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

A doorkeeper came over and said something to him.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 28, 2020

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

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

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2017

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