door-to-door
adjective
: going or made by going to each house in a neighborhood
door-to-door salespeople
a door-to-door canvass
door-to-door
adverb
Examples of door-to-door in a Sentence
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One decision this spring that is already reshaping the 2024 presidential race allowed super PACs and campaigns for the first time to work together to plan and execute costly door-to-door canvassing operations.
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Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 10 June 2024
Can Michigan model work for Biden in NC? Flipping North Carolina in the presidential race, holding onto the governor’s mansion and breaking the Republican supermajority in the state legislature will take a lot of on-the-ground organizing, including going door-to-door, by Democrats, Whitmer said.
—Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 4 June 2024
The thrilling door-to-door urban combat of the first half gives way to the chaos and failure of the second.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 May 2024
IndyStar's new public safety reporter Jade Jackson walked with an Anderson father who went door-to-door in Indianapolis this week searching for information about the shooting death of his son, 19-year-old JaDen Thrasher.
—Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 23 May 2024
Another study of door-to-door visits by police officers in New Haven, Connecticut, resulted in greater support by citizens for boosting department funding.
—Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2024
Joey Logano gets in front of Denny Hamlin’s bumper as Christopher Bell slips back to third, now door-to-door with Ryan Blaney.
—Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 20 May 2024
In the run-up to the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011, the CIA staged a phony door-to-door vaccination drive in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where bin Laden lived, in order to collect DNA samples from his family and confirm his whereabouts.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 2 May 2024
Michael McDowell and Tyler Reddick are door-to-door!
—Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 21 Apr. 2024
Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 10 June 2024
Can Michigan model work for Biden in NC? Flipping North Carolina in the presidential race, holding onto the governor’s mansion and breaking the Republican supermajority in the state legislature will take a lot of on-the-ground organizing, including going door-to-door, by Democrats, Whitmer said.
—Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 4 June 2024
The thrilling door-to-door urban combat of the first half gives way to the chaos and failure of the second.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 May 2024
IndyStar's new public safety reporter Jade Jackson walked with an Anderson father who went door-to-door in Indianapolis this week searching for information about the shooting death of his son, 19-year-old JaDen Thrasher.
—Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 23 May 2024
Another study of door-to-door visits by police officers in New Haven, Connecticut, resulted in greater support by citizens for boosting department funding.
—Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 May 2024
Joey Logano gets in front of Denny Hamlin’s bumper as Christopher Bell slips back to third, now door-to-door with Ryan Blaney.
—Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 20 May 2024
In the run-up to the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011, the CIA staged a phony door-to-door vaccination drive in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where bin Laden lived, in order to collect DNA samples from his family and confirm his whereabouts.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 2 May 2024
Michael McDowell and Tyler Reddick are door-to-door!
—Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 21 Apr. 2024
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