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How to use the word doorway in a Sentence?

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I didn't think the youngest would be able to do it. She was seven at the time of the trial, but justice demanded that I try her on the stand if I wanted to get a conviction on that count. Six minutes she stood in the doorway sobbing.

Attorney Lara Roetzel

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I entered through a doorway, kind of looked around a bit.

Thomas Robertson.Jacob Fracker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you think about it, making entry -- announced or unannounced -- is very high risk, you're going through a' fatal funnel,' where the bad guy could fire rounds blindly at a doorway and have a chance of hitting us. If we don't have to go through, we don't want to. Who benefits from making an entry ? The answer is the bad guy. So we'd say, that's a tactically unsound decision.

Thor Eells

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It makes people feel uncomfortable, but discomfort can be a doorway to learning more about ourselves and having greater connection with each other.

Thenmozhi Soundararajan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Death is a doorway to God. We celebrate Life and mourn Death....shouldn’t we reverse it?

AiR Atman in Ravi

added by AIR
3 years ago

We just got a sheet under the doorway [asking] if we need prescription medications in the next seven days, there's tons of issues. I mean, we all have dirty clothes.

Kari Kolstoe

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Had this individual made it through the doorway of Ned Peppers with that level of weaponry, there would have been catastrophic injuries and a loss of life.

Chief Richard Biehl

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Death is an illusion, life is a dream and we are the creator of our own imagination. The present moment is the only moment available to us and is the doorway to all moments.

Thích Nhất Hạnh

added by lofreire
4 years ago

This is a very, very critical step because this potentially could open the doorway for a number of other deals to begin working their way through the process.

Peter Alexander

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

One of the number one reactions to PTSD is isolation. People just withdraw, out of fear or that they do n’t fit in, i had a guy who did the program last year, his wife came up to me and gave me a hug and said, ‘ thank you, he has n’t left the house since winter. ’ [ Veterans to Farmers ] is just opening the doorway for these men and women.

Rich Murphy

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows & the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years.”

Audrey Hepburn

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

Make success out of failures as failure is a stepping stone to success Make your dream your plan, it always works. Mistakes indicate that efforts were made. More than instructions, students need GUIDANCE. Most important asset for you is your learning. Learn as much while you can. My Question is do you have the WILL to chase them? never give up. It takes time for great things to shape up. Never let go of your desire, as they are the only driving force. Never let your curiosity die. It is the doorway to creativity.

Scholar Talks

added by scholartalk
6 years ago

What I saw step through the doorway was like a gleaming figure -- very special, brilliant, to me, she didn't seem to walk. She almost floated in slow-motion.

Douglas Kirkland

Found on CNN
6 years ago

A doorway is an ambiguous phenomenon, a liminal spot in a person’s life. A door can be a choice, a possibility, a protection or an aperture to new-fangled values. It can mean a barrier, a prison or a gate to freedom. It can, however, vanish in the mist of unawareness by lack of social concern. At that moment, our freedom has become our jail and we feel locked up in our own liberty. Any exit has waned: the doorway has been absorbed in the stupor of our infatuation. ( “In the doorway” )

Erik Pevernagie

added by anonymous
8 years ago

We'd like to thank the person who anonymously placed the bag in the doorway of her mother's residence, but we would also like that person to come forward and cooperate with authorities as to how on earth this could have happened.

Attorney Thomas Eoannou

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway.

Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
8 years ago

I don't like going backwards, i like going forwards so I think rather than reintroducing old methods I think what would help greatly is if everybody seriously put their minds to doing whatever they can to encourage negotiations. That is the doorway to the future.

Suu Kyi

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

“I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it.”

Sophie Scholl

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Blaming none, disrespecting nothing is the doorway to Unity Consciousness.

Amit Ray

added by anonymous
11 years ago

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Helen Keller

added by anonymous
13 years ago

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Helen Keller

added by anonymous
13 years ago

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

Freya Stark

added by anonymous
14 years ago

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.

Daisaku Ikeda

added by anonymous
14 years ago

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Helen Keller

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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