Example sentences for: doorway

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

  • As you go in, notice the keys of St. Peter inlaid in the doorway paving.

  • There are suddenly children wild on the streets, clogging the doorway to the convenience store, raucously scraping their skateboards and roller blades along the sidewalks, flaunting their pasty winter skins in shorts and baggy untucked T-shirts.

  • A lucky survivor, this fortress (note the heraldic arms above the doorway), is now devoted to handicraft sales.

  • Look especially for the carved doorway of the 17th-century church Església del Roser down the side street carrer del Roser (across from the cathedral) and two 17th-century palaces, Palau Martorell and Can Saura, diagonally across from each other on carrer del Santissim.

  • Perhaps her fading mind called up once more the shadows of the past to float before it, and retraced, for the last time, the vanished visions of that long history--passing back and back, through the cloud of years, to older and ever older memories--to the spring woods at Osborne, so full of primroses for Lord Beaconsfield--to Lord Palmerston's queer clothes and high demeanour, and Albert's face under the green lamp, and Albert's first stag at Balmoral, and Albert in his blue and silver uniform, and the Baron coming in through a doorway, and Lord M. dreaming at Windsor with the rooks cawing in the elm-trees, and the Archbishop of Canterbury on his knees in the dawn, and the old King's turkeycock ejaculations, and Uncle Leopold's soft voice at Claremont, and Lehzen with the globes, and her mother's feathers sweeping down towards her, and a great old repeater-watch of her father's in its tortoise shell case, and a yellow rug, and some friendly flounces of sprigged muslin, and the trees and the grass at Kensington.


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