doorstep

Example Sentences

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The concert on Saturday will see BTS take the stage on the doorstep of the famed Gyeongbokgung royal palace.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

Not long afterward, federal agents appeared on his doorstep to question him in person.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2026

"He asked me: 'What if this child turns up on our doorstep 13 years later? What are you going to do then? And how are your children going to react?'"

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

Even if the active fighting ends within weeks, the deeper concern is whether a destabilized Iran becomes a permanent source of risk on Dubai’s doorstep.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

She studied me with an extra, bemused curiosity, as if trying to place where I came from and how precisely I’d landed on her doorstep.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama