1
: the opening that a door closes
especially
: an entrance into a building or room
2
Examples of doorway in a Sentence
Please don't block the doorway.
She stepped through the doorway.
He stood in the doorway, wondering if he should go in.
Homeless people sleep in the doorways of the shops.
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Jackson took me down through a small doorway into a large room with an earthen floor.
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Alann B. Steen, Outdoor Life, 10 July 2025
Like Jim Carrey leaving Seahaven, Cudi ascends into the clouds through a doorway in the sky on the cover of his project.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 10 July 2025
Independence Day occasionally strays into the megalo-melodramatic, and never more so than when a dog makes a slow-motion leap into a doorway just milliseconds before a wall of flames nearly engulfs him.
—Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 3 July 2025
Decker watches from the doorway, his hands on his hips, stiff, still.
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 27 June 2025
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Alann B. Steen, Outdoor Life, 10 July 2025
Like Jim Carrey leaving Seahaven, Cudi ascends into the clouds through a doorway in the sky on the cover of his project.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 10 July 2025
Independence Day occasionally strays into the megalo-melodramatic, and never more so than when a dog makes a slow-motion leap into a doorway just milliseconds before a wall of flames nearly engulfs him.
—Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 3 July 2025
Decker watches from the doorway, his hands on his hips, stiff, still.
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 27 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for doorway
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“Doorway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doorway. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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doorway
noun
door·way
-ˌwā 
1
: the opening or passage that a door closes
2
: a means of reaching or gaining something
the doorway to success
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