How to Use doorman in a Sentence

doorman

noun
  • Plus, a doorman and key access give her a sense of security.
    Sami Sparber, Axios, 12 Oct. 2024
  • The doorman reserves the elevator for us and the whole ordeal takes less than 45 minutes.
    R29 Team, refinery29.com, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The doorman of his building stepped in to assist, returning the not-so-quick mammal to a location at the end of the street, per the AP.
    Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Jackie Elegant is happily locking down her dream home — a Gold Coast condo with a doorman — if not her dream mortgage rate.
    Sami Sparber, Axios, 28 Sep. 2024
  • The memoir touches on doorman classics—the upstairs-downstairs dynamic, the uniforms, the reading of residents’ mailers, the end-of-year tip—but the doormen are the stars.
    Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
  • When the doorman tried to escort the man outside, the man punched him.
    Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 24 Feb. 2022
  • The doorman marched me around back to the service entrance.
    David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2017
  • The killer was greeted by the doorman and caught on videotape.
    Ron Charles, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
  • And the doorman from Flash Dancers topless club, still open at 4, came out with the cape and put it on me.
    Andy Hoglund, Vulture, 1 Feb. 2022
  • But, Klingerman said, the doorman would not let them up.
    Elena Santa Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 21 May 2024
  • The building has a 24-hour doorman, on-site super, and use of a pool, steam rooms and saunas.
    New York Times, 24 Dec. 2020
  • It’s so boutique, in fact, that there’s not even a doorman.
    Emma Reynolds, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • There was a building with a doorman who got sick; a crew deep-cleaned the lobby.
    Michael Schulson, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2020
  • As a result, doormen are no longer allowed to give the dogs bones.
    Susan Lehman, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2020
  • Gift yourself, gift a friend — and heck, gift your doorman.
    Sarah Han, Allure, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Yosvany Rodríguez Muñoz, a 37-year-old doorman, is one of the lucky ones.
    The Economist, 10 Apr. 2021
  • The doorman can’t stop them from going to their apartment.
    New York Times, 26 June 2021
  • The crew built the Dagobah swamp, doormen dressed as Stormtroopers and drinks were served in light-up cups that looked like lightsabers.
    Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 May 2018
  • The story of the ex-doorman, Dino Sajudin, hasn't been told until now.
    Jake Pearson and Jeff Horwitz, Cincinnati.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The story of the ex-doorman, Dino Sajudin, hasn’t been told until now.
    Jake Pearson and Jeff Horwitz, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The building has full-time doorman service and just nine units in total.
    Emma Reynolds, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The Saint Paul Hotel doesn’t need to drop names – the doorman’s stovepipe hat and hotel’s ornate decor speak volumes – but what the heck.
    Melanie D.g. Kaplan / Washington Post, Twin Cities, 10 Oct. 2019
  • At Congress an aide says the plenary is closed because the doormen and other staff didn’t show up to work.
    Gabriel Shinohara, Bloomberg.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Chapman makes no attempt to flee; he is disarmed by the doorman.
    Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 28 Apr. 2021
  • The building has a doorman, a bike storage area and a landscaped roof terrace.
    Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2022
  • And Studio 54 doorman Marc Benecke as his witness, looking the part above the neck went a long way.
    Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Hiram returns home to find the doorman murdered and body of Small Fry in his office.
    Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 May 2018
  • They were armed with a sledgehammer and a crowbar and showed the doorman pictures of Mousavi and Ronaghi.
    Babak Dehghanpisheh, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2022
  • On Joe Cain Day the venue had a doorman enforcing mask use, Thompson said.
    al, 19 Feb. 2021
  • This time, people form a line to a door guarded by a young doorman holding a stack of stickers.
    Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2024

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