doorsill
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of doorsill
Example Sentences
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“You can find manufacturer recommendations for tire pressures either on the placard attached to the doorsill of the driver’s door or in your car’s manual.”
From Washington Times ● May 11, 2020
After a massive lunch at Ma Maison, in Beverly Hills, with Orson Welles, Jim wrote he had to “brace his boot on the limo’s doorsill to hoist the great director to the curb.”
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2016
She performs the supercanine feat of swimming the River Tweed and reaches English ground, half dead, to drop at the doorsill of two aged, lonely cottagers.
From Time Magazine Archive
He stumbled over the doorsill and blinked happily at the assembled crowd.
From Time Magazine Archive
The workmanship was no less fastidious even at the bottom of the board, near the doorsill, where the two penmen, each in his turn, had obviously lain on their stomachs.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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