How To Use Doorknob In A Sentence
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It's simple for a thief to break glass panels and then reach in and open a doorknob from the inside.
HOME SECURITY BASICS
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As soon as she laid her hand on the doorknob the door opened from the inside and she jumped back with a start.
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Being five inches in diameter, the doorknobs were more than twice the size of regular glass doorknobs of the same period and style.
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The only distinguishing feature was a silver doorknob, blanketed with a thick layer of dust.
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Wood bannisters and staircases, rooms with curved windows, doorknobs that were made out of glass.
August 2006
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I look up the central stairs to a row of white doors with antiquated doorknobs.
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The doorknobs' roses or rosettes are simply cast and machined brass discs with a ribbed outside border having a three-inch diameter, twice the size of the normal knob rose.
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She turned the giant clear doorknob on the heavy front door and forcefully pulled it towards herself.
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From 1898 until he died in 1927, he anatomized Old Paris right down to the doorknobs -- the book is the exact size of a Parisian cobblestone -- but as arranged, neighborhood by neighborhood, the photos comprise one of the great works of art of the last two centuries.
All I Want For Christmas...
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He shook his head and we both watched as someone tried to turn the doorknob and push the door open.
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She reached out a shaking hand, ready to turn the doorknob and open the door before her.
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The finished product, which they moved into in 1995, includes marble from Brazil, China, Greece and Italy as well as hand-carved moldings from six different workshops and doorknobs from Paris.
Mediterranean, Vegas-Style
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She didn't even turn her head as the doorknob turned and the door was pushed open.
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He placed his hand on the doorknob to open the door.
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Keep it sad around here for Tommy’s sake, he said, and went back to the lobby, where he pulled the doorknob from the wall.
Least Resistance
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Vincent snorted, and turned the doorknob into molten slag once it had swung shut again.
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We then walked through an old wooden door with huge black doorknobs.
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However, the researchers also found more than twice the number of bachelorette front doorknobs were contaminated with bacteria as compared with bachelor doorknobs.
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THE BOY Below the doorknob was a filigreed silver plate and a keyhole.
The Waste Lands
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You can buy extended handles for doorknobs and stove controls, gadgets to open car doors and under-the-counter jar openers that grip a jar's lid as you physically turn the jar.
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Concierge Auctions The finished product, which they moved into in 1995, includes marble from Brazil, China, Greece and Italy as well as hand-carved moldings from six different workshops and doorknobs from Paris.
Mediterranean, Vegas-Style
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Then I heard the twist of the doorknob and the door shutting slowly.
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On the doorknob was a bloody hand print, there was also a trail of drag marks lagging behind it.
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Everything had been renovated in a who-cares-how-much-it-costs kind of way, right down to the doorknobs and mahogany-cabineted kitchen with Gagenot stove, Thermidor oven, Sub-Zero fridge, and ultraviolet-ray-protected windows (yes, there is such a thing).
Former King of Cool, Gene Pressman, Grabs $1.9 Million Town House
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Models for utilitarian pieces such as doorknobs, backplates, and drawer pulls are stored in separate boxes from the models for garland appliques, plaques, and figural mounts.
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There's a lamebrained doorknob of a kender off adventuring somewhere, getting himself and those unfortunate enough to be with him into no end of trouble.
Finnegan teoriza la practica de cuerdas
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She clawed the doorknob
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Containing a groove to guide the knob shell and a hole for both the shank to sit into and to allow the spindle to pass into the lock, the rose ensures stable, guided turning of the doorknob.
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I walked towards it, slowly, reaching my hand out to grasp onto the brass doorknob.
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And there are a thousand subtle differences between the doorknobs of a door and a cupboard.
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I smacked my arm into a doorknob really hard, and there's a knot in the muscle of the forearm now.
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He grabbed the doorknob and wrenched the door open.
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Her eyes were hot on Meryl, who relocked the door and wedged the vanity chair under the doorknob.
Radium
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Sucking in a deep breath, he gripped the doorknob and pulled the heavy door open.
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As soon as she laid her hand on the doorknob the door opened from the inside and she jumped back with a start.
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The jiggle of the doorknob startled him and he reached for his sword.
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Looking up when the doorknob jiggled I panicked, jerking up and flushing the toilet quickly.
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Many campaigns choose is to print small doorhanger pieces that can easily be affixed to doorknobs and screen doors of your high-turnout precincts.
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Travel with a childproof doorknob cover so if the room doorknob is round you can use it.
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He opened the door, excused himself to step by a muscley kid in a tracksuit with a gun whose hand was on the doorknob, and walked away down the hall.
Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware
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Ever since she had started reading the book, she couldn't help analyzing doorknobs on every door that she had encountered.
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Childproof doorknobs or latches mounted high on doors help prevent wandering outside.
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I strolled cautiously toward it and twisted the doorknob carefully.
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I kick at the walls on roommate's side and then break a doorknob on the closet door.
The Rules of Attraction
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Much of the detail, interior and exterior, all the way down to doorknobs and inkstands, was designed by Pugin, who prepared detailed drawings by the thousand.
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His fingernails scraped, scratched at the doorknob with urgency.
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One recent day, search crews found an ace of diamonds playing card, a doorknob, a pair of security guard pants, a woman's black wig and a pink toothbrush.
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However, I was so little that the doorknob was eyelevel and it went right into my eye, blackening it.
Partygirl Diary Entry
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I promised to repair the doorknob, but I had never got around to it.
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She froze, one hand gripping the doorknob and the other clutching the shawl tightly to her chest.
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Purchased doorknobs and drawer pulls from specialty hardware store.
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Just when my hand met the cold metal of the doorknob, the door swung open.
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He walked, well I'd like to say walked but it was more of a waddle, to the door and turned the shiny brass doorknob.
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I promised to repair the doorknob, but I had never got round to it.
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And ripened on a dry slop of peanuts, cornflakes and newspaper shavings, moiled between the washer and dryer and shelves of dust-caked soda bottles, the pig that grew tall enough to sniff and lick the doorknob.
Archive 2008-08-01
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A second slab of beef has crawled out of bed and found his doorknob.
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One recent day, search crews found an ace of diamonds playing card, a doorknob, a pair of security guard pants, a woman's black wig and a pink toothbrush.
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When there has been death, hanging clothes from a doorknob would invite misfortune.
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He wrapped his hand around the doorknob of the door and swung it open.
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He jammed a chair under the doorknob and shot himself up with enough heroin to blow the heart out of a draft horse, his mouth rictal when the rush took him.
Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set
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Taking hold of the doorknob Tommy slowly began to open the door.
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I promised to repair the doorknob, but I had never got round to it.
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Most Maori continued to live in wharepuni, and from the 1870s some of these included European materials, such as doorknobs, nails, sawn timber, and glazed windows.
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Doorknob: No one has yet called "doorknob" so it remains the ultimate trump card in this crisis.
Duncan Quirk: The Russia-Ukraine Gas Crisis
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Create unity and smooth the transition from one room to another by placing the same style doorknobs on all the doors of the main rooms.
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The yard was like a landfill, and it looked as though the doorknob hadn't been sanitized in years.
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She froze, one hand gripping the doorknob and the other clutching the shawl tightly to her chest.
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Other highlights include handstitched doorknobs and door levers and a wide range of cabinet pulls and knobs.
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The guards standing on either side of the door grasped the doorknobs and pulled back, clearing a path for the duo.
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In a few long strides, I've grabbed the doorknob and am about to twist the thing off, when I recognize the voice.
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The wrinkled old man seemed to relax, but the deep furrow in his brow didn't lift until she had her hand on the doorknob.
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He heard another knock and the soft sound of a doorknob being turned.
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The doorknob is the homeowner’s property, and pulling particles from that property seizes those particles.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Swiping Doorknobs and the Fourth Amendment:
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With the bolt drawn and one hand on the doorknob, I paused to note the time.
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Other highlights include handstitched doorknobs and door levers and a wide range of cabinet pulls and knobs.
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Walking like a drunkard, Elizabeth made her way to her door and fumbled with the lock on the doorknob while vaguely wondering why the heck it was locked in the first place.
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He reached for the doorknob, but was suddenly jolted with a shock of electricity.
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I was in the middle of one of my passionate rants when the doorknob rattled, followed by a succession of loud knocks.
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Beside the doorknob is a photograph of a halved screw attached to a piece of New Yorker letterhead that reads, "mutilated screw that came out of the MUNICIPAL BUILDING doorknob-see if I can find one to replace it.
The Chronicle
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Though needing to tap doorknobs is slightly weirder than needing to inject insulin.
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Matthew slowed his pace down and reached out, blindly groping around for the cool touch of a doorknob.
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Now, faced with something that had nearly frightened her to death, she took a deep breath, squared her shoulders, and turned the doorknob.
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Nic and I were only trying to use our side of the doorknob to get the caps off two bottles of Heineken.
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Frankly, he looked like he might have an IQ somewhere between 'doorknob' and 'floor wax'.
People/Poetry
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Though she wasn't sure how, she knew it was a hotel; doors were evenly spaced along the walls, old-fashioned doors with hinges and doorknobs.
