doorkeeper

Example Sentences

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However, the report said a Parliamentary doorkeeper had witnessed the incident.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2022

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

Shanks’s goal, we can infer, was to be doorkeeper to the temple of infamy.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2017

“Welcome to this house, lad,” the doorkeeper said, and without saying more led him through halls and corridors to an open court far inside the walls of the building.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin