doorkeeper

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2022

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

To become a “sworn brother,” Bosch would have had to qualify as one of the four grades of minor orders, which were doorkeeper, reader, acolyte and exorcist.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2016

Their young doorkeeper, Joseph Fry, had died in his bed of the fever.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy