Sentence examples for doorknocker from inspiring English sources

But Linden built the houses for sale with just a doorknocker.

It would not be surprising if N.H.L. Commissioner Gary Bettman, no doubt bracing for the Rangers' trial fallout, followed Stern to the doorknocker at Daddy Dolan's office.

But just as important is the fact that Sumatra Road is a) really close to a tube station, and b) 13 minutes away from Westminster c) is made up of terraces with short pavement-to-doorknocker distances, making it the perfect target for the canvassers.

Cat light switches, cat doorknockers, cat toilet seats, cat tights.

In Unholy Pleasure: The Idea of Social Class (1985), Furbank addressed the shibboleths of a subject in which, for example, the term middle-class is so often reduced to such images as "polished doorknockers, perhaps, or windows with Staffordshire dogs in them and the Guardian on the doorstep".

One of her colleagues, MP for Bassetlaw John Mann, had already written that Labour failed in Bradford West because they had "no Muslim doorknockers, no Urdu speaker, no hijab-wearing woman talking to Muslim women voters".

There are also a striking number of Victorian doorknockers, hardly surprising given what Dickens once wrote in Sketches by Boz: "Whenever we visit a man for the first time, we contemplate the features of his knocker with the greatest curiosity, for we well know, that between the man and his knocker, there will inevitably be a greater or less degree of resemblance and sympathy".

John Mann, the Labour MP for Bassetlaw, recalling election day itself, concluded that "what was particularly disconcerting was having no Muslim doorknockers, no Urdu speaker, no hijab-wearing woman talking to Muslim women voters.