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"doorknob" Definitions
  1. a type of round handle for a door that you turn in order to open the door

175 Sentences With "doorknob"

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It's not the same process for a doorknob, for on a doorknob you're getting full palm action.
Tierno gave a harrowing example: Someone who has norovirus touches a doorknob, then you touch the same doorknob.
For example, a door might be missing a doorknob, but when green is returned, you might suddenly find a green doorknob where one wasn't before.
MALHEUR NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Oregon (Reuters) - The doorknob rattled.
"Every knock on the doorknob comes with anxiety," Pinedo said.
Finalising the doorknob designs took a year and a half.
Then all of a sudden, the turn of a doorknob.
We talked into the doorknob like it was a microphone.
You rotate the key, twist the doorknob and walk inside.
"But it's really weird to pray to a doorknob," Roger said.
My year-old daughter's redrobe hangs from the doorknob shouting Stop.
He stood there a long moment, rattling the doorknob, feeling disoriented.
He ejected a spent shell and unloaded a blast toward the doorknob.
Our hands are raw from washing every time we touch a doorknob.
Or that no one kept being there when the doorknob had clearly.
Maybe it's laid out on your bed, maybe it's hanging from a doorknob.
The door, the brass doorknob, the copper lock plate, the old-fashioned keyhole.
Grumpy has covered every kind of toy from cat wands to doorknob doodads.
He moved about the grounds for 20 minutes and even jiggled a doorknob.
No one has a video of GRU agents smearing a doorknob with Novichok.
A voter can be as dumb as a doorknob and still be engaged.
Not too much later, Julia decides to masturbate with a stolen bespoke doorknob.
I am supposed to go ahead at every doorknob, everything else ... no touching.
Robots can walk, talk, run a hotel … and are entirely stumped by a doorknob.
Then there is a long scene in which we watch her fuck a doorknob.
I stayed inside with a chair under my doorknob because I felt so unsafe.
Even now, his hand on the doorknob, he felt a slight urge to run.
Three hours into a true crime binge, you hear someone fumbling with the doorknob.
It's inconvenient when you catch your Porta Pro cable on a doorknob and it snaps.
It&aposs actually the first time he&aposd actually felt a doorknob in 25 years.
"There've been some break-ins recently," he said, and stuck a chair under the doorknob.
Charleston wore lion doorknob earrings and Thomas, lion cufflinks and a horse-and-jockey broach.
Just insert the security bracket into the door latch pocket and simultaneously turn the doorknob.
Then one morning, as I returned to my apartment, my hand paused on the doorknob.
The new model is roughly the size of a standard doorknob, according to the company.
They can be smudged, or only partially left on the edge of a doorknob or countertop.
Well, whoever was wiggling my garage doorknob starts banging on the windows in my living room.
When 17-year-old Alexa Pacheco was grounded on Tuesday, her parents took her doorknob away.
I lay on the massage table, but my eyes were on the doorknob the entire time.
That model can detect what a wearer is doing (opening a doorknob, using a screwdriver, etc.).
D'Alessandro encourages visiting schoolchildren to draw a historic face on a doorknob hanger to take home.
But when he writes plays for kids, he spreads out on the floor, below doorknob height.
A virus gets on a surface — a shoe or a doorknob or a tissue, for example.
Her palms are clammy, and she can see her handprint on the brass of the doorknob.
AA says people can define it however they want — even use a doorknob if they need to.
My father-in-law is holding hard on to the apartment doorknob as if to brace himself.
Patterson fired at the doorknob and pushed the door open with his shoulder, according to the complaint.
Cost: Free For a loose doorknob, use a screwdriver to tighten the screws located around the base.
Guests who opt in to this sweet deal will receive a "Donut Disturb" doorknob hanger upon check-in.
Someone bumps into the doorknob, and the closet door just opens, revealing the ugliest beliefs inside of us.
The Associated Press reported Spade was found with a red scarf around her neck attached to a doorknob.
