How to Use doorway in a Sentence

doorway

noun

• She stepped through the doorway.
• Please don't block the doorway.
• Homeless people sleep in the doorways of the shops.
• He stood in the doorway, wondering if he should go in.
• There are no stand-in-the-doorway-and-block-out-the-sun guys.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2021
• Place it over the front doorway or twist it around the porch rail.
  — Stephanie Osmanski, Southern Living, 10 Mar. 2024
• Lo asked from the doorway of his home in the east San Jose foothills.
  — Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 26 May 2024
• His left arm got snagged in the doorway when the plane lurched up.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
• So, Ethan moved to the doorway to make room for the toddler.
  — Darran Simon, CNN, 10 Feb. 2020
• This was with the kitchen doorway sealed off and the window closed, too.
  — Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 30 May 2023
• The bus driver stands in the doorway and blocks the girls’ exit, the video shows.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
• His frame in the doorway warmed the cockles of our heart.
  — Monita Soni, al, 14 Dec. 2020
• Place the tree out of the way of traffic and do not block doorways.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 19 Dec. 2019
• The man in the doorway had broad shoulders and wore bulky gloves.
  — Clare Sestanovich, New Yorker, 13 July 2025
• Deputies then found the door to the main house forced open and one person dead in the doorway.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
• In the video, the bear stands in the doorway and doesn’t venture too far into the store.
  — Michael Hollan, Fox News, 17 Nov. 2021
• The video shows the tip of an object poking out of the doorway.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
• Deputies then found the door to the main house forced open and one person dead in the doorway.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2023
• The video shows the woman then crouching in a doorway with the tank.
  — Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News, 9 June 2022
• Durham can be seen putting his hands up at the doorway.
  — Jodicee Arianna, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2022
• The black flecks swirl as players step through a doorway to fight the boss.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2024
• On the wall next to the doorway is an antique key-wound clock made in 1915.
  — The Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2020
• The wind that broke through the open doorway knocked over a cardboard cutout.
  — Michael McCleary, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Sep. 2020
• In 2006, a man rolled a pig’s head through the doorway of a mosque in Lewiston, Maine.
  — John Gregory Dunne, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
• Don Eaton is a big man, a tall man, wide and high as a doorway.
  — Marc McAndrews, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2020
• The man can be seen lying in the doorway as the crowd applauds.
  — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 16 Apr. 2025
• Stand facing a doorway and grab the right side of the door frame with your right hand.
  — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 8 May 2021
• In the shaky footage, the two men can be seen standing in the doorway, each with a hand on the hammer.
  — Reis Thebault, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2022
• Stepping through the doorway, Stretch’s office comes first.
  — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 7 Aug. 2025
• The footage shows the dog standing in the bedroom doorway, its ears flipped inside out, looking both confused and grumpy.
  — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 July 2025