1
: the opening that a door closes
especially
: an entrance into a building or room
2
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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And my conversations with Moni kind of opened that attic doorway to go like, Oh my God, look at this dusty old box.
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Greg Evans, Deadline, 2 June 2025
Hood’s son is standing in the doorway, watching the assault of his mother.
—Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Resplendent marbles—a nod to the marbles that line the floors of the Pantheon nearby—flank every doorway, floor, and wall, and an ancient statue of Augustus Caesar from the famed private Torlonia Collection greets visitors at the hotel’s entrance.
—Erica Firpo, AFAR Media, 29 May 2025
But Dugan's lawyers contend in their motion that the doorway Flores-Ruiz used to exit the courtroom leads to the same public hallway a few feet away from the doors to Dugan's courtroom.
—James Hill, ABC News, 14 May 2025
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Greg Evans, Deadline, 2 June 2025
Hood’s son is standing in the doorway, watching the assault of his mother.
—Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Resplendent marbles—a nod to the marbles that line the floors of the Pantheon nearby—flank every doorway, floor, and wall, and an ancient statue of Augustus Caesar from the famed private Torlonia Collection greets visitors at the hotel’s entrance.
—Erica Firpo, AFAR Media, 29 May 2025
But Dugan's lawyers contend in their motion that the doorway Flores-Ruiz used to exit the courtroom leads to the same public hallway a few feet away from the doors to Dugan's courtroom.
—James Hill, ABC News, 14 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for doorway
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“Doorway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doorway. Accessed 10 Jun. 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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