Use doors in a sentence
Sentences starting with doors
- Doors and windows of the stable were open wide and had a deserted look. [13]
- Doors opened softly before them; they climbed stairs, and threaded corridors, and penetrated crypts, strange yet familiar to her eyes, which seemed to her as if they could see, as it were, in darkness. [6]
- Doors open at 7; performance begins at 8. [5]
Sentences ending with doors
- For Carmen, dining with Mrs. Schuyler Blunt was a distinct gain, and indirectly opened many other hitherto exclusive doors. [4]
- Seitz first knocked with his fingers and then with his clenched fist, until the grandmother exclaimed: "You have destroyed the house, at least spare the doors. [10]
- Day before yesterday, when we went about to learn how large a stock of provisions every house contains, people treated me and the others very rudely, many even turned us out of doors. [10]
- Almost every member was standing, and it seemed as if they were all shouting,--"personal privilege," "fraud," "trickery," "open the doors. [9]
- The medley of voices within ceased; there were sounds of rattling papers, and of closing of folding doors. [9]
- It was weariful to wade through them, and when at last I reached the Im Hoff house Master Ulsenius called to me down the stairs: "Silence, Mistress Margery; there is worse weather in here than without doors! [10]
- The Vicomtesse went to the doorway, looked at him, and closed the battened doors. [9]
- The Vicomtesse turned to her own frightened servants in the doorway, bade Andre in French to run for Dr. Perrin, and herself closed the battened doors. [9]
- They begged him to come, and, bringing his medicines, save the people, for death was galloping through the town, knocking at many doors. [11]
- It turned out to be one of those rich and rare fall days which is just a June day toned down to a degree where it is heaven to be out of doors. [5]
Short sentences using doors
- The doors were unlocked. [11]
- Cynthia came to the doors. [9]
- I closed the doors. [9]
- There are many doors. [11]
- Break down the doors! [11]
- Lock the doors! [10]
Sentences containing doors two or more times
- The marble casements of the doors had been shattered in several places, and the double doors themselves pierced all over with bullet holes, from the musketry that played upon them from the staircase during that eventful night. [4]
- Alone he was, for only to one may the doors within doors be opened-only to one so dear that all else is everlastingly distant may the true tale of the life beneath life be told. [11]
- There are seven entrance doors on each side of the theater and four at the butt, eighteen doors to admit and emit 1,650 persons. [5]
More example sentences with the word doors in them
- Then the seven young men turned them away from their homes, and the strangers shut the doors upon them. [5]
- Sure enough, when you saw the shut doors and open windows of those empty houses, all white without in the sun and dark within, and not a human to be seen, you could believe almost anything. [11]
- Then we passed within the great doors, and it seemed that the riches of the world were before us! [5]
- She was familiar with one of the prisons, whose doors she had opened to many a hapless mortal whose disappearance, in her opinion, might be of service to the Queen. [10]
- His wooden image, with his bow drawn, above the doors of taverns, was a frequent feature of the scenery. [5]
- They are met with everywhere,--in one's daily walk, at the thresholds of the doors one enters, in the gentleman's library, on the rug of my lady's sitting-room and on the cushion of her carriage. [6]
- The doors and windows were sealed tight, and there was nothing to be seen; yet she was more than ever conscious of a presence grown more manifest. [11]
- Franz von Welemisl, who was wont to creep like her shadow, and who was again a guest at the Tetzels' house, had been kept within doors by the cough that plagued him. [10]
- Presently the doors were thrown open, two halberdiers stepped inside, and an officer of the Court announced Admiral his Serene Highness Prince Philip d'Avranche, Duc de Bercy. [11]
- The innumerable exits were there in the wall of life and none had opened to him; but since the evening when he saw Jasmine at the railway station, there had been an opening of doors in his soul hitherto hidden. [11]
- All the doors were open, all the furniture was being carried out or moved about, and the mirrors and pictures had been taken down. [2]
- The entrance doors were once more opened, and my lord, in a temper, at once began: "You press your courtesies too far, Sir John Enderby. [11]
- The doors, too, were arched and low, some with oaken portals and quaint benches, where the former inhabitants had sat on summer evenings. [12]
- He eyed the well-scraped over-mantel askance and saw, with scarcely concealed astonishment, a fine, old, carved wooden seat carried out of doors to make room for an American rocking-chair. [11]
- Warm-hearted as she was, she fully realized the debt of gratitude she owed to the lady Euryale; and she could not blame the high-priest, whom prudence certainly compelled to close his doors against her. [10]
- Within doors supper was now ready, but we, as beseemed us, kept out of the way. [10]
- Willarski coughed, he was answered by the Masonic knock with mallets, the doors opened before them. [2]
- In the midst was an open court, on to which opened the doors of the rooms of the priests and philosophers. [10]
- To Margaret, who was able to return the hospitality she received, and whose equipage was almost as much admired as her toilets, all doors were open--a very natural thing, surely, in a good-natured, give-and-take world. [4]
- In the right wall of the entry there were also two small doors, reached by a flight of steps. [10]
- His official wagons wait at the doors of the newspaper offices and scud to him with the first copies that come from the press. [5]
