The phrase "a table by the door" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the location of a table in relation to a door, often in contexts like interior design, directions, or event planning.
Example: "We placed a table by the door to welcome guests as they arrive."
Alternatives: "a table near the entrance" or "a table next to the door."
At a table by the door, Juan Tintos Funcke, the secretary of tourism for Baja, sat with his wife.
Dominique sprawls under a table by the door, Samantha at her desk, Brandon between two bookshelves by the window.
Ms. Lahman said the woman each time reached for the purse on the back of the same chair — at a table by the door.
Ms. Lahman said the woman each time reached for a purse on the back of the same chair -- at a table by the door.
But the basket of metal bolts on a table by the door at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, on East 85th Street in Manhattan, made clear that this sale was somehow different.
A table by the door displays a reproduction of UConn's most recent N.C.A.A. trophy and bottles of Geno's marinara, inspired by the sauce Mr. Auriemma's 83-year-old mother makes.
It is the rough equivalent of a black man being thrown out of a restaurant after having berated an indifferent maître d' for showing him to a table by the kitchen door, all the while declaring what everybody is supposed to know: this is what happens to a black man in America.
At his grandparent's spacious home here, where he was raised, a small forest of crosses stands on a table by the front door, and one wall of the living room is filled with more than a dozen decorative crosses of wrought iron, ceramic and wood.
The Guy R. Brewer Democratic Club in St. Albans, Queens, was empty the afternoon the mayor made his announcement, except for three party foot soldiers registering voters at a folding table by the door and a grand old man of Queens Democratic politics, the former city councilman Archie Spigner, sitting in the back with a friend from the local community board.
Another night, on my father's 70th birthday, 12 of us were celebrating at a big table by the door when Sean Connery walked in.
He bolted the door and put his spoon, needle and dropper on a table by the bed.
