Example sentences for: doorways

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

  • You have to stoop to get through the doorways of a Tudor cottage in England because its inhabitants were smaller than you are, not because they had a penchant for crouching.

  • The traditional Qing Dyna­sty style of the mansion is enlivened by a few West­ern touches: a Baroque-style ceiling and stained glass above the doorways, showing the builder’s up-to-date attitude at the time of construction.

  • The atmospheric walled town of Trancoso (43 km/26 miles to the north of Guarda) records this heritage in the stone carvings above the doorways of Jewish houses.

  • 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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