From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdoorwaydoor‧way /ˈdɔːweɪ $ ˈdɔːr-/ ●●○ noun [countable] DHHthe space where a door opens into a room or buildingin the doorway There was Paolo, standing in the doorway.
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doorway• Large corporations are seeking a doorway to the markets of the Far East.• Around them, laid out flatly, are the 12 apostles each occupying a Moorish arched doorway.• Weatheralls had a shop there - mackintosh people - with a deep doorway.• They are blocking the hotel doorway, demanding signatures or tokens from her, as of right.• I slept in doorways, in hobo jungles, in flophouses, in open pastures.• The townspeople abandoned the doorways and the sidewalks and followed the ambulance up the hill.• The new pseudo-Romanesque façade maintained only the doorway.• Although she was not a tall woman, she had to stoop low to get through the doorway.• The early excavators of Knossos found the large Horns of Consecration lying precisely in front of this doorway.• a wide doorway into the kitchenstanding in the doorway• Most faces have turned to watch the who's just come out of the shrine and is standing in the doorway.• Mr jackson s standing in the doorway.• When I turned round it was my father I saw standing in the doorway.• Celia was standing in the doorway.• He was standing in the doorway of a warehouse, with wheat spilling out around his ankles.• And nobody could get out of the cupboard, because I was standing in the doorway.• She was standing in the doorway and smiling uncertainly. 