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
While Judy was catching a nap in her dressing room, Mickey planted a smoke-pot at the doorsill, bawled "FIRE!"
From Time Magazine Archive
The threat began as early as 1891-1902, when Egypt erected a stone dam at the Nile's first cataract, bringing the water to the temple's doorsill.
From Time Magazine Archive
Doc was a pure scientist and incapable of superstition and yet when he came in late one night and found a line of white flowers across the doorsill he had a bad time of it.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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