door knocker
Example Sentences
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A door knocker for a Rockville, Md., apartment recalls a horseshoe crab.
From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2016
Patton, a volunteer door knocker, is among thousands in an impressively regimented and precise operation that has been working the state for months.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2015
What, I wonder, would she make of it if the Queen came tapping at the traditional dolphin door knocker asking to look at her old home?
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2015
Complete with a door knocker, plaster mouldings and sash windows, it looks as if a complete house has been tipped over and buried in the ground.
From The Guardian • Jun. 26, 2013
“Nicely phrased,” replied the eagle door knocker, and the door swung open.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
