(n.) The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.
Example Sentences:
(1) He has his job to do and he has to do it the way he thinks best.” On Saturday night, in a sign of the growing concern at the top of the party about the affair, one shadow cabinet member told the Observer : “The issue is already echoing back at us on the doorsteps.” At all levels, there was despair that the furore had turned the spotlight on to Labour’s difficulties as a time when the party had hoped to take advantage of the Tories’ second byelection loss at the hands of Ukip.
(2) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
(3) Grayling asks a Labour householder on one suburban doorstep. "
(4) I think I would've benefited from more time on the doorstep."
(5) Back on the doorstep is The Pilot , a music-themed pub where you can eat, too.
(6) Years ago the concept of homelessness was drug addicts and bag ladies – now there is a new wave of homelessness since the economy dived – people who are older, had savings and a home, but lost their jobs and their health insurance and finally ran out of money and turned up on our doorstep with a suitcase.
(7) In a Telegraph article, written days before a published version in which he backed leaving, Johnson wrote of the EU: “This is a market on our doorstep, ready for further exploitation by British firms.
(8) Bernardi also attacked Kevin Rudd for changing his position on same-sex marriage, saying he was a “conviction politician of convenience” who used to deliver doorstep interviews outside a church.
(9) Meanwhile, on the doorsteps of the Margate district of Cliftonville, one of Kent’s most deprived areas and historically a Labour stronghold, Scobie, the party’s 25-year-old candidate, was working hard last to consolidate core support in what he characterised a three way marginal where he could emerge as the “anti-Ukip” choice.
(10) It is a chain of ragged destitution, on the doorstep – sometimes literally – of phenomenal wealth generation.
(11) But in the end, immigration has proved the most successful argument on the doorstep for the party’s campaigners, especially given confirmation that Cameron has failed in his promise to get net migration down to the tens of thousands.
(12) I was dropped right on my doorstep in Blackheath, south London, at 4am.
(13) On a doorstep in Dewsbury, Dorothy Hague promised Sherriff her vote.
(14) Because the nastiness on our doorstep has piled too high for too long, and I just want to get out of the house.
(15) The Debt on our Doorstep pressure group said that many entering "pay lending" or short-term loan agreements become locked into debt because of the rate of interest incurred.
(16) Clegg said: "I think we have to deal with the emergency on our doorstep, rather than tilting at windmills."
(17) Big names frighten them on their doorsteps, oozing bogus bonhomie.
(18) It is too big to leave,” was a common view on the doorstep.
(19) He now sells over 2,000 litres of milk each week on doorsteps, in restaurants and it’s sold at the local shops for £1.20 a litre under the label Maple Field Milk .
(20) I’m usually Labour” is an ominously noncommittal doorstep refrain: Jeremy Corbyn’s name often follows.
Doorway
Definition:
(n.) The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.
Example Sentences:
(1) Council chiefs are being urged to launch an investigation after metal spikes were installed outside a luxury block of London flats to deter homeless people from sleeping in the doorway.
(2) Educating the government and the public, about the need for more and better suitable housing, more vocational opportunities, fewer physical barriers such as high curbs, stairs and narrow doorways that prevent access to public and commercial buildings and trying to encourage positive attitudes toward the disabled will help bring the paraplegic out of isolation and allow him to develop a full, active life.
(3) The march was held just ten weeks after Wallace stood in a schoolhouse doorway to prevent black students from going to college, and little more than two weeks before four black girls were bombed to death in Birmingham, Alabama, during Sunday school.
(4) I grab him and the camera, and drag him into a doorway.” However, during a discussion with Hamptons TV in 2009 , he said that an unnamed soundman had tried to grab the camera after O’Reilly had removed the tape from the device and escaped with the footage and the cameraman.
(5) Simmons was struck by the cravat, but also by a third man hovering in the doorway during viewings.
(6) This beachfront hotel goes for colonial arches (windows, doorways, corridors), carved wood and wrought iron in a big way; minimalists are advised to focus instead on the comfy, high-ceilinged rooms and abundant ocean views at a price rarely found on the beach.
(7) But it is hard not to see that, since then, the vices have got worse: a little further up the road Somalian prostitutes proposition pedestrians at all hours; a little further down, past beggars who cry "I'm hungry", young men crouch in doorways doubled over with needles in hand.
(8) So I crouched down and tried to move backwards across the doorway.
(9) That's the Bank of England's big problem – not that there are women on its steps, or a petition in its doorway; but that they're not going to go away.
(10) Master and pet inserted themselves directly behind the family as they crossed the road and made their way down the street in a phalanx of photographers, and so that’s how Andrew Mitchell made his exit from the most notorious day of his life: ducking into a doorway, buffeted by strangers, with an angry dog headbutting his calves.
(11) I rushed home to find burning newspaper in the doorway, and was able to stamp it out with my feet,” the 27-year-old recalls.
(12) For us, a new Bowie album was not just a collection of songs, it was a doorway to new images, books, art, cultural references and sounds.
(13) If you're going to cleanse the country of indigents, then you may as well do it all in one go: clear out the squatters, get rid of all the "beds in sheds", demolish unofficial Gypsy sites, hustle the rough sleepers out of doorways, and sweep away anyone a bit weird, like Anne Naysmith, 75, who slept in her old car, and built a charming garden in a car park corner next to a railway embankment, until TfL came along and mowed down the shelter, flowers and fruit trees.
(14) The graffiti star was dubbed "the female Banksy" when she gained more widespread public attention in 2011 with the appearance of her striking image of the late Amy Winehouse on a Camden Town doorway.
(15) By 6pm, planks of wood had been screwed over the empty doorway, with a notice urging fans to visit the piece at the club by paying a donation.
(16) North of the Seine, the scantily clad prostitutes huddling in the doorways of Saint Denis and Baron Haussman's grand boulevards are feistily holding out against the creeping gentrification of their traditional turf.
(17) I am no prude but often when I am walking home I see guys staggering about peeing randomly into gardens, bus stops, doorways.
(18) I grab him and the camera, and drag him into a doorway.
(19) There's no sign, just an open doorway and a flight of stairs; so in you go, and carry on upwards, past the main salon to the breezy top floor.
(20) • Doubles from $80 B&B, +51 84 222237, andenesalcielo.com Rumi Punku, Cusco Facebook Twitter Pinterest On Cusco’s picturesque Choquecheca Street, this hotel is built on an old Inca temple site and is entered via an ancient stone doorway ( rumi punku is Quechua for stone door).