Use door in a sentence
Sentences ending with door
- You could rest your elbow on its eaves, and you had to bend in order to get in at the door. [5]
- Selene herself had woven the curtain in front of the door. [10]
- The old man would not look into the empty room where he had last seen his son alive; he turned his face away and hurried by the door. [8]
- Mr Swiveller was wondering whether this might be another Miss Brass, twin sister to the Dragon, when there came a rapping of knuckles at the office door. [12]
- I've kept the wolf from the door. [11]
- Leaving the spot with slow and cautious steps, and skirting the ruin for a few paces, he came at length to a door. [12]
- I look forward with longing to the time when I can lay aside the cares of office--" ["dam sight," shouted a tipsy fellow near the door. [5]
- Marx's charcoal sledge, with its little horse, stopped before the door. [10]
- Adrian hurried home with his vial, and in his joy at bringing the sick lady relief, forgot her headache and struck the knocker violently against the door. [10]
- Who cannot sympathize with him as he watched the thin and hesitating stream of people out of the corner of his eye as they came in at the door? [9]
Short sentences using door
- Then the door was shut. [9]
- The carriage door was opened. [2]
- No door was visible. [11]
- Open the door, there! [2]
- The Colonel shut the door. [9]
- She had reached the door. [9]
- It stood behind the door. [2]
- Anna Mikhaylovna opened the door. [2]
- I went to the door. [13]
- She turned towards the door. [11]
Sentences containing door two or more times
- Dear grandfather, let us leave this sad place to-morrow, and beg our way from door to door. [12]
- Then I knocked upon the door with solemn taps, hurried back to the stove, and waited for the door to open before I applied the match. [11]
- The number of the particular door by which you are to enter the house or leave it is printed on your ticket, and you can use no door but that one. [5]
- You stepped from the front door upon the wall, which was a road between the bridges, and from the back door into the river itself. [11]
- The architect opened the door only a short distance; he was expected, for Barine soon heard him whisper, and suddenly the door was flung wide. [10]
- When he approached the door he heard Noel ranting in there and recognized the state of the case; so he remained near the door but out of sight, and heard the performance through to the end. [5]
- The door of the cavern was big enough to roll a hogshead in, and on one side of the door the floor stuck out a little bit, and was flat and a good place to build a fire on. [5]
- As he did so, the door swung in the draught, and I saw a blooming young woman,--it was my friend's sister, who had been sitting with a book in her hand, and who rose at the opening of the door. [6]
- She had not slept and had stolen downstairs on tiptoe, and going to the door of the conservatory where he slept that night had listened at the door. [2]
- No one had seen her approach, and she stole through a door which was open at the rear of the warehousing room, and went quickly to another door leading into the shop. [11]
More example sentences with the word door in them
- Say--the next time you're going in there, don't you reckon you could spread the door and--" "No, indeedy! [5]
- You may leave your constable where he is, or the man may come in and stand at this door in sight of the gentleman while you are gone--if he pleases. [9]
- He gave the young men a pretty fight indeed, and long before they had him conquered the elder guests had made their escape through door and window. [9]
- E'fin, the door you shut you can open now, and you can go from the house of Jean Touzel. [11]
- And you, sir--don't you know there has been somebody ill here, that you knock as if you'd beat the door down? [12]
- If you will, you can lock the door, and fetch me out later, before you go to rest for the night. [10]
- Oh, yes--you said you believed the door was open. [5]
- She had not yet gone to bed when the Rostovs arrived and the pulley of the hall door squeaked from the cold as it let in the Rostovs and their servants. [2]
- He had not yet been admitted to Dion's presence, but this did not appear to vex him, for he stood leaning quietly against the wall beside the door, gazing at the broad-brimmed sailor's hat which he was slowly turning in his hands. [10]
- It seems only yesterday that, for the first time, on a farm "over the border," from the French province, I saw him standing by a log outside the wood-house door, splitting maple knots. [11]
- And another year ye shall labour, and get the fruits of your labour, and not stand waiting, as it were, till a fish shall pass the spear, or a stag water at your door, that ye may slay and eat. [11]
- He pinioned her wrists with one hand and drew her towards the door, determination and anger in his face. [11]
- And if he would take her forth, give me alarm in the room opposite yonder door, and stay them, and--" "Stay them, holy Mother, at the price of my life. [11]
- I think I would have fled again had not the door been immediately opened. [9]
- But Mr. Crewe would have been interested if he could have heard Mr. Flint's first remark to the senator after the door was closed on his back. [9]
- I thought I would feel along the wall and find the door in that way. [5]
- But into the workshop came the moist, fragrant smell of the acacia and the maple, and a long brown lizard stretched its neck sleepily across the threshold of the door opening into the valley. [11]
- At length parting words were uttered in louder tones, the door of the cell was locked and the prisoner approached his window. [10]
- True to his word, he brought a crucifix and put it up--not where he wished, but, at my request, opposite the door, upon the wall. [11]
- Without saying a word Rostopchin rose and walked hastily to his light, luxurious drawing room, went to the balcony door, took hold of the handle, let it go again, and went to the window from which he had a better view of the whole crowd. [2]
