: a bell or set of chimes to be rung usually by a push button at an outer door
Examples of doorbell in a Sentence
We rang the doorbell until someone came to let us in.
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Neighbors on their Ring doorbell app will alert users when ICE agents are spotted on nearby roads.
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Laura Yuen, Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2026
The Ring doorbell showed someone peering through the camera, but no one answered.
—Allen Devlin, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
That network, an investigation by 404 Media found, has been available to local and federal police and enforcement agencies like ICE — leaving many worried that their Ring doorbell cams are now feeding into a government panopticon.
—Joe Wilkins Published Jan 21, Futurism, 21 Jan. 2026
Someone had ordered pizza to the home, and a delivery driver spent some time ringing the doorbell before returning to his car, taking the pies with him.
—Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 10 Jan. 2026
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Laura Yuen, Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2026
The Ring doorbell showed someone peering through the camera, but no one answered.
—Allen Devlin, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
That network, an investigation by 404 Media found, has been available to local and federal police and enforcement agencies like ICE — leaving many worried that their Ring doorbell cams are now feeding into a government panopticon.
—Joe Wilkins Published Jan 21, Futurism, 21 Jan. 2026
Someone had ordered pizza to the home, and a delivery driver spent some time ringing the doorbell before returning to his car, taking the pies with him.
—Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 10 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for doorbell
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“Doorbell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doorbell. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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doorbell
noun
door·bell
-ˌbel 
: a bell, gong, or set of chimes to be rung usually by a push button at an outside door
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