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How to use doormat in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Doormat means a coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes. Example: “Wipe your shoes on the doormat before you start plodding around in the house.”

Examples of doormat by meaning

nounA coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes.

  • Wipe your shoes on the doormat before you start plodding around in the house.
  • Simpson adds that the station at Stanmore appears practically unchanged from the time of its opening, even to the L.N.W.R. rubber doormat, which "shows no signs of wearing out."1942 September and October, “Notes and News: The Stanmore Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 311
  • Dimple glanced at an expensive-looking doormat with the words ‘LOSE THE SHOES’ woven into it and wondered why anyone would