- There was a wooden box of sand, sprinkled with cigar stubs and "old soldiers," and a stove with a door hanging by its upper hinge. [5]
- Madame Gravois, elderly, wizened, primp in a starched cotton gown, opened the door herself, fell upon Monsieur Vigo in the Creole fashion; and within a quarter of an hour I was installed in her best room, which gave out on a little court behind. [9]
- As the servant, without further words, turned and left her, she knocked, opened the door without awaiting a reply, and stepping into semidarkness, said softly: "Michel! [11]
- A thin hand, without any preliminary knock, now opened the door and old Fraulein Van Hoogstraten walked up to her niece. [10]
- To my kitchen with ye all; and you, messieurs"--turning to M. Aubert and De la Fore- "and you, Mademoiselle, come, know how open is the door and full the table at my Manor of Rozel--St. Ouen's keeps a beggarly board. [11]
- She turned quickly, with the pageant of her dreams still wavering in her face; smiled at him distantly, looked towards the window again in a troubled way, then stepped softly and swiftly to the door, and passed out. [11]
- Sally came forwards with the little parcel of sandwiches she had been preparing, and put them in the saddle-bags lying on a chair at the door, in readiness for the journey Jim was about to make. [11]
- A heavy thud with the knocker rang through the silent street, and after a few short questions from within and equally curt replies from without, a small door was opened in the great gate. [10]
- We covered them with such rags as we could find, and started away, fastening the door behind us. [5]
- She went in with rapid steps, pausing at the door for an instant as if struggling with herself, and then ran to her mother. [2]
- Clapping her hands with pleasure and running on before me for a short distance, my little acquaintance stopped at a door and remaining on the step till I came up knocked at it when I joined her. [12]
- Of his interview with Mr. Carvel I know nothing save that Scipio was requested presently to show him the door, and conclude therefrom that his language was but ill-chosen. [9]
- The Honourable Hilary, with his bag, was halfway to the door, when Mr. Flint crossed the room in three strides and seized him by the arm. [9]
- Fournel was standing with his back to the door, looking out into the moonlit night. [11]
- She followed him with her eyes as he passed from her sight through the door, and when it closed after him sobbed tremulously once or twice, but stilled herself, and met Helen, as she entered, with a composed countenance. [6]
- Cousin Maud hastened with all zeal to do honor to friends and guests so dear; but as she reached the door she stood still as in doubt, and signed to me so that I perceived that somewhat had gone wrong. [10]
- Opening the door with all speed, he beheld the expressive countenance of Mr Chuckster, between whom and himself a fraternal greeting ensued. [12]
- And it was with a lighter heart than he had felt for many a day that he went out of the door. [9]
- I drew near with a kind of fear, but yet I came to the door and looked in. [11]
- He was taken with a cold about three weeks ago, and I stepped over one evening, proposing to beguile an idle hour for him with a yarn or two, but was received at the door with whispers, and the information that he was dying. [5]
- He thanked Charley with a beaming face, and then the two friends bowed and moved towards the door. [11]
- The door and windows were closed, and a green myrtle-berry candle was burning on the table. [9]
- The door and windows of the little house were open that balmy afternoon, and the bees were buzzing among the flowers which Cynthia had planted on either side of the step. [9]
- It had glass windows and a lion on a blue shield on the door, and within it was all salmon silk, save the painted design on the ceiling. [9]
- At an open window by the door a kindly old face was visible, framed in long, gray hair. [10]
- His Highness Prince William, in a showy military uniform (the "true prince," this --scion of the house over-thrown by the present dynasty--he was formerly betrothed to the Princess but was not allowed to marry her), stood guard and paced back and forth within the door. [5]
- Money or beauty will open any door. [5]
- It had a wide, brownstone front, with a basement, and a high flight of steps leading up to the door. [9]
- So sacred that whoso ventured to mock them or make fun of their work, could not afterward enter any respectable house, even by the back door. [5]
- It was Hannah who, as I opened the kitchen door, turned at the sound, and set down the saucepan she was scouring. [9]
- Fortunately for Victoria, who would not in the least have known what to reply, steps were heard on the porch, and Euphrasia opened the door. [9]
- It was Archibius, who with grave composure bade them follow him, and silently led them around the sanctuary to a side door, through which, a short time before, a litter had passed, accompanied by several attendants. [10]
- Then Herr Pfinzing, who saw that the door of the house was open, asked her to come down. [10]
- The Flemish maid, who had opened the door, announced that a messenger was waiting outside with a letter which he could deliver only to the master or the mistress. [10]
- The privileged few who followed the coffin into the mausoleum remained sometime, but the King soon came out and stood in the door and near one side of it. [5]
- The same persons who abuse the reformers, and lay all our troubles at their door, are apt to be severe also on what they contemptuously emphasize as "sentiments" considered as motives of action. [6]
- Fawdor listened a while, and then went on, waving his hand to the door as he began: "Think! [11]
- In a little while they came out bringing the bier and the white covering-cloth, and locked the door again. [5]
- After a long while the slamming of a coach door roused me, and I was straightway seized with such an agony of mind that I could have cried aloud. [9]
