How do you use Doorstop in a sentence? See 8 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like catch or stop, plus the exact meaning.
Doorstop meaning
- Any device or object used to halt the motion of a door, as a large or heavy object, a wedge, or some piece of hardware fixed to the floor, door or wall.
- A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door.
- Eggcorn of doorstep.
Using Doorstop
- The main meaning on this page is: Any device or object used to halt the motion of a door, as a large or heavy object, a wedge, or some piece of hardware fixed to the floor, door or wall. | A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door. | Eggcorn of doorstep.
- Useful related words include: doorstopper, catch, stop.
- In the example corpus, doorstop often appears in combinations such as: doorstop and.
Context around Doorstop
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 2 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Doorstop
- In this selection, "doorstop" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, better, novelistic, media and interview stand out and add context to how "doorstop" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a media doorstop and as a doorstop. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "doorstop" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with doorstop
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Will you repeal it, he asked Shorten at a media doorstop? (11 words)
Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne during a doorstop interview at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 26 October 2020. (20 words)
David Mazurek said he took his doorstop to the university for examination after seeing reports in January of meteorite pieces selling for thousands of dollars. (25 words)
These doors have an operating range of slightly over 90 degrees, so their use is limited to where they come into contact with a side wall when fully open (or where they can be prevented from opening too far by a doorstop ). (42 words)
We see a Waitrose bag being dropped off at a neighbour’s doorstop and again in a second shot when the neighbour offers his neighbour something from the bag. (29 words)
After reading about pieces of meteorites selling for thousands of dollars, David Mazurek decided to learn more about the large rock he had used for decades as a doorstop. (29 words)
Will you repeal it, he asked Shorten at a media doorstop? (11 words)
Example sentences (8)
Dutton is a much better doorstop and live media performer than in Parliament, and he has some lines now that will cut through on commercial TV news.
Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne during a doorstop interview at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 26 October 2020.
We see a Waitrose bag being dropped off at a neighbour’s doorstop and again in a second shot when the neighbour offers his neighbour something from the bag.
After reading about pieces of meteorites selling for thousands of dollars, David Mazurek decided to learn more about the large rock he had used for decades as a doorstop.
This two-part, novelistic doorstop of a play, a portrait of 21st-century gay men in search of their collective past, occupies more than six hours of stage time.
David Mazurek said he took his doorstop to the university for examination after seeing reports in January of meteorite pieces selling for thousands of dollars.
Will you repeal it, he asked Shorten at a media doorstop?
These doors have an operating range of slightly over 90 degrees, so their use is limited to where they come into contact with a side wall when fully open (or where they can be prevented from opening too far by a doorstop ).
Common combinations with doorstop
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: