Sentence examples for doorframe from inspiring English sources

And don't bang the doorframe with your wheelchair on your way out!

He peers round his doorframe at the departing figure of Black, off to "chap" his neighbour's door.

"To hang an open iron gate to a wooden doorframe is a gross violation," states the design guide, "and one which, when it occurs on the very threshold of a residence, gives but a poor example of the taste which may be expected within".

Having been constructed in a self-pitying rage, there are gaps between the logs, untrue angles, a doorframe angrily nailed to the outside.Mr Vann's brilliance as a writer lies in his willingness to expose everything all the worst that Gary and Irene think of one another, those silent imaginings born of icy fury that can freeze a marriage to death.

Around the niches of Candi Puntadewa are perhaps the earliest surviving examples of the characteristic Javanese doorframe: across its lintel is carved a mask of the Indian Kala monster, which represents time; and down the jambs, as if vomited from his open mouth, run string panels of foliage.

The court heard that a total of two memory cards were found in the house, one in the kitchen and one hidden on top of a doorframe.

"He turned and brought the gun down on me but the barrel hit the doorframe".

Over a doorframe, del Toro had hung a Magic Marker skeleton drawn by his older daughter, Mariana, now fourteen.

If he focussed, if he really concentrated, he could remember the way her head lolled against the doorframe while the engine whined and the car rocked and the slush threw a dark blanket over the windshield every time a truck shot past in the opposite direction.

He ducks reflexively on stepping through the door, as if his head would crack the doorframe, a tall man with dangling hands, a grubby white shirt, and a tie that looks as if it had been used to swab out the deep fryer at McDonald's.

The screen door slapped shut on its spring, the coil lashing the doorframe.