Example sentences for: doorways

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

  • Palm Sunday with the distribution of holy palms resulted in the palms being made into crosses and tacked over doorways to protect the family from illness or harm.

  • The three doorways, with stonework dripping like stalactites, represent Faith, Hope, and Charity, and are loaded with sculptures depicting angel choirs and musicians, and Biblical episodes such as the birth and youth of Jesus, the Flight into Egypt, the Slaughter of the Innocents, the Tree of Calvary, and much, much more.

  • McCurry's house has lots of doorways and entrances, so that the mother-in-law and the children can find their own way to the dining room at dinner time, or exit when the parents need more privacy.

  • Ichabod Crane walks through small doorways into dark-toned rooms where pasty old men in white wigs stare at him balefully and whisper in one another's ears, their bloated waistcoats jiggling.

  • "Elegantly dressed women had to squat and urinate in shop doorways because there were no facilities," one correspondent wrote.


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