- It was only visible things, or sounds, that appeared to open the doors of memory of the most recent happenings. [11]
- Strips of dresses, vainly tied around the handles of the doors, signified the contrivance to which feminine despair had resorted as a means of keeping out the murderers. [5]
- It might help us for the moment, but it wouldn't keep the wolf from their doors for a week; and then they would go on just as before, only they wouldn't be on such good terms with the wolf. [8]
- I look back upon it as a beautiful, unshadowed dream out of doors or in a pleasant house where everybody loved me. [10]
- When he stood up to open a door--he opened all the doors with old-fashioned latches--he was portentously tall, and when stretched on the rug before the fire he seemed too long for this world--as indeed he was. [4]
- At this point, under most circumstances, I would close the doors and draw the veil of privacy before the chamber where the birth which we call death, out of life into the unknown world, is working its mystery. [6]
- Now would Mark Twain remark to this: 'An American is not such a fool: when a creditor stands in his way he closes his doors, and reopens them the following day. [5]
- The narrow old trim of the doors and windows had been kept, and the quaintly ugly marble mantels. [8]
- They went in together, and the doors closed behind them. [9]
- It opens doors to so much of humanity and life. [11]
- Oh, I'm going to live with the doors and windows open. [9]
- My object was to come out upon my guards as La Jongleuse, and, in the fright and confusion which should follow, make my escape through the corridors and to the entrance doors, past the sentinels, and so on out. [11]
- It was necessary to close the doors to keep out the wandering cows and pigs, and I am bound to say that, notwithstanding the voices of the night, we slept there the sleep of peace. [4]
- He waved it to and fro in his wild harangue; he threw up his arms towards the ominous gloom, and with blatant fury ordered open the prison doors. [11]
- In the mean time the commission sat with closed doors and deliberated. [5]
- Forcing my way through the doors, I captured a salesman, and from a state bordering on nervous collapse he became galvanized into an intense alertness and respect when he understood my desires. [9]
- Now, with a thrill of pleasure, she saw its doors open. [11]
- It seemed as though every man in the opposition was on his feet and yelling at the chair: some to adjourn; some to indefinitely postpone; some demanding roll-calls; others swearing at these--for a division vote would have opened the doors. [9]
- She heard disquieting things, I am sure, from Cousin Robert Breck, who had become more and more querulous since the time-honoured firm of Breck and Company had been forced to close its doors and the home at Claremore had been sold. [9]
- Only the dishonourable thing could make me close the doors of my heart, and I will not think you, whate'er they say, unworthy of my constant faith. [11]
- The walls are thick, and those big mahogany doors fit like a glove. [11]
- On all sides they saw rain-soaked officers with dejected faces who seemed to be seeking something, and soldiers dragging doors, benches, and fencing from the village. [2]
- When at length they had all departed, Jethro rose and went about the house making fast the doors, as was his custom, while Cynthia sat staring through the bars at the dying embers in the stove. [9]
- In one of these villages we passed a church, its doors flung open; the congregation was singing a familiar hymn. [9]
- About this time there was noticed an increased bustle in the passages, with a considerable opening and shutting of doors. [6]
- He and Doltaire then moved on to the doors of the citadel, and, pausing there, Doltaire turned round and made a motion of his hand to Gabord. [11]
- She had used them all; but she had forgotten to look for the Single Secret, which, like a key, unlocks all doors in the House of Happiness. [11]
- Shopmen stood at their doors and cried, "Rally up, rally up, buy, buy, buy! [9]
- The doors of the White Gate now opened; Commissioner Van Bronkhorst, Van der Werff, Van Hout and other leaders of the community accompanied the British colonel and his trumpeter to the bridge. [10]
- In one of the upper chambers of the old mansion there stood a tall, upright desk of the ancient pattern, with folding doors above and large drawers below. [6]
- The alarm-bell in the Tower of Pancratius rang incessantly, and more than once doors opened, voices and shots were heard. [10]
- The doors of the temple were thrown wide open; the temple-servants and hundreds of soldiers were busied in clearing the steps and approaches of the stones and fragments of statuary with which the heathen had encumbered them. [10]
- The doors of the supper-room now flew open. [10]
- All abroad over the spacious floor, and clear down to the doors, in a thick jumble, lay or sat the scrofulous, under a strong light. [5]
- The doors at the south end of the great salon opened now and then into the council chambers beyond, and he could see the surgeons operating on the cases returned from the plantations. [11]
- The doors of the sanctuary were closed, and guarded by soldiers; but the southern and western walls were surrounded by thousands and thousands of heathen. [10]
- The invitation to the Rassinghams flung wide the doors which had formerly been closed against her, and she might be sure of not being deemed the least important among the ladies of her party to whose hearts the cause of King and Church was dear. [10]
- Somebody--the next on the program--attempted to follow him, but presently the company melted out of the doors and crept away into the night. [5]
- The balance of the population are asleep within doors, or abroad tending goats in the plains and on the hill-sides. [5]
