Sentence examples for doorjamb from inspiring English sources

Carved on the stone doorjamb of one arch is a famous relief of a warrior wearing the characteristically Hittite short kilt and conical helmet.

They hang on to a rusty horseshoe, permanently nailed to the doorjamb by my grandparents, which provides a toehold for their elongated bodies.

She and Connie regularly made him stand against the doorjamb of Connie's bedroom in the hope of finding an increase in his modest stature.

A half-finished, double-breasted blazer hung from a doorjamb.

"I'm very interested in talk," he said after a pause in which he had been propped against his doorjamb reading his pamphlet in dead silence.

He then lines up the dead bees on the Nursery's doorjamb, facing outward, their dry little feet affixed with rubber cement so they won't drift.

The prime minister was better in the Q&A, particularly on the health service and disabilities (conversely, areas where his party lags Labour), but the overall impression was of a man who would much rather have been somewhere else unsurprisingly, perhaps, given his fingernails-in-the-doorjamb reluctance to participate in a debate.

The latter consists of two colossal doorjambs that support a monolithic lintel.

The labourers were organized into gangs: skilled workers cut granite for the columns, architraves, doorjambs, lintels, and casing blocks; masons and other craftsmen dressed, polished, and laid the blocks and probably erected ramps to drag the stones into place.

Mud brick and wood were the standard materials for houses and palaces throughout the Dynastic period; stone was used occasionally for such architectural elements as doorjambs, lintels, column bases, and windows.

"Traficant is the only one I can think of who went out hanging on to the lintels and doorjambs," Sherman said.