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Example sentences for "front door"

  • Each of them beat him in the race to the Woodchuck family's front door.

  • While Spot was still snorting and snuffling around the Woodchuck family's front door, Billy Woodchuck crept out of the back door and started for the clover patch.

  • But youse can get in de front door to-night whether it's locked or not, for dere ain't any street lamp near enough to do youse any harm.

  • He peered out into the street, waited for some pedestrians who were near at hand to pass further on, and then, moving quickly forward, crouched down in the shadows made by the flight of front door steps of the nearest house.

  • I never moved off the chair at my bedroom window, and I never took my eyes off the house, not till you come knocking at my front door.

  • So they ran on until they got to the Unwiseman's front door, upon which they knocked as hard as they knew how.

  • I wouldn't look at a person who'd open a front door.

  • I apologize for even thinking that you would accept pay for opening a front door, and I will esteem it a great favor if you will let me be your friend.

  • When opposite Honora's front door he would open his arms--the signal for a race across her lawn.

  • Entering Honora's front door, he saw on the hall table a number of letters which the cook (not gifted with his brains) had left there.

  • In moderate obedience to this summons Honora arrived, on the evening in question, before the ornamental ironwork of Mrs. Dallam's front door at a few minutes after seven o'clock.

  • Commercially Panama simply turns British Columbia into a front door, instead of a back door.

  • Consider Japan first: Panama is turning every port facing west into a front door instead of a back door.

  • The Atlantic has hitherto been the Dominion's front door, and the Canadian section of the Atlantic has four harbors of first rank with an aggregate population of nearly a million.

  • If Panama is turning the entire Pacific into a front door instead of a back door, then British Columbia knows the coign of vantage, which she holds as an outlet for half Canada's commerce by way of the Pacific.

  • I found my clothes huddled together with the furniture at the front end of the room, and as soon as I was dressed I went into the hall and then to my front door.

  • Turning into the hall, I saw Miss Carson, who was standing at my front door.

  • As I stood staring in blank amazement at the house which presented itself at my front door, the face at the window disappeared, and I was left to contemplate the scene by myself.

  • If one of them dies at such a time, “the body is removed over the back wall, as the taking out openly through the front door would be regarded as an evil omen.

  • When she opened the lake-front door no one entered; not a sound.

  • She stole down the stairs, unlatched the lake-front door, went out.

  • She glided along the hall, descended the stairs, opened the lake-front door.

  • A minister should always live in a villa, or at least in a 'front door.

  • Peter had wanted to go with them that morning three days ago; he had stood patiently waiting before the front door, and they had sneaked quietly out at the back without him.

  • Then Mr. Brown looked toward the entrance, or front door of the tent.

  • Bunny and Sue, with their bed-blankets trailing after them, slipped in through the "front door.

  • Of course, there was not really a "front door" to a tent.

  • There are just two pieces of canvas, called "flaps," that come together and make a sort of front door.

  • Then she unlocked and opened the front door.

  • Then Maria closed and locked the front door, while Lily stood trembling and waiting.

  • Thirdly, I want you to join me on guard when you close the front door at midnight, hiding the pair of us somewhere above, so that we can see, without fear of mistake, any persons who may possess keys which fit my front door.

  • Scarcely five minutes had elapsed before the porter, with an ear trained to the noises of the building, whispered eagerly: "Some one has just closed the front door, sir.

  • Mr. Iglesias distinctly heard him race up a neighbouring flight of steps, heard the click and turn of a latchkey in a lock, heard the slam of a front door pulled to violently.

  • Mr. Iglesias was in the act of entering the Lovegroves' front door, which the worthy George held open for him.

  • But there the would-be ferocious animal paused, squatted upon its haunches, pointing its finger dramatically towards the front door, thus causing the whole company to wheel round and gaze nervously in the direction indicated.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    care about; continuous series; cubic foot; extend their; fresh fruits; front and; front door; front gate; front line; front room; front seat; front view; frontal attack; frontier life; frontier town; glossy black; holy will; leaving their; left undone; much lower; must seek; pour forth; remove every; silent prayer; sont les; will send