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How to use doorstep in a sentence

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Soon, gris-gris in the form of roosters' heads began to appear on his doorstep.
Mr Newton was not to know that the builder on his doorstep had a string of convictions for deception and misleading customers.
He should have gone up to London and camped on the doorstep until he got the document.
It's amazing how you can be completely oblivious to something on your own doorstep.
My friend had met Mr Dowd before when he had turned up at her doorstep canvassing for votes.
They are interrupted by a knock on the door and Val is horrified to find a bailiff officer on her doorstep.
Now it seems issues can start in the sticks and land on Westminster's doorstep, fully formed.
Every once in a while, it's a good idea to turn away from world events and take a look at the issues on one's doorstep.
We spoke on the phone once or twice and the next thing I knew she landed on my doorstep.
The following morning brought Savadini to their doorstep, complete with several carpet bags and a number of spare robes.
I'm hoping that my cartoon strip will inspire readers both young and not-so-young to find out more about the history on their doorstep.
Meanwhile, young families in York and its outlying villages have little hope of buying a home on their doorstep.
There is an area of outstanding natural beauty right on the doorstep and it is blocked off because of the dangerous stepping stones.
Using my psychic power, I opened the door, expecting another village chit to be standing on my doorstep, shivering with more than cold.
Just the thought of fresh bunches of coriander, basil, chives, spring onions and mint at my doorstep makes me all giddy with excitement.
Woodhatch residents no longer need to travel to Redhill for advice as an outreach surgery will be operating soon on their doorstep.
Send her to the doorstep with the sweeties on Hallowe'en and she'll scare the bejaysus out of the kiddies.
The Government has pledged to crack down on unscrupulous doorstep salesmen who swindle vulnerable pensioners out of thousands of pounds.
But pawnbroking, cheque conversion and doorstep loans have been booming in recent years, feeding off poverty and inequality.
It's in peak condition and with a facility like this on our own doorstep, it would be a pity not to use it.
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Examples from Classical Literature
And there is no retainer so devoted as he who is allowed to sit on the doorstep.
He paused to pick up some yellow jasmine leaves which had withered in the warmth of the May sun and fallen on the doorstep.
They wrangled on the doorstep until it was late, but she would not yield to him.
Half an hour later, lonely Laura, discovering the girls on their doorstep, amused herself by sicking the dog at them.
So on he sped to the woody heights of Kyllene, and stood on the doorstep of Maia's cave.
Three men were sitting on the doorstep of a house, two playing guitars, one playing the bandurria.
A Houdan cockerel with bedraggled speckly plumage and a ragged crest hanging over one eye struts from doorstep to doorstep.
His trusty sword, in its steel scabbard, strikes clanking on the doorstep.
Josie was lingering on the doorstep in an agony of untrained coquetry.
Graham Smith who virtually lives on Ravensthorpe's doorstep caught steadily on a floating line and a green and black tin head.
Steenie stood smiling and undecided on the slab in front of the doorstep.
I'll camp on the very doorstep of Patty's Place and you won't be able to go out or come in without falling over my spook.
You'll catch a sunstroke down there and die on my doorstep perhaps.
But standing on the wooden doorstep of the little house was le Moyne.
They walked in silence until they reached the very doorstep of the manse.
I couldn't have stayed much more than half an hour with them anyway, but still I would have liked to get over the old doorstep.
He entered the neglected yard, stationed himself on the doorstep of the main entrance, and, opening his show-box, began to play.
One sat on the doorstep learning a lesson, but that was only Artie Jones.
Montmorency had invited two other dogs to come and see him off, and they were whiling away the time by fighting on the doorstep.
Did you hear the Brahma rooster crowing on the doorstep, mother?
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