: 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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Set up a guest network for visitors and smart devices
Your friends don't need access to your entire home network and neither do your smart lights and doorbells.
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2025
Law enforcement has asked the public to assist in the search by reviewing doorbell or security camera footage and reporting any potential tips or sightings.
—Jordan King
shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 June 2025
Orlando Sentinel From training to triumph: four service dogs gifted to disabled owners in Orlando
The dogs can aid their owners by alerting them to sounds like alarms, doorbells and sirens.
—Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 June 2025
Tucked down a side road, the building was anonymous, without a doorbell or a knocker, its purpose betrayed only by a slight smear of reddish paint on the front door.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2025
Law enforcement has asked the public to assist in the search by reviewing doorbell or security camera footage and reporting any potential tips or sightings.
—Jordan King
shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 June 2025
Orlando Sentinel From training to triumph: four service dogs gifted to disabled owners in Orlando
The dogs can aid their owners by alerting them to sounds like alarms, doorbells and sirens.
—Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 June 2025
Tucked down a side road, the building was anonymous, without a doorbell or a knocker, its purpose betrayed only by a slight smear of reddish paint on the front door.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
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“Doorbell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doorbell. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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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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