doorkeeper
Example Sentences
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However, the report said a Parliamentary doorkeeper had witnessed the incident.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2022
The Senate post is officially called the sergeant-at-arms and doorkeeper, harking back to its 18th-century duties of keeping members inside the Capitol to conduct the business of government.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2021
I dropped in on a rainy day, feeling suitably furtive, and, having survived the close scrutiny of the doorkeeper, felt duty bound to partake of Dorothy Parker, a gin from Williamsburg.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019
The zealous doorkeeper opens the big front door sparingly to keep out humidity, and only long enough to let visitors sneak quickly out.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2019
He realized quickly the strange doorkeeper resembled certain of the Fair Folk he had once seen in Eiddileg’s kingdom; only this individual seemed in a woeful state of disrepair.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
