Examples of doorkeeper in a Sentence
the doorkeeper held the door open for us so we didn't have to put down our packages
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Who better to help usher us through this liminal time than an ancient doorkeeper?
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Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 22 Jan. 2025
The store has a limit of 81 customers at a time, an employee working as a doorkeeper said.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff and Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 30 Nov. 2024
The team also took a closer look at Harwa, a mummified individual who lived around 3,000 years ago and was a granary’s doorkeeper.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Nov. 2024
Who better to help usher us through this liminal time than an ancient doorkeeper?
—Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 22 Jan. 2025
The more that is written about Kafka, the more that his images are scrutinized—the cages and buckets and horses, the emperors and doorkeepers—the further that access recedes.
—Joy Williams, Harper's Magazine, 2 May 2024
The store has a limit of 81 customers at a time, an employee working as a doorkeeper said.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff and Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 30 Nov. 2024
The more that is written about Kafka, the more that his images are scrutinized—the cages and buckets and horses, the emperors and doorkeepers—the further that access recedes.
—Joy Williams, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
Both tickets’ corners are missing, presumably torn by the doorkeeper in question.
—Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
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Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 22 Jan. 2025
The store has a limit of 81 customers at a time, an employee working as a doorkeeper said.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff and Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 30 Nov. 2024
The team also took a closer look at Harwa, a mummified individual who lived around 3,000 years ago and was a granary’s doorkeeper.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Nov. 2024
Who better to help usher us through this liminal time than an ancient doorkeeper?
—Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 22 Jan. 2025
The more that is written about Kafka, the more that his images are scrutinized—the cages and buckets and horses, the emperors and doorkeepers—the further that access recedes.
—Joy Williams, Harper's Magazine, 2 May 2024
The store has a limit of 81 customers at a time, an employee working as a doorkeeper said.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff and Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 30 Nov. 2024
The more that is written about Kafka, the more that his images are scrutinized—the cages and buckets and horses, the emperors and doorkeepers—the further that access recedes.
—Joy Williams, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
Both tickets’ corners are missing, presumably torn by the doorkeeper in question.
—Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
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“Doorkeeper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doorkeeper. Accessed 16 Jun. 2025.
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doorkeeper
noun
door·keep·er
-ˌkē-pər 
: a person who tends a door
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