Sentence examples for one doorbell from inspiring English sources

One doorbell ringing unexpectedly last April sent me scuttling to hide at the top of my landing, peering fearfully down the hallway until whoever it was went away.

On one figure, a doorbell became a belly button, and a split tennis ball became -- what else? -- tennis elbow.

On one occasion the doorbell rang, and Norbu kicked all of his students out, telling them to go across the street to the private park that came with his building.

Whereas townspeople hesitate to ring one's doorbell without warning, country people seem to think that popping in and out of each other's houses at any time of day is a neighbourly thing to do.

Inside, the lights were on, but no one answered the doorbell.

The New Yorker, August 1, 1936 P. 7 A little girl named Sonya Markmann who is about seven years old, answered the doorbell one day, and found on the top doorstep a nice fatherly cop, who had come to see about a parking tage, or perhaps even tickets to the Policeman's Ball.

L. Markmann and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, August 1, 1936 P. 7 A little girl named Sonya Markmann who is about seven years old, answered the doorbell one day, and found on the top doorstep a nice fatherly cop, who had come to see about a parking tage, or perhaps even tickets to the Policeman's Ball.

One night, his doorbell rang.

One day, the doorbell rang, and it was Jackie Gleason.

One day her doorbell rang and a small voice chirped, "It's your neighbor".

No one answered the doorbell at several houses, but a caretaker, Jovel Bonapos, 16, appeared at the gate of a large pink house.