Sentence examples for doorkeeper from inspiring English sources
'doorkeeper' is a valid word in written English
You can use it to refer to someone who controls access to an area, often located at or near a door. For example: "The doorkeeper checked everyone's identification before they entered the building."
noun
The person in charge of an entryway, sometimes just a doorman, sometimes something more.
He said: "The DUP will act as the doorkeeper for democracy within the talks process.
"His philosophy was to cultivate everybody from the doorkeeper up," Mr McDonald remarks.
Within the Gothic halls of the Palace of Westminster, the Speaker is a mini-monarch, escorted to the chamber by a mace-bearer, a doorkeeper and a chaplain, while a policeman shouts at people to remove their hats.
The placated sultan renamed him Mehmed Efendi, appointed him his personal doorkeeper, and provided him with a generous allowance.
Examples are a conversation between Arthur and the doorkeeper Glewlwyd Mightygrasp; a monologue of Ysgolan the Cleric; verses in praise of Geraint, son of Erbin; and a fragment of what may be an early native version of the Trystan and Esyllt (Tristan and Iseult) story.
She threatens the doorkeeper: "If thou openest not that I may enter I will smash the doorpost and unhinge the gate.
The medieval English chronicler Roger of Wendover describes in his Flores historiarum how an archbishop from Greater Armenia, visiting England in 1228, reported that there was in Armenia a man formerly called Cartaphilus who claimed he had been Pontius Pilate's doorkeeper and had struck Jesus on his way to Calvary, urging him to go faster.
She had dreaded becoming the hostess of the President's House, saying that she would "rather be a doorkeeper in the House of God than live in that palace".
The Doorkeepers must have been acting as Japanese carriage packers do in the Tokyo rush-hour.
Not having the yeoman cooks and doorkeepers and grooms who would have attended the kitchen in George's day, Meltonville was unable to attempt all twenty-one dishes on King George's menu.
Just before 6 a.m. on Thursday, as the demonstrators began to stir before a major downtown protest, the two men in plainclothes came to the church door and asked the doorkeepers if they could use the bathroom, according to Mr. Karpen.
