open it and see what was inside the walls, and what had happened to the old rose-trees.

  • And she took her by the arm and half pushed, half pulled her up one passage and down another until she pushed her in at the door of her own room.

  • After she was gone Mary turned down the walk which led to the door in the shrubbery.

  • You ought to show me the door today; but I don't believe you know!

  • She went slowly half-way to the door in the wall and then she stopped and went back.

  • Carrying the hat, Freckles passed a long line of clerks, and at the door of the private office asked to see the proprietor.

  • The Angel had been told that the word he brought that morning would be final, so she curled in a window seat, dropped the curtains behind her, and in dire anxiety, waited the opening of the door.

  • Then she was almost scared to death over thinking what its mother would do to her for going away and leaving it, so she ran to a Home for little friendless babies, that was close, and banged on the door.

  • Then he went on till he came to the house of the Interpreter, where he knocked over and over; at last one came to the door, and asked who was there.

  • By laws and ordinances you will not be saved, since you came not in by the door.

  • Then the Interpreter took him, and led him up towards the door of the palace; and behold, at the door stood a great company of men, as desirous to go in; but durst not.

  • Know you not that it is written, that he that cometh not in by the door, "but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber?

  • Going to the door he pushed it open and entered the apartment.

  • The door leading to Professor Maxon's campong, left unlatched earlier in the evening by von Horn for sinister motives of his own, was still unbarred through a fatal coincidence of forgetfulness on the part of the professor.

  • Virginia Maxon shrugged her shapely shoulders and shook her head hopelessly at the forbidding panels of the door.

  • Not until the camp was wrapped in the quiet of slumber did Sing Lee return--stealthy and mysterious--to creep under cover of a moonless night to the door of the workshop.

  • He went to the window, then to the door, and there turned to me.

  • We went below, and he wished me good-night at the door of my cabin.

  • I got out of the hammock and went to the door to assure myself that the key was turned.

  • A tapping came at the door, and I heard the glutinous accents of M'ling speaking.

  • She reached the house without any impediment, looked at the number, knocked at the door, and inquired for Miss Tilney.

  • He saw no folk in the street save here and there an old woman sitting at the door of her house, and maybe a young child with her.

  • A little way across the river, but nigher to the wood, was a house or cot of that country-folk, and an old woman sat spinning in the door.

  • But the market place was wide, and they were yet some minutes getting to the door, and ere they came there Ralph said, knitting his brows anxiously: "Is this woman fair or foul to look on?

  • The officer, whose name was Blakeney, tapped at the door, and was bid to enter by a voice melodiously soft.

  • But no kind Familiar at that time appearing, and the chaise which they had ordered, driving up to the door, Montraville and his companion were obliged to take leave of Chichester and its fair inhabitant, and proceed on their journey.

  • The door of the chaise was opened: Charlotte was not there.

  • Rokoff was standing directly in front of the door.

  • The woman turned and led them up the narrow stairway that ended at the door of her quarters.

  • Rokoff half entered the room, and stood with his back against the door, speaking in a low whisper to the woman, whom Tarzan could not see.

  • At the door he handed the note to a footman.

  • Very softly he tiptoed up the stairs and along the gallery to the door of his wife's boudoir.

  • He went round to the door, and the housewife agreed to prepare him some breakfast for a trifling payment, which was done.

  • At length he went back to the door of the dining-room, paused, and found that the songs, toasts, and conversation were proceeding quite satisfactorily without his presence.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the 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:
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