- In a little while the heavy door opened, and a portly, rubicund man came out with a smile on his face. [9]
- Was it worth while living, only to grow older and older, and, coming, heavy with sleep, to the Homestead of the Ages, enter a door that only opened inwards, and be swallowed up in the twilight? [11]
- In a little while I was at my lodgings, soldiers posted at my door and one in my room. [11]
- The assemblage rose, whiffed ceremony to the winds, and rushed for the door like a mob; overturning chairs, smashing crockery, tugging, struggling, shouldering, crowding--anything to get out before I should change my mind and puff the castle into the measureless dim vacancies of space. [5]
- That blessed clairvoyance which sees into things without opening them, --that glorious license, which, having shut the door and driven the reporter from its key-hole, calls upon Truth, majestic virgin! [6]
- With an instinct, which proved correct, he opened the door leading into the old kitchen, and there, tied, and with pale faces, but in no other sense disordered, were Sheila and her mother. [11]
- With a swiftness which no one could have looked for from her heavy and bulky figure, Martina hastily returned to her husband, and even at the door exclaimed: "It is all right, all has gone well! [10]
- A marble mantel, which holds a clock and certain ornaments, is just beyond this door. [9]
- The subdued light which crept under the porch and came in through the fan shaped window over the door fell on his face. [9]
- You do that when you've lost a horseshoe that you've found, instead of nailing it up over the door, but I hadn't ever heard anybody say it was any way to keep off bad luck when you'd killed a spider. [5]
- Perhaps some time, when we have learned, we will let in a few of you, to look in at the door, fifty dollars a ticket, for some charity. [4]
- I hear thee when thou callest to me, and I kneel outside the door, for thou art wise, and thou speakest to me; but thee as thou art in a far land I shall see no more. [11]
- It was only when they had stopped before the door that she trusted herself to speak. [9]
- At the moment when these ambitious plans had reached the highest point of imagination, the upper half of the door beside him opened suddenly, and he heard men's voices. [11]
- At the instant when the case was most critical the tailor of Chaudiere set his foot inside the Notary's door. [11]
- She was ready when the carriage came to the door, and told the coachman to drive to the office of Mr. Sage in Nassau Street. [4]
- Cynthia promised, and when she went out at last through the little door her own tears were falling, for she loved Miss Lucretia. [9]
- She came back when she left me at your door. [11]
- It was dark when Paulette entered the door of the tailor's house. [11]
- In the hour when he had ceased to desire exit by breaking through the wall and not by the predestined door, the reply of Destiny to him had been: "It is not for you to choose. [11]
- At a moment when all was quiet before the commencement of a song, a door leading to the stalls on the side nearest the Rostovs' box creaked, and the steps of a belated arrival were heard. [2]
- Well, without noticing what I was doing, I took hold of the knob, and open comes the door! [5]
- Sobieski touched Barry Whalen's arm, and they all stood waiting while a hand slowly opened wide the door of the little room, and, white with a mastered agitation, Byng appeared. [11]
- Our eyes were wet when we reached the lower hall, and I was making for the door in an agony to leave the place, when the bailiff came out of his little office. [9]
- And no sooner were we outside the gates than I declared I should never again enter a private residence by the back door. [9]
- Behind that door were two people who despised his memory, who conspired to forget his very name. [11]
- But better things were to come: as I was about to knock at the door it opened, and five gentlemen of the Council, all men of the first rank among the Elders of the city, appeared on the threshold, and Master Pernhart in their midst. [10]
- Gopal and myself were then standing at the door of our room, and we both were threatened by Tookaram. [5]
- What if she were still standing at the door of the house to wait for Biberli? [10]
- Just as we were starting, the old woman screamed out from the door, in a shrill voice, addressing the driver, "Did you see ary a sick man 'bout 'Tigonish? [4]
- Presently the horsemen were seen, and a staring group gathered at the church door. [11]
- At last all were seated, the carriage steps were folded and pulled up, the door was shut, somebody was sent for a traveling case, and the countess leaned out and said what she had to say. [2]
- The former relations were resumed; Hendon stood behind the King's chair, while he dined, and waited upon him; undressed him when he was ready for bed; then took the floor for his own quarters, and slept athwart the door, rolled up in a blanket. [5]
- If the danger were pressing, there was a door, known only to the initiated, which led to the steps and out of the building. [10]
- But their steps were no sooner heard upon the road than the landlord, who had been at the outer door anxiously watching for their coming, rushed into the kitchen and took the cover off. [12]
- Here the streets were like a city of the dead; not a door was open, not a man to be seen. [10]
- But now steps were heard at the door, steps so rapid that they could hardly be his mother's. [2]
- Food and drink were handed to the captives through a wicket in the door. [10]
- But again there were days when he did nothing but lie on the skins at the hut's door, or saunter in the shadows and the sunlight. [11]
- By spells she wept, when they quietly pushed her from the room and locked the door. [9]
- In fact, he went up early, and locked his door after him, with as much noise as he could make. [6]
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