noun
doorstep
the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway
In a sentence
Six example sentences with doorstep, each labelled with its topic.
The cottage's worn granite doorstep has a shallow dip in the middle from three centuries of boots crossing it.
Architecture
She framed the portrait from below, with the subject seated on the doorstep and the street receding behind her.
Photography
Edwardian housemaids scrubbed and whitened the doorstep every morning, since a gray one signaled a household in decline.
History
The novel opens with a basket left on the doorstep and a note that nobody in the household can read.
Literature
In Lisbon the doorstep of nearly every old house is a single slab of worn white limestone.
Travel
The final scene has the two brothers sitting on the doorstep, saying nothing while the porch light flickers.
Movies
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