Sentence examples for turned the doorknob from inspiring English sources

I turned the doorknob, waiting for it to jam.

That day was Oct. 9, shortly after 10 p.m., as Ms. Frye returned from her job in Manhattan and turned the doorknob to her Queens apartment.

It may sound finicky but after all your hard efforts to wash your hands, do you really want to touch a door handle when the person before you who didn't wash his or her hands just turned the doorknob?

Turning the doorknob with a hand towel?

"You're really spacey tonight," he said, turning the doorknob.

When he opened the safe, he packed up, exchanged goodbyes and appeared to be turning the doorknob to leave.

You could simply turn the doorknob and exit the room the same way you entered, of course, but consider the possibility that your roommate may be watching "Love Actually" with his girlfriend on your living-room couch.

I forgot my debt to her for this until the night after she died, when I was alone in the house and suddenly every sound once more became sinister — the escaped lunatic slowly turning the doorknob, the big brute creeping up the stairs.

I went to use the bathroom and found myself clumsily fumbling to turn the doorknob.

"[Most of the women] in there will turn the doorknob and go 'there's nobody in there, I gotta pee' and there you go.

Turn the doorknob so that the least rotation is needed.