street door
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Street by street, door by door, they ask tenants about the cost of rent, the percentage of their income they pay toward rent and about whether tenants have faced any harassment from their landlords.
From Los Angeles Times
Before we got to the street door, Startop was cheerily calling Drummle “old boy,” as if nothing had happened.
From Literature
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“Even before Covid, Ukraine — and this mission — were pulled into matters, and that should not have been the case. And one thing that’s very important is that politics stops at the C Street door, and that’s very much the case now.”
From New York Times
Bootblacks opened the street door and each one Bill called over and started to work on Mike.
From Literature
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His attorney general, Edmund Jennings Randolph, cleared up that false impression when he knocked on Washington’s High Street door in Philadelphia one day to say that Randolph’s own slaves had familiarized themselves with that law and were packing up to leave.
From Washington Post
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