The Associated Press reported Spade was found with a red scarf around her neck attached to a doorknob.
She also has a dance studio, which has a strange doorknob that seems to turn on its own.
Vacuum-pad grippers help the robot grab everything from a pencil to a water bottle to a doorknob.
" Machado tells us that she can't forget Debra and her doorknob: "I hope she got what she needed.
These two men preparing in the living room, the last Are you sure, a hand on the doorknob.
How much risk to take when the smallest act can be a risk: touching a doorknob, buying milk.
It took him nearly a month to relearn everyday tasks, like tying his shoe and turning a doorknob.
" Fran recalls the quandary of a woman with weakened wrists who, after a minor stroke, died abandoned in her bathroom because she was unable to open the door to call for help: "If she'd had a lever-type doorknob instead of an old-fashioned screw doorknob, she'd be alive today.
And she recommends sliding a doorknob into a suckling pig's mouth to keep its jaws open as it roasts.
He said he was worried because he'd put his hands on her doorknob while trying to open the front door.
It was a while before they garnered the wherewithal to tie their boat to the front doorknob and slosh inside.
Eventually, Beilhack delegated some tasks to Yasser: repairing a broken doorknob, blowing leaves off the hiking trails near the residence.
And another exit is through a door that is missing a doorknob, which means coming back through it is impossible.
They didn't have a mic or any sound equipment, so they made all of the comics hold a loose doorknob.
The doorknob is a lot smarter, and the lightbulb is a lot smarter, and your wristwatch is a lot smarter.
Phara Souffrant Forrest returned a set of keys she found dangling from a doorknob in a Crown Heights apartment building.
She said she tells them, "The person on your doorknob helped open the door for somebody else to get freedom."
Although he's agnostic, he tried to make it work — following AA's recommendation to, if needed, make his higher power a doorknob.
In real life, collecting fingerprints left on a window or doorknob is a delicate science, as well as an important one.
The website also suggests the shape within the white flower petal is a jewelry box, though it could also be a doorknob.
When Theo hears the doorknob jiggling in episode 3, we see it was actually Shirley and Nell jiggling the Red Room's door.
It's still extremely limited — you likely can't twist a doorknob with it, or reliably grip a knife or fork, and so on.
The Associated Press reported on Tuesday morning that Spade was found with a red scarf around her neck attached to a doorknob.
It's harmless—like when you accidentally get shocked by a doorknob—but annoying enough that you won't want it to happen again.
If your windows are dirty, they aren't a big concern to your health but a doorknob touched after a sneeze can be.
The gadget, which sits on the Studio's 28-inch screen and twists like a doorknob, is a peripheral, like a mouse and keyboard.
Me explaining in court that my son was right in his actions, but dead as a doorknob, is not going to help me.
A woman, cowering in a corner with a black eye, would say she fell into a doorknob, while her partner loomed over her.
He was working out with an elastic band, which was tied to a doorknob, when someone opened the door on the other side.
The first time I went downstairs to see her, my hand was on her doorknob before I wondered if I should knock. Yes.
He cut his hand on the window he was attempting to climb through and used his bleeding hand on every doorknob in my house.
Simply wrap the Neck Hammock's strap around a railing, pole, or doorknob, place your head in the cradle, and let your pain drift away.
I guess I'd rather have a doorknob/magic marker/old Mars bar to talk into than be forced to speak like a normal human.
This means cleaning the toilet, the handle, the sink, the doorknob — anything that a sick person or his or her fluids might have touched.
That's relevant, because the products you buy in the supermarket, or the doorknob you touch in your apartment building, are made of these materials.
I saw the doorknob turn — I didn't hear it, I saw it turn — and I was like, 'Oh, s—,' and then a crack of light.
"A small number of systems were unsuccessfully exploited, as though somebody rattled the doorknob and was unable to get in, so to speak," he said.
The most fictional of these, "Burning Down the House," depicts a powdery-blue door complete with a doorknob, which partially opens to reveal a closet.
