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Example sentences for "doorsill"

Lexicographically close words:
doorman; doormat; doorpost; doorposts; doors; doorstep; doorsteps; doorstone; doorway; doorways
  1. He sprang across the doorsill and halted, balancing on the balls of his feet.

  2. An' that cut left hand yuh didn't get by trippin' over the doorsill like yuh told Cap'n Burr.

  3. On the doorsill Dorothy Burr and Pete O'Leary sat side by side.

  4. Racey stepped across the doorsill and halted just within the room.

  5. The poacher was sunning himself on his doorsill when I came into view over the black basalt rocks.

  6. The Lizard was standing on his doorsill when I came up; he returned my greeting sullenly, his keen eyes of a sea-bird roving over me from head to foot.

  7. Every few seconds I stopped and put my head down to the doorsill to listen.

  8. On the doorsill he paused to ask the cabin boy when his ship sailed.

  9. The doorsill (of this temple), always an object of superstitious regard, but especially so in the case of this temple.

  10. My labor now has its reward, The doorsill of Pa-ka'a-lana.

  11. The doorsill of the temple, heiau, of Paka'a-lana was made of the exceedingly hard wood nioi.

  12. Across the bridge the windows of Pally Hughes's grey-stone cottage shone with candles, and as the doors swung to and fro admitting guests, the lights from within flickered on the brass doorsill and the hum of merry words reached the street.

  13. Aye, a woman, an' she moved on to the doorsill of Jane Jones's house an' stopped there.

  14. Good-day," said Olwyn Evans, stepping over the brass doorsill of Sygyn Fawr.

  15. When she reached the sauna she was ready to drop the bathrobe and jump over the doorsill to the steaming shelf, but the King's Son whispered: "Nay!

  16. Then Ilona said she couldn't go until the old worn doorsill over which so many of their forefathers had walked should fall to splinters at the brush of her skirts.

  17. So Osmo secretly split the old doorsill into thin slivers and, when next Ilona stepped over it, the brush of her skirts sent the splinters flying.


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