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Example sentences for "doormat"

Lexicographically close words:
doorkeeper; doorkeepers; doorknob; doorless; doorman; doorpost; doorposts; doors; doorsill; doorstep
  1. Mr. Maclin ordered a new doormat every three days, and kept a package of dog biscuits in the drawer of the library table.

  2. On the front porch he found a small, brown dog busily engaged in reducing the doormat to a pulp.

  3. Mr. Maclin went out and gave the unoffending new doormat a savage kick.

  4. I've a new doormat waiting for him," said Mr. Maclin.

  5. On the eastern shore, meanwhile, the men charged to kill the Arabs' horses were doing their work, so as to prevent any who might escape from returning to Fostat, or riding forward to Doormat and reporting what had occurred.

  6. The gardener felt as though he had lost his own father, and his lively tongue remained speechless till he entered Doormat with the rescued sisters, and proceeded to carry out his master's last orders.

  7. She supposed it must be this thickness of atmosphere that made her, on Robert's doormat with her hand on the latch, feel suddenly so very like fainting.

  8. And her voice from the doormat became quite a cry, regardless of possible listening Wilsons.

  9. This Platonic proposition is the doormat over-which two persons walk to other things.

  10. Any man that wears clothes like a doormat will let you make a doormat of him!

  11. Will you be a doormat just for once and let me trample on you because you've got the bug?

  12. In them I had the great adventure which caused me to become a doormat and let my brother trample on me all his life.

  13. Many think a Christian has to be a sort of dish-rag proposition, a wishy-washy, sissified sort of a galoot that lets everybody make a doormat out of him.

  14. It's what people always do, and it will be quite safe, because no one would ever think of looking under a doormat for a key.

  15. Then, disconsolately, Wisp trotted to the house and curled up on the doormat in a small and furry and miserably unhappy heap.

  16. Long afterward, Trask Frayne could summon up memory of the daintily graceful little dog, lying so obediently on the doormat and wagging such a brave goodbye to the master who had just deprived him of a jolly day's outing.

  17. Jock rose from his bed on the doormat and ranged alongside her for the anticipated walk.

  18. This sentry-go accomplished, he would circle the porch and return to his doormat bed for another fitful snooze.


  19. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doormat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.