Wondering how to use Doorstep in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as threshold or sill.
Doorstep meaning
- An outside step leading up to the door of a building, usually a home.
- One's immediate neighbourhood or locality.
- A thick slice, especially of bread.
Using Doorstep
- The main meaning on this page is: An outside step leading up to the door of a building, usually a home. | One's immediate neighbourhood or locality. | A thick slice, especially of bread.
- Useful related words include: doorsill, threshold, sill.
- In the example corpus, doorstep often appears in combinations such as: the doorstep, your doorstep, doorstep of.
Context around Doorstep
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 9 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Doorstep
- In this selection, "doorstep" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 27.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, heading, provide, consumers, banking, services and pharmacy stand out and add context to how "doorstep" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include on their doorstep and at consumers doorstep and provides. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "doorstep" sits close to words such as airpods, asthma and brittany, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with doorstep
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Crime and anti-social behaviour an issue on the doorstep. (10 words)
Thousands of youngsters will be heading doorstep-to-doorstep on October 31. (12 words)
But not everyone in Spain wants a hydrogen plant on their doorstep. (12 words)
Craig Deleeuw Robertson, 75, was reportedly armed when federal agents arrived at his doorstep around 6:15 a.m. to serve both an arrest and search warrant of his home in Provo, south of Salt Lake City, just hours before Biden was to arrive in the state. (47 words)
Claire pointed out that travelling up and down the high street with Covid symptoms is not ideal and that ordering online isn't much better as the wait for delivery could mean your symptoms might have passed by the time it reaches your doorstep. (44 words)
All this is going to spark huge positivity throughout 2024, with you feeling that you’re driving events rather than as in recent years when other people’s dramas have stacked up on your doorstep or have been projected onto you. (41 words)
Beyond that I also have a wonderful place to live, right on my doorstep! (14 words)
Example sentences (20)
Thousands of youngsters will be heading doorstep-to-doorstep on October 31.
Initially there will be 11,000 postman who will provide doorstep banking services and later 3 lakh postal department employees will be roped in for doorstep services.
When my father passed in October last year, I went from doorstep to doorstep, pharmacy to pharmacy, but I was unable to get him any, to relieve his pain.
A DOG owner who was on his way to a local park was seen “brandishing” a baseball bat towards a man on his doorstep, a court heard.
A global recruitment search ended right back on the doorstep at Lord’s with Flower appointed as Peter Moores’ permanent successor after acting as interim head coach on England’s 11-week tour of the West Indies.
All this is going to spark huge positivity throughout 2024, with you feeling that you’re driving events rather than as in recent years when other people’s dramas have stacked up on your doorstep or have been projected onto you.
All Upper School students take advantage of their location in central London, making the most of the culture on their doorstep.
A moses basket full of kittens was left on the doorstep of an animal shelter.
And he offers us an invitation to "hop on board the ground floor of my grassroots effort and help me print an outlier sensation that will be mailed directly to your doorstep.
A portable storage unit functions as an extensive container that arrives straight at your doorstep, enabling you to load all your possessions at your leisurely pace.
As a side-note, the “real footage” viral marketing was so effective at fooling people that the Maryland town of Burkittsville suffered from the association with such gory happenings on its back doorstep.
Asked how often Sturgeon's name was being brought up on the doorstep, Sarwar added: "I think early on in police investigation, when there were arrests, it did come up on the doors.
As refugees continue to arrive at Europe’s doorstep, it is likely the issue will persist here – as well as across the continent – for some time to come.
Beyond that I also have a wonderful place to live, right on my doorstep!
BookWater offers safe drinking water at consumers’ doorstep and provides information on the water can’s usage by scanning a QR code.
But not everyone in Spain wants a hydrogen plant on their doorstep.
Claire pointed out that travelling up and down the high street with Covid symptoms is not ideal and that ordering online isn't much better as the wait for delivery could mean your symptoms might have passed by the time it reaches your doorstep.
Craig Deleeuw Robertson, 75, was reportedly armed when federal agents arrived at his doorstep around 6:15 a.m. to serve both an arrest and search warrant of his home in Provo, south of Salt Lake City, just hours before Biden was to arrive in the state.
Crime and anti-social behaviour an issue on the doorstep.
East Lindsey District Council leaders said residents in Theddlethorpe are not “informed enough” to vote on the future of their village, more than two years after a nuclear waste dump was announced on their doorstep.
Common combinations with doorstep
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the doorstep 44×
- your doorstep 35×
- doorstep of 20×
- our doorstep 18×
- their doorstep 16×
- his doorstep 14×
- doorstep and 11×
- my doorstep 9×
- her doorstep 9×
- doorstep in 7×