Watching Dallas learn how to actually stop the puck would feel like the raptor figuring out how to work the doorknob in Jurassic Park. 23.
This included both blood stains and touch DNA, which is the material that transfers to a surface—like a windowsill or doorknob— from a person's skin.
Nadia describes her birthday as "staring down mortality like the barrel of a gun"; exiting that bathroom requires pulling the trigger of a gun-shaped doorknob.
"This means cleaning the toilet, the handle, the sink, the doorknob — anything that a sick person or his or her fluids might have touched," Melinda wrote.
She didn't stand much higher than the doorknob, so she barely had to bend over to glue her eye to the keyhole, vipers tangling in her gut.
Investigators across the globe began scouring crime scenes for anything—a doorknob, a countertop, a knife handle—that a perpetrator may have tainted with incriminating "touch" DNA.
Guenon monkey escaped from his enclosure while it was being cleaned on Tuesday, by twisting a doorknob and making a break for it, reports the Boston Globe.
In 2007, Midlarsky's office door was painted with a swastika and a noose was left on the doorknob of a black professor's office in the same building.
Not only was there a standard room service menu, but there was also a dedicated Sachertorte order card, which was designed to be hung over your doorknob.
It also has a terrified worldwide populace who are convinced that they're one contaminated doorknob or handshake or bowl of bar peanuts from catching MEV-1 too.
Fiorini says her skin "melted off onto the doorknob" as she attempted to escape through the front door, and she passed out just feet from the front entrance.
The 55-year-old fashion designer, born Katherine Brosnahan,  hanged herself Tuesday  in her Park Avenue apartment using a red scarf attached to a doorknob in her bedroom.
In Pennsylvania and Florida, Concerned Veterans for America plans to distribute 150,000 doorknob hangers to the homes of voters shown through research to be susceptible to the appeal.
The fired agents were involved the in the March 10 incident ... where, as we reported, Jonathan Tran got close enough to jiggle a doorknob into the White House.
The flu virus can survive for up to eight hours on hard surfaces, so it can be picked up from a doorknob, handrail or even a light switch.
Figure $60 to $90 to replace a doorknob with an easier-to-maneuver lever, Mr. Bawden said, and $175 to $250 for every relocated light switch or outlet.
In the next scene, Nat's siblings Joe and Stephanie walk past their mom and dad's bedroom, only to find that Jim has pointedly placed a hat on the doorknob.
As a fail-safe, I place a set of keys in a combination lockbox that hangs from a doorknob — in an emergency, anyone with the combination can get in.
Your mobile phone may have up to 25,000 bacteria per square inch, which is pretty staggering considering a toilet seat only has about 1,200 and a doorknob has 8,600.
She keeps as firm a grip on her iPad as she does on the doorknob, signing in prospective buyers at open houses rather than letting them do it themselves.
Our protagonist (presumably Finck) is lying in bed with an unnamed man she doesn't seem to know very well, when she notices a pair of goggles hanging from his doorknob.
When bunker-owner Howard (John Goodman) casually tells a story about using compressed air to freeze and shatter a doorknob, he's guaranteeing the tactic will be used against him later.
Kate Spade2018 Kate Spade was found by her housekeeper on Tuesday, hanged by a scarf she had allegedly tied to a doorknob, according to a New York Police Department source.
In a way, talking into that doorknob felt less awkward than addressing a large group of people with nothing in my hand—you get so used to holding a mic.
I had just been barred from entering the gender-neutral bathroom at Violet Hour (and it took me 45 minutes just to find the doorknob!) when a limo pulled up.
Perry grew up in Fredericktown, Ohio, population 2,300, and after graduating from high school headed to Los Angeles to pursue acting while working construction jobs and in a doorknob factory.
The brilliant colors used by Gianni Toso at the Venini Glass Factory in Murano, Italy, for example, inspired his "Venini" series (1972-1978), delicate, dimpled doorknob forms with wavy horizontal stripes.
