1
: the opening that a door closes
especially
: an entrance into a building or room
2
Synonyms
Examples of doorway in a Sentence
Please don't block the doorway.
She stepped through the doorway.
He stood in the doorway, wondering if he should go in.
Homeless people sleep in the doorways of the shops.
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In the short clip, the 6-foot, 400-lb. alligator appeared to slowly approach a dog statue in the home's yard before making its way up the porch to the doorway.
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Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 22 Jan. 2025
Daniel Hodges, one of the officers who was injured on Jan. 6 after being pinned in a doorway of the Capitol and crushed, said Mr. Trump’s whitewashing of Jan. 6 was necessary to preserve his supporters’ belief in their own goodness and patriotism.
—Jonathan Swan, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
Capitol surveillance video footage showed Pacheco standing in the doorway on the Upper West Terrace of the Capitol around 2:37 p.m., the affidavit said.
—Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2025
The brick likely made its way to Christopher Street in 1930, when the building, originally a nineteenth-century stable, got its brick-and-stucco façade, with arched doorways.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 22 Jan. 2025
Daniel Hodges, one of the officers who was injured on Jan. 6 after being pinned in a doorway of the Capitol and crushed, said Mr. Trump’s whitewashing of Jan. 6 was necessary to preserve his supporters’ belief in their own goodness and patriotism.
—Jonathan Swan, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
Capitol surveillance video footage showed Pacheco standing in the doorway on the Upper West Terrace of the Capitol around 2:37 p.m., the affidavit said.
—Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2025
The brick likely made its way to Christopher Street in 1930, when the building, originally a nineteenth-century stable, got its brick-and-stucco façade, with arched doorways.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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“Doorway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doorway. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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doorway
noun
door·way
-ˌwā 
1
: the opening or passage that a door closes
2
: a means of reaching or gaining something
the doorway to success
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