doorstop
noun
door·stop
ˈdȯr-ˌstäp 
1
: a usually rubber-tipped device attached to a wall or floor to prevent damaging contact between an opened door and the wall
2
: a device (such as a wedge or weight) for holding a door open
Examples of doorstop in a Sentence
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Donald Clarke’s doorstop Wishing on the Moon (1994) is a solid, fog-clearing biography.
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Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
This is not the Francis Ford Coppola story, meaning a conventional doorstop biography of a great man.
—David Kamp, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
The solo show—Teller’s largest to date—spans his nearly four-decade career as a fine-art prankster and go-to photographer for fashion brands and doorstop periodicals.
—Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
Another pair of bricks there has been commandeered as a doorstop.
—Briana Miller | , oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
Make room in your beach bag for Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting, a doorstop of a novel charting the long arc of a captivating Irish family’s triumphs and tragedies.
—Town & Country, 13 June 2023
The bricks at Oregon Contemporary are definitively being used as doorstops.
—Briana Miller | , oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
Attorneys general have been photographed with towering stacks of documents, hoisting doorstop publications that are the product of years of research and interviews.
—Ruth Graham, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
Stephen King, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, those dudes wrote doorstops.
—New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
This is not the Francis Ford Coppola story, meaning a conventional doorstop biography of a great man.
—David Kamp, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
The solo show—Teller’s largest to date—spans his nearly four-decade career as a fine-art prankster and go-to photographer for fashion brands and doorstop periodicals.
—Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2023
Another pair of bricks there has been commandeered as a doorstop.
—Briana Miller | , oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
Make room in your beach bag for Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting, a doorstop of a novel charting the long arc of a captivating Irish family’s triumphs and tragedies.
—Town & Country, 13 June 2023
The bricks at Oregon Contemporary are definitively being used as doorstops.
—Briana Miller | , oregonlive, 11 Sep. 2023
Attorneys general have been photographed with towering stacks of documents, hoisting doorstop publications that are the product of years of research and interviews.
—Ruth Graham, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
Stephen King, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, those dudes wrote doorstops.
—New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
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“Doorstop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doorstop. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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