doorknob
noun
door·knob ˈdȯr-ˌnäb 
: a knob that releases a door latch
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Start by lying on your back with your palms facing up towards the head, and using a stretchy band attached to a doorknob or some other anchor point, extend your hand towards the floor. 
Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 29 July 2022 The Rams’ Zsa Zsa Gabor/Buckingham Palace doorknob Super Bowl ring has one Lombardi Trophy on it, dissing the hardware the team won in St. Louis. Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2022 Ten hurdles, each as tall as a standard doorknob, carefully arranged nine meters apart in Lane 3. oregonlive, 18 July 2022 The line between the two kinds of effect is thin: Foley artists record the sound of a hand twisting a doorknob, but not the sound of the mechanism turning within. Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022 Yet the dweeb, the doorknob insists he is being guided by the spirit. Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 May 2022 Fotis left behind two pieces of evidence critical to the investigation, says the sergeant: his DNA on the doorknob of the mudroom and a mixture of his and Jennifer's DNA on a faucet inside Jennifer's house. Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 21 May 2022 Kyle Pudenz wedged himself next to the vacuum cleaner in his hall supply closet and white-knuckled the doorknob, pulling with all his might. William Deshazer For Cnn, CNN, 7 May 2022 While studying the twisting motion, the engineers also discovered the torque required to successfully open an Oreo is about the same as what’s needed to turn a doorknob—a tenth of the torque required to open a bottle cap. Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2022 See More
Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 29 July 2022 The Rams’ Zsa Zsa Gabor/Buckingham Palace doorknob Super Bowl ring has one Lombardi Trophy on it, dissing the hardware the team won in St. Louis. Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2022 Ten hurdles, each as tall as a standard doorknob, carefully arranged nine meters apart in Lane 3. oregonlive, 18 July 2022 The line between the two kinds of effect is thin: Foley artists record the sound of a hand twisting a doorknob, but not the sound of the mechanism turning within. Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022 Yet the dweeb, the doorknob insists he is being guided by the spirit. Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 May 2022 Fotis left behind two pieces of evidence critical to the investigation, says the sergeant: his DNA on the doorknob of the mudroom and a mixture of his and Jennifer's DNA on a faucet inside Jennifer's house. Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 21 May 2022 Kyle Pudenz wedged himself next to the vacuum cleaner in his hall supply closet and white-knuckled the doorknob, pulling with all his might. William Deshazer For Cnn, CNN, 7 May 2022 While studying the twisting motion, the engineers also discovered the torque required to successfully open an Oreo is about the same as what’s needed to turn a doorknob—a tenth of the torque required to open a bottle cap. Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1835, in the meaning defined above
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