Example Sentences

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The door-handles of my old Berlin apartment are beautiful.

From BBC • May 31, 2010

They're a little worn - like the lovely door-handles in our home - but by wind and weather rather than hands.

From BBC • May 31, 2010

I saw the witch who had let him in quietly putting the chain back on the door-handles.

From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl

She was bending forward and fixing some sort of a metal chain round the two door-handles.

From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl

They took them in in equal silence—stamped leather, silver door-handles and rails, cut velvet, plate-glass, nickel, bronze, hammered iron, and the rare woods of the continent inlaid.

From Captains Courageous by Kipling, Rudyard