Sentence examples for doorknob I from inspiring English sources

Hand on the doorknob, I said, "I'm coming out!' (if only I had had the guts to add, Coppers!) and swung the door open very slowly, hands up, palms visible, nothing sudden.

I slipped and hit a doorknob, I swear.

I always conducted my interviews in Chinese, but when it comes to doorknobs, I'm completely lost.

WILLIAM GADDIS: Sometimes I suspect I'm repairing a doorknob because I really would rather not sit down at the typewriter.

I didn't look like the rest of the clientele, and I was far older — even the mom seemed a decade younger than I am — but I still had my hand on the doorknob, so I had to do something.

Finally, I grabbed one of the doorknob covers I thought looked secure.

A doorknob heater I guess?

There was no doorknob, so I tried jamming my pinkie in the keyhole.

Charlie lunged at his side of the door, rattling the doorknob, and I heaved my body against it, listening to him wail, "Mummy!

"I go to my doorknob with my phone and I press the open button," he says.

And upon arriving at the office door where the noose recently hung, she did not flinch but reached for the doorknob with confidence, saying, "I'm just a nerdy academic who likes to be in her office and do research".