"doorway about" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is happening in or around a doorway. Example: "The children were huddled in the doorway about, eagerly waiting for the rain to stop so they could go outside and play."
It was a strongly built pillbox, almost undamaged; the three defence walls were about 10ft thick, each with a machine-gun position, while the fourth wall, which faced our new line, had one small doorway – about 3ft square.
The architects, Platt Byard Dovell White, wanted to widen the central doorway about fivefold, but all they eked out of the landmarks commission was permission to create doors out of two flanking windows.
Some ANAL activists headed off to scout out a new squat elsewhere in the city, while their comrades milled around winding up the slab-faced security contractors in the doorway, asking about their steroid habits and pretending they were arsonists and knew about secret passages hidden throughout the empty building.
Some ANAL activists headed off to scout out a new squat elsewhere in the city, while their comrades milled around winding up the slab-faced security contractors in the doorway, asking about their steroid habits and pretending there were arsonists and knew about secret passages hidden throughout the empty building.
Near the top of the doorway, at about six and a half feet, is the final measure.
The day before Christmas I brought some cookies to a friend and we stood in her doorway talking about the holidays.
This corridor is lined with thirteen mysterious doorways, each about twelve feet high.
But even a pragmatist like me is left feeling like they want to punch a shih tzu after coming across "men kan" - the wooden beams spanning the bottom of doorways in about a third of Chinese buildings.
She looked at the two baby-faced officers, standing earnestly at her apartment doorway, prattling on about the program.
He also stands in a doorway and talks about hiding his emotions.
When her roommate Marnie arrives in the doorway, Hannah tells her about her bad night; the women talk and laugh and dance together.