"When you have a young child, it could be as simple as touching an area on a kitchen table, or a spoon, or a sink, or a doorknob," O'Keefe told WBZ.
Passing through a front door with a center-mounted doorknob surrounded by a starburst, you enter a living room that has a wall of glass incorporating a row of casement windows.
Coronaviruses only last several hours on surfaces at most, which is why imported goods are not going to give you an illness, but an unclean phone, a keyboard, or a doorknob could.
David Spade mourns sister-in-law: 'I still can't believe it' More than a purse Spade was found hanged by a scarf she allegedly tied to a doorknob, an NYPD source said.
Given the dog's lack of symptoms, it appeared that the Pomeranian might simply have been carrying the virus much like a "doorknob or a piece of tissue" might, as one reporter explained.
The Messthetics backed him on Friday afternoon with leisurely vamps topped by echoey keyboard and guitar as he sang about a fallen angel and about trying to reach the doorknob to heaven.
For that, you've got to pull out bigger guns: hand creams designed to soothe, nurture, and repair the most weathered of skin without leaving them slimy, gross, or unable to twist a doorknob.
"He'll always walk up from this direction, and he'll just walk up and drop it on the little doorknob and walk away, every single time that's all he does," Morrison told KOB 4.
Officials later said they found Mr. Dulos's DNA in blood found on a faucet and a doorknob inside Ms. Dulos's home, as well as evidence of an attempt to clean up the scene.
A 32-year-old Florida man has been charged after he allegedly tried to electrocute his pregnant wife by rigging a car battery charger to the front doorknob of their home in Palm Coast.
In the future, the technology could help design prosthetics that can automatically adjust their grip based on the object — just like our bodies do instinctively when we grab an egg versus, say, a doorknob.
"When he gets in his car, he will consciously stop and look at a doorknob or a light switch or all of these things he's never had time to explore," Tyler Jackson told CNN.
Installing it was a breeze: A text message appeared on my phone with the combination code to open the box; I dropped a spare key into the box and attached it to my doorknob.
Twitter user Alexa Pacheco's parents thought they were punishing her by taking away her doorknob so she couldn't lock her door, but we guess they didn't account for the door closing and locking Alexa inside.
I started to get impatient toward the end, so the last stubborn few I wrapped in a length of string, tied the other end to a doorknob, and had my younger brother slam the door.
They later found her blood mixed with Mr. Dulos's DNA on a faucet and Mr. Dulos's DNA on a doorknob inside her home, as well as evidence of an attempt to clean up the scene.
"When he gets in his car, he will consciously stop and look at a doorknob or a light switch or all of these things he's never had time to explore," said Cillian's dad, Tyler Jackson.
Soon I was watching other videos for things I knew how to do but thought I could be better at: clipping my cat's claws, changing a duvet cover ("burrito" method), pruning plants, fixing a loose doorknob.
Hyman's muted colors and heavy shadows negate summer airiness, just as the mundane scenes — chopping wood, looking out the window, a hand on a doorknob or fingers unbuttoning a shirt — are made meaningful through careful framing.
Ultimately, after Jeffs was arrested and put in jail, Lynette was placed in solitary confinement, in a trailer in Colorado City, Arizona, where her older brother acted as jailer, nailing shut her windows and inverting the doorknob.
"I hope we can find something to take home," Foos said, walking slowly, with his head down, searching for a memento or two that might be added to his collections—perhaps a doorknob or a room number.
The woman who was twice arrested for attempting to jump a White House fence says she was inspired by the man who not only made it on the grounds for 17 minutes but even jiggled a doorknob.
There&aposs one veteran we worked with it at Vermont (Ph) University where he lost his arm in Vietnam, and through technology he put on through virtual reality, actually he turned a doorknob and he started to cry.
" Mallory, committed to twenty-two hours and ten minutes, said that he had torn a brass towel ring off the wall, straightened it into a pipe, "and sort of hacked away at the area right above the doorknob.
