: a bell or set of chimes to be rung usually by a push button at an outer door
Examples of doorbell in a Sentence
We rang the doorbell until someone came to let us in.
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Lester allegedly shot Yarl after the teen rang the doorbell at Lester’s home.
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Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2025
Andrew Lester, the 86-year-old Kansas City man who shot Black honor student Ralph Yarl after the teen mistakenly rang his doorbell, has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.
—Essence News Editors, Essence, 17 Feb. 2025
In the April 2023 incident, Yarl, then 16 years old, rang Lester’s doorbell, mistaking it for the house where he was supposed to pick up his siblings.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2025
Andrew Lester, the 86-year-old Missouri man who pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of a Black honor student who rang the White man's doorbell in Kansas City by mistake, has died, prosecutors announced Wednesday.
—CBS News, 19 Feb. 2025
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Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2025
Andrew Lester, the 86-year-old Kansas City man who shot Black honor student Ralph Yarl after the teen mistakenly rang his doorbell, has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.
—Essence News Editors, Essence, 17 Feb. 2025
In the April 2023 incident, Yarl, then 16 years old, rang Lester’s doorbell, mistaking it for the house where he was supposed to pick up his siblings.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2025
Andrew Lester, the 86-year-old Missouri man who pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of a Black honor student who rang the White man's doorbell in Kansas City by mistake, has died, prosecutors announced Wednesday.
—CBS News, 19 Feb. 2025
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“Doorbell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doorbell. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.
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doorbell
noun
door·bell
-ˌbel 
: a bell, gong, or set of chimes to be rung usually by a push button at an outside door
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