- He then gave the order to admit the Alexandrian citizens, and the words of entreaty died upon the lips of the unfortunate imperial bride, for the folding doors were thrown open and the deputation advanced through them. [10]
- When it comes, the news flies from room to room in the house, there are bangings on the doors, and shoutings, "The ice-storm! [5]
- Rostov went to the middle of the room and looking through the open doors into the two adjoining rooms saw the same thing there. [2]
- At half-past nine the great doors opened, and the procession began, in slow and stately moving fashion, to enter. [4]
- To the barn, the great cavernous barn, its huge doors now wide open, the stalls vacant, the mows empty, the sunlight sifting in through the high shadowy spaces. [4]
- The window and the glass doors that gave from Ingolby's room upon the veranda on the south side of the house, were open, and the air was warm as in Midsummer. [11]
- She called out the frankest part of him; she opened the doors of his nature; she attracted confidence as the sun does the sunflower. [11]
- The former close the doors, the latter would fain open them; the gates of a prison, I mean. [10]
- They ran to the doors, and knocked, and strangers opened, and looked inquiringly upon them. [5]
- They sat near the doors where the performers entered. [11]
- Then one of the doors was pushed open a scant four inches, a scarlet madras handkerchief appeared in the crack above a yellow face. [9]
- The hinges of the doors stretched out like arms, instead of like hands, as we make them. [6]
- At that moment the doors of the courtyard opened, and men stepped inside, one coming quickly forward before the rest. [11]
- The remainder of the day, if the weather was pleasant, I spent out of doors, usually in the grounds under the leafy trees and groups of shrubs on the shore of the Enz. [10]
- The doors of the courtyard flew open, and out came squad after squad of soldiers. [11]
- The noise in the corridors grew louder, some one dealt a smashing kick on a panel, and Wetherell ventured to ask Mr. Bixby if he thought the doors would hold. [9]
- Not long since, the church-wardens were repairing and beautifying an old Saxon church in a certain English village, and among other things thought the doors should be attended to. [6]
- Instead of encouraging the bringing of trade to their doors, the towns diligently and effectively discouraged it. [5]
- It stood at the back of the cella in a place accessible to the priesthood alone, visible only through the open doors, upon a pedestal which his fellow-artists pronounced rather too high. [10]
- The difficulty is that the stragglers, organized under fantastic names in pretentious associations, or lurking in solitary dens behind doors left ajar, make no real contributions to the art of healing. [3]
- He thought, however, that the doorway led to a staircase, like most doors of the kind in old buildings. [11]
- From the day that that dreary news came we had one scare after another, the marauders coming almost to our doors every now and then; so that we lived in ever-increasing apprehension, and yet were somehow mercifully spared from actual attack. [5]
- There were on that side but few bronze doors, and these, which were opened only to the inhabitants of the building, had long since been locked for the night and needed no guard. [10]
- I was sure that should he guess at the exact relations between us, Alixe would be sent behind the tall doors of a convent, where I should knock in vain. [11]
- And the drama that occurred was the more horrible because it was hidden; played, as it were, behind closed doors. [9]
- My mother insists that I shall never darken the doors of the Intendant's palace. [11]
- I am glad that I conquered the baser part of me; for, almost before I had grown calm again, the bolts of the dungeon doors shot back, and presently Gabord stepped inside, followed by a muffled figure. [11]
- If I could tell you half that mothers have told me, you would feel that the worst of all diseases of the moral sense and the will are those which all the Bedlams turn away from their doors as not being cases of insanity! [6]
- Through the padded swinging doors entered, as in a play, character after character. [4]
- He was makin' such a noise that they had to close the doors of the theatre--so's not to disturb the play-actors. [9]
- Twice the clock struck again, at the half-hour and midnight, and the noises in the house--the banging of doors and the jangling of keys and the hurrying of feet in the corridors--were hushed. [9]
- House after house, street after street, closed doors, repellant fronts, staring at her. [4]
- The latter was still seeking a fitting reply, when the folding doors of the room were thrown wide open, and a belated party of travellers entered. [10]
- The lock was still on the doors, the walls were intact, there was no window for entrance or escape. [11]
- I reached her steps, the long steps still guarded by the curved wrought-iron railings reminiscent of Nathaniel's day, though the "portals" were gone, a modern vestibule having replaced them; I rang the bell; the butler, flung open the doors. [9]
- From my first step out of doors I belonged to life, to the corps, to pleasure. [10]
- The afternoon trains, steaming hot, are crowded to the doors, the station a scene of animation, and Main Street, dazzling in snow, is alive with a stream of men, with eddies here and there at the curbs and in the entries. [9]
- At last it sounded, and when we had pressed through the wide-open doors, what splendours greeted our enraptured eyes and ears! [10]
- Sometimes one and sometimes another would offer to carry her to this or that place of worship; and when the doors were hospitably opened, she would often go meekly in by herself. [6]
- As he did so, Bucklaw eyed the room doors, windows, fireplaces, with a grim, stealthy smile trailing across his face. [11]
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