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doorstep

A doorstep is the area in front of a door. We bought a new mat to replace the old one at our doorstep.

doorstep

(= doorsill) 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

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Simple sentences

Tom and Mary sat on the doorstep talking to each other.
Launched by the city three years ago, the ambitious program mails one high-quality book every month to the family's doorstep.
Tom was standing on the doorstep.
On the doorstep sat his old woman, with the broken wash-tub before her.
Tom's cat was waiting for him on the doorstep.

Movie subtitles

I just found it on the doorstep.
I wouldn't advise the intermingling of lips on this particular doorstep, but you may write our initials with a sparkler later on.
I found those two on the American consul's doorstep.
If you keep up the fuss you're making. you'll have them right on our doorstep.
Dropping me on the doorstep like a throwaway for a credit dentist.
You're practically on the doorstep.
I won't leave that damned doorstep.
There's a little bundle sitting on my doorstep by the name of Nulty, who's playing at not looking like a cop.
In that way he may prevent bloodshed at his doorstep.
He used to come every morning and nibble on the doorstep.
This mirror was mysteriously left for you on the doorstep.
Right at my doorstep.
What kind destiny to have brought him all alone right to our doorstep.
We can't overlook that murder is at our doorstep but don't drag it in here.
Imagine my finding you right on my doorstep.
If you keep up the fuss, they'll be on our doorstep.
You can't leave whenever you please and expect Delia to wait on your doorstep.
He was knifed on my doorstep.
Oh, yeah. He used to come every morning and nibble on the doorstep.
When he came back, he looked so lovely in his uniform I camped on his doorstep until he consented to marry me.
Some strange monument that the Greeks have left at our doorstep.
I think it's mighty fine how that old fellow, on death's doorstep takes in my shape with what I consider deserved appreciation.
Someone left them on Clayton's doorstep last night.
Oh, well, Papa, like Sandy said, someone left them on my doorstep, and that's.
They go and throw me on his doorstep like a parcel.
I have received a complaint from the engineer Cifuentes, who was attacked and dumped on your doorstep.
When he returns he will find his possessions on the doorstep.
There's a little bundle on my doorstep named Nulty. who's playing at not looking like a cop.
Look at what some ardent admirer left at your doorstep.
What's this shouting on my doorstep?
Why, I'm right on death's doorstep. just hanging on by sheer will power.
Why look elsewhere for what's on your own doorstep?
I murdered Lisa on her front doorstep.
Once, when I was about 4 or 5, I was sitting on the doorstep.
Believe me, if she were mine, she'd be on your doorstep in the morning.

News and current affairs

This is the revolution that arrived at America's doorstep on September 11, 2001.
Indeed, on Europe's doorstep, the show trial and imprisonment of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is jeopardizing her country's international economic standing.
Mexican leaders acknowledge the country's internal problems, but place three of them at America's doorstep.
But Turkey will not sit idly on Europe's doorstep.
With good reason, parents everywhere were terrified that poliovirus would reach their doorstep - like a plague - striking a child and causing irreversible paralysis in a matter of hours, or, worse, death in a matter of days.
Whether on the European Union's doorstep or just inside, they compete for the attention of foreign direct investors, for whom a flat tax provides an important signal: You are welcome, we will not steal your money, and you can keep what you earn.
Many European lawmakers are worried by the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran on Europe's doorstep, and are not convinced by the regime's claim that it seeks only nuclear energy.
We are an open, transparent economy with a highly skilled workforce and a market of 500 million people on our doorstep.
Though some countries have persevered in the face of Russia's threats to bring separatist, ethnic, or other problems to their doorstep should they choose integration with the EU, others have responded to the pressure.
A nuclear-armed Iran on its doorstep is certainly not in Russia's national interest, particularly given the increasing radicalization of Russia's own 20 million Muslim citizens - the only part of its population that is actually growing.
No doubt, the Saudis believe that a Shia-led Bahrain would lead to Iranian dominance at their very doorstep.
With its long borders with Russia, China knows it would have much to regret if a new, oil-fired Russian empire appeared on its doorstep.
But there is a clear correlation between unrest at the EU's doorstep and Europe's irresistible instinct to keep trouble at arm's length.
Instead, NATO expanded to Russia's doorstep, the European Union barred its doors, and membership in the World Trade Organization seemed out of reach.
Europe must recognize that if it doesn't take care of its geopolitical interests, sooner or later crises in its neighboring regions will arrive on its doorstep.
The eurozone crisis on our doorstep, and the lingering damage inflicted by the crash of our financial system, dragged down economic growth in 2011 and 2012.
Indeed, Turkey has been offering logistical support to the Islamic State, even as it has enabled the group's murderous members to massacre thousands of civilian Kurds and Yazidis in the Syrian town of Kobani on Turkey's doorstep.

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