But when something does reach the end of its life — like a decades-old crystal doorknob that falls off in your hand — you'll spend days surfing eBay looking for a replacement, because nothing like it exists on Wayfair.
After years of scouring auctions and antique shops, she now owns over 100 pieces: One (above), consisting of at least 353,400 glass tiles crammed into a frame smaller than a doorknob, depicts the Roman Forum; another, a housefly.
Altogether, the show is a highly visceral experience, channeling some of life's more underappreciated privileges: the freedom to stop at a diner, or to insert a key into a humble motel doorknob after a long day of driving.
"Apparently he's mentally disturbed," Mr. Albayalde said of the gunman later on Friday, asserting that he avoided shooting people as he burned the dining tables and fired at the doorknob of a storage room where chips are kept.
"I saw people starting to behave differently toward people who were H.I.V.-positive or who had AIDS — not wanting to shake their hands or eat chips out of the same bowl or touch the same doorknob," she said.
People can pick up norovirus by eating contaminated food, swallowing contaminated water, or touching a contaminated surface (like a doorknob or countertop) and then putting their fingers in their mouths, or by having direct contact with someone who's infected.
One night, while in one of these hazes, I locked myself out of my room, so I used a steak knife to cut a 6-inch hole through the drywall to try and reach the doorknob on the inside.
This week, Game of Thrones opened with a reprieve of sorts after last week's heartbreaking ending, where it was revealed that Hodor's ultimate purpose in life was to accomplish the same thing as a chair wedged under a doorknob.
Flipping the switch or pushing the button sets the lock to unlocked—the door will still close, but the lock will unlock with the turn of the doorknob, and will lock by flipping the switch back or using a key.
Harry fell in with the Aryan Brotherhood in prison and got an SS tattoo on his hand, partly to fit in but partly to cover up the M he had branded on his palm from the McCallister house's hot doorknob.
The police officer from the Central District of Baltimore has adopted a dog she found abandoned and tied to a doorknob in a vacant home on March 20, according to the Baltimore Police Department, who shared the news on Facebook.
A hotel room is not a sterile environment for the sort of operation Zayner envisioned, but it was better than his home, where traces of his microbiome could be found in his sheets, his bathroom, his kitchen, his front doorknob.
A card was hung from the doorknob outside—no entry, interview in progress—and as soon as they were seated, Alan told the berobed monk that he just did not see how it was possible to free oneself from all attachment.
Relatives of mine locked themselves in an inner bathroom during Hurricane Andrew, holding the doorknob for dear life; when the wind died and they opened the door, there was nothing left of the rest of the house, but they were unharmed.
Ms. Kohn recalled a dinner party in East Hampton when Ms. Taylor arrived very late to the table, brushing dirt off her white suit; it turned out that she had become trapped in the bathroom when the doorknob fell off.
And so — because we may be frightened while also being brave — we take some of the old building's rubble; steal a doorknob or two, use the line of a window for inspiration, make a sitting room of the ancient hollowed swimming pool.
According to the statement, investigators with the Flagler County Sheriff's Office learned of the rigged doorknob last week, after Lauren — who is currently out of town — told her stepfather that Wilson had allegedly warned her against letting any children touch the front door.
During the period in which I regularly came home from work to find red heating-shut-off notices dangling from the doorknob of our rental house, I progressed further into his catalog, taken by all the stories he tells in his music.
The White House intruder who jumped a fence, lingered on the grounds, hid behind a pillar and even tried a doorknob had gone right up to the Secret Service hours before and declared his desire to get inside the President's home ... TMZ has learned.
While it can be an issue in bathrooms that experience heavy use, the risk at home is minor, and the benefit to keeping handles clean has more to do with no one liking to touch a sticky or dirty doorknob than a health issue.
The man who jumped the White House fence last week was able to prowl around the property for nearly 20 minutes, got right up to the White House, hid behind a pillar and even jiggled a doorknob trying to get in ... TMZ has learned.
