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doorpost

[ UK /dˈɔːpə‍ʊst/ ]
NOUN
  1. a jamb for a door

How To Use doorpost In A Sentence

  • Only a bit of string looped round a nail in the doorpost held it shut.
  • And when I looked back he was leaning against his doorpost, his head in his hands, as if he'd just lost his nearest and dearest.
  • He fired point-blank at the grinning skull resting against the doorpost.
  • I've banged into the doorpost and hurt my arm.
  • I saw that many of the doorposts had an engraving of the lion of Judah on the top.
  • The door in front of his desk was open, but the entrance was blocked by yellow tape that stretched across the doorposts.
  • The tension drained from her, and she sagged limply against the front doorpost.
  • But the tearful lover, turned away from her door, often smothers the threshold with flowers and garlands, and anoints the proud doorposts with marjoram, and plants kisses, poor wretch, on the door.
  • And you shall inscribe them on the doorposts of your home and gates.
  • The doorposts of royalty had elaborate carvings.
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