Example sentences for: door-to-door

How can you use “door-to-door” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The increasing political activity of unions accounts for much of this rejuvenation, of course, but the phone-chain, door-to-door electioneering style of unions is being copied by the U.S.

  • Only 100,000 WebTVs have been sold so far, but that number is sure to rise: WebTV vendor Phillips is peddling the machine door-to-door, Fuller Brush-style.

  • "A political nonstarter," states Al Hunt ( Capital Gang ). "Richard Nixon did for executive privilege what the Boston Strangler did for door-to-door salesmen," quips Mark Shields ( Capital Gang ). The Nixon parallels continue on NBC's Meet the Press , where Joe diGenova faces off with Clinton spinner Lanny Davis, demanding that the president confess to having hired private dicks to investigate private citizens (including himself and his law-partner wife).

  • Many said in interviews that these new sites that help put people in electronic touch with their representatives remind them of the politics of old, when door-to-door campaigning and kissing babies won out over multimillion-dollar TV blitzes and negative campaigning.

  • Starting in the 1960s, the phone replaced door-to-door polling as the preferred means of taking the nation's pulse.


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