That price tag did not include the cost of the land, which she had to lease, but did include leaks in the ceilings and the walls and floor and a host of other things that needed repair the moment she put the key in the front doorknob.
Whether it's the handle to a kitchen cabinet, the doorknob to the bathroom or just the front door to your home, give it a wipe down from time to time, if for no other reason than to keep them free of debris and pleasant to use.
I also really like my AirPods because they generally work well, because I can fall asleep in them while listening to ASMR videos without getting tangled in cords, and because they don't get violently ripped out of my ears when I bump into a doorknob or whatever.
"Assume it was the doorknob — the person who put it there would have a coat and gloves they wouldn't have wanted to leave the country with, and they may have wanted to hide it somewhere," said Richard Guthrie, an independent chemical weapons expert and the editor of CBW Events.
This is why a person could, potentially, pick up the coronavirus on a cruise ship from touching a doorknob or railing that a sick person recently used, but they wouldn't get the coronavirus from an imported package which has been traveling for days, weeks, or months between seeing people.
It's a funny story, sure, but the whole thing went viral when Alexa posted her attempt to GTFO to her Snapchat, and later Twitter, complete with an epic soundtrack (seriously, turn on the sound.) You'd think surviving such an ordeal would earn Alexa her doorknob back, but no such luck.
So, for example, the glove would be able to approximate someone grabbing a doorknob, twisting it, and pushing it open in such a way that someone using a virtual reality headset would see all of it happening with the appropriate movements and physics as what they're doing with their hands.
Although there are antibodies in saliva that help kill off the pathogens that make us sick, Philip Tierno, clinical professor of microbiology and pathology at the NYU School of Medicine, explains that 80 percent of all infectious disease is transmitted by direct and indirect contact—think: touching a doorknob, then your eyes.
Made from metal and coated in pale paint, its parts are recognizable but illogical: a door leading to nowhere is wrapped with chain through a hole where a doorknob would go, and a window grate is bolted loosely to the frame so that it wiggles in the wind, guarding nothing but the sky beyond it.
If you're in a dark room and you need to find a way out, you can stumble around and hit your shins on a table and look for a doorknob, or if you happen to have a match and you can light it and get some insight into what the room looks like, that would be helpful.
It's a different thing, and with regular diarrhea I would compare it to a fire you see coming a block or two away and you have the time to make an escape, whereas this carnivore diet is like out of nowhere the fire is coming through the cracks, your doorknob is red hot, and all hope is lost.
" Below, a video from the Frick offers a technical explanation of the bronze chasing and gilding process of this doorknob: The large-scale oil on canvas panels by Jean-Honoré Fragonard that are a permanent installation at the Frick were also created for this now dismantled pavilion, although Du Barry reportedly did not care for his depictions of "The Progress of Love.
For example, Boston Dynamics (formerly owned by Google) released this video in 2018 of its SpotMini robot grabbing a doorknob to open a door for a friend: And research from Google from this March showed off a robot that could pick up objects and, over time, learn the best way to throw a specific shape: Despite all this research, Google and Alphabet have a troubled history with robotics.
Here are some of the many useful instruments of a late November day around the Thursday of Thanksgiving: baster, bed, belt, blanket, book, boots, bra, bread board, broom, bus, candlestick, carving knife, cash, cell phone, chair, Clingwrap, coat, coffee maker, colander, comb, computer, deodorant, desk, dishwasher, doorknob, dust pan, envelope, faucet, file folder, garbage can, glass, glasses, gravy boat, hairbrush, hair dryer, hand lotion, jar, key, knife, mouse, mug, notebook, paper, pen, pencil, pie dish, pillow, plate, platter, postage stamp, pot, printer, radio, rake, refrigerator, roasting pan, rolling pin, shampoo, shirt, shower, sink, skillet, skirt, soap, socks, sofa, spatula, sponge, spoon, stapler, stove, sweater, table, toaster, toilet, toothbrush, towel, umbrella, underpants, waste basket, watch, wine glass.

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