Use "doorstep" in a sentence
doorstep example sentences
doorstep
1. We shed a tear or two as I left him on the doorstep in West
2. ‘I’m nearly ready!’ I said as I open the door to find Wally on the doorstep, ‘Come on in for a moment, Wally, while I put my shoes on
3. The locals appear to have vanished indoors for the siesta; only a couple of birds perched on a roof and a cat sitting on a doorstep watch us as we make our way towards the waterside
4. True to her husband’s word, a man arrived on the doorstep early the next morning and deposited a number of cardboard boxes in the hallway
5. 'Your father discovered some of these criminal activities were happening on his own doorstep
6. But, with time and the pool of potential brides quickly evaporating, the day came when the last of the country’s suitable young women was due to arrive on his doorstep
7. ‘Did she tell you that Peter virtually sat on her doorstep for a year trying to persuade her to marry him? He is a persistent so-and-so, that brother of mine
8. immediately and told never to darken the doorstep again
9. True to her husband’s word, a man arrived on the doorstep early
10. Her parents slept peacefully through Leona's long goodbye on the doorstep
11. Victorian villas and a row of doorstep cottages take over from the solid urbanity of the slightly more modern, semi-detached conformity where he parked
12. back towards the doorstep a woman stopped next to him
13. Roberto, who was still standing on the doorstep with his
14. the car windows as I waited on the doorstep
15. Without issuing a further farewell, he promptly departed, leaving the trio alone at the doorstep to the king of the underworld
16. a doorstep with him cradled in her lap like an image of the
17. It was just one more in the string of mysteries piling up at their doorstep the further they ventured toward the frontier
18. Sounds like the destiny of this world has come to my doorstep,” Elizabeth said and then added, “So what does this mean to you?” she asked questioningly
19. greeted Danny at the doorstep
20. “Forgive me Billy Boy I don’t know where my manners have gone I am sorry what must you think of me keeping you waiting on the doorstep while I prattled on and you a wounded hero as well”, and her cheeks flushed a rather nice shade of pink
21. And this struggle on the doorstep was so obvious, so clearly
22. Before long they had reached her house and stood on the doorstep
23. There could be a whole armada of ships waiting on the Federation’s doorstep
24. cabin; and for a score of years past Teig had stood on the doorstep
25. Ollie Harris stood on the doorstep, rain dripping from his raincoat onto the quarry tiles in the hallway
26. The inherent ―right‖ to terminate one‘s (own) life as it relates to vague or questionable notions defining quality of life, introduces yet another dubious precedent as it relates to Choice, especially in rather gray areas where the decision to either perpetuate or curtail an individual‘s life has been proxied (sic) at a time when that individual could not possibly foresee the (uncertain) consequences of such decisions entrusted to the care of family members or friends (concealing underlying motives for authorizing such decisions, perhaps) or where a potential illness at some uncertain point in time or that individual‘s problematical reaction (to that illness) could not possibly be understood in advance; that is to say, until that individual is actually sitting on Death‘s doorstep
27. The term ―useful idiot‖ is no longer the exception however the rule among left-wing zealots at home and abroad whose uniform style of pacifism, internalized by guilt feelings, must inevitably encourage Islamic underachievers and malcontents who, given a ―proper‖ forum, would gladly lay their collective failings on the doorstep of Progressive (Western) Cultures
28. You should have seen the look on their faces when I turned up on their doorstep with the heavy mob
29. A small, slightly Chinese looking woman, stood on the doorstep
30. Not that he blamed them for that, when a stranger turned up on their doorstep at eleven o’clock at night asking about their computer and what they knew about a hacked file
31. The man moaned and Freda clasped her hand to her mouth as he was slowly dragged away from the doorstep by something unseen in the garden
32. She was startled to find him on her doorstep, but invited him to join her for a drink on the patio nevertheless
33. I don’t want them turning up on my doorstep
34. even told us that he had arrived on their doorstep a year earlier in a
35. There came the fourth and final time when the Allertons, desperate as usual, needed a roof over their heads, and once again they turned up on the doorstep of Ron and Louise‘s home
36. "You have the whole world at your doorstep here," said John Meredith, with a long breath
37. The town leaders took one look at the five tumen on their doorstep and surrendered without any hesitation
38. A man in his late teens stood on the doorstep, his head jerking
39. “Nothing’s going to happen tonight, but I have his assurance that if I bring the warrant to his doorstep at 7:00 AM, he’ll sign it
40. He felt like a beaten stray that had happened by chance onto the doorstep of a much kinder owner and was treated the way he should have been from the start
41. I take 5 minutes to settle in, check my calendar, and respond to emails before the first mountain of packages arrives on my doorstep
42. They were living together all loved up, then Kate’s on my doorstep asking for a place to stay
43. “Amadis take hold of his heart, I pray, for darkness is at the doorstep and it lies in wait for his innocent blood
44. as the same sounds I’d heard when I slept on the doorstep after
45. Of course, when confronted by the officers on her doorstep Karen denied everything,
46. Anna was watching from her doorstep but couldn't hear anything
47. Emptying my untouched beer into a massive glass ashtray with Australia House emblazoned on the underside in gold, I snuck downstairs where a darkly handsome Spaniard was using his boot in an ineffectual attempt to wake another young man snoring on the doorstep
48. than herself who was bringing disaster to his doorstep
49. Xavier wasn't worried about the drama that was going to come to his doorstep
50. On returning home Stephen tripped on the doorstep, twisting his knee
