doorkeeper

Example Sentences

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When Lord Young started to respond Lady Bloomfield replied: "I had to send a note to you in order to wake you up by the doorkeeper."

From BBC • Mar. 15, 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

A doorkeeper came over and said something to him.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 28, 2020

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

Among the last to leave the mansion were Paul Jennings and John Sioussat, the White House steward and doorkeeper whom Jennings called “Susé.”

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis