doorkeeper

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2022

A doorkeeper came over and said something to him.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 28, 2020

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

The Commensal was out, the doorkeeper did not know where he was or when he would be in.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin