doormat

Example Sentences

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Merilee Karr, who runs the luxury letting service Under the Doormat, set up NHS Homes a fortnight ago.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2020

Well, the subtitle on “Why Men Love Bitches,” which is “From Doormat to Dreamgirl” explains why that book has a soft space in my heart pretty clearly I think.

From Time • Oct. 8, 2014

Doormat Indiana followed an enormous upset at Missouri two weeks ago with a loss last weekend to Maryland.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2014

He comes to the house of the March Into, who is having substitute tea with the Mad Flatterer and the Doormat.

From Time Magazine Archive

My general name among chance acquaintances is "Old Doormat."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 8, 1892 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir