How to Use doorstop in a Sentence

doorstop

noun
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  • This shelf then acts as a doorstop that pushes back against the glacier’s flow.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 14 May 2018
  • His students haven’t had to lug home those doorstops in years.
    — Jay Mathews, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2019
  • For a while, the size 12.5 sneakers acted as a doorstop in Kovler’s room.
    — Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2021
  • News footage of the crime shows a man with a box of candy appearing on the woman’s doorstop.
    — Teri Webster, Dallas News, 29 Mar. 2022
  • And in the cafe’s bookshelves, nobody had bought a copy of the report, a hefty doorstop being offered up for $15.
    — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 6 June 2019
  • The weather may still be chilly, but Monday’s equinox is a reminder that warmer days are on our doorstop.
    — Justin Grieser, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2022
  • As a foot soldier in the Labour Party, Peter Chowney is a veteran of the doorstop pitch.
    — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Others, such as spider toxins, act more like a doorstop to keep them open.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2014
  • Cal’s success has brought a slew of suitors to his doorstop, all hoping to convince him to leave Kentucky.
    — John Talty | Jtalty@al.com, al, 19 Nov. 2020
  • This mountaintop acts like a doorstop, blocking the glacier’s forward progress.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Nearer the coast, Ben Bulben dominates the landscape, jutting from the earth like a great doorstop.
    — J.r. Patterson, Washington Post, 29 July 2022
  • The doorstop is effective even when the chain or other external locks give way.
    — Caroline Morse Teel, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The novel piles on loads of scary details about what the world would be like if your computer became nothing but a doorstop.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2018
  • This ridge acts like a doorstop, creating back pressure that holds the ice shelf together.
    — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022
  • When, in 1802, a young boy found footprints in stone on his family’s South Hadley, Massachusetts farm some of the tracks wound up as a doorstop.
    — Brian Switek, WIRED, 8 Oct. 2010
  • The difference can be significant enough to produce a doorstop rather than a cake.
    — Alice Medrich, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Instead of being angry, Lucifer's delighted to be the focus of a doorstop of a novel.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Goodson, 23, was shot and killed by a Franklin County Sheriff's deputy on the doorstop of his grandmother's home on Dec. 4, officials said.
    — NBC News, 30 Apr. 2021
  • In my very humble opinion, doorstops are an absolute pain.
    — Taylor Mead, House Beautiful, 1 Mar. 2019
  • The doorstop of a tome features Fulk's more-is-more design, from private homes to private jets, as well as images from his legendary parties.
    — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 3 Oct. 2016
  • Readers might reasonably wonder if such an artist merits a doorstop like this one.
    — John Lingan, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
  • What would the holidays be without jokes about fruitcake — that it’s leaden, dry and hard, better used as a doorstop or dumbbell than served as dessert?
    — Claire Saffitz, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Weighing 75 pounds and measuring 29 inches tall, this oversize gnome works well as dashing decor or a doorstop.
    — Nevin Martell, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Also brought from the coastal house: a large, wooden pelican perched on a marine piling that serves as a doorstop; most of the seascape artwork and a plastic crab with a clock in its shell hanging in the kitchen.
    — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Feb. 2021
  • On another occasion, a stick of dynamite and a death threat was left at the doorstop of the county health officer tasked with enforcing the law.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2021
  • In your standard Christmas story, there is a family fruitcake that makes the rounds every year and doubles as a doorstop until it is mailed to the next victim.
    — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Mrazek would also stop Pastranak on the doorstop later in the first period, a great save, although far from matching his earlier one.
    — Marc Narducci, Philly.com, 1 Apr. 2018
  • The approach of blanking out the AI driving system would seem the more assured approach to stop the evildoer takeover, though this also means that the vehicle becomes a doorstop.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
  • A used flight recorder from a Boeing 757, for example, becomes a high-tech doorstop and instant conversation-starter.
    — Cynthia Drescher, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 June 2017
  • As the number one purveyor of trucks in America for more than 40 years, Dearborn wasn’t about to squander its customer goodwill on a giant steel doorstop.
    — Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 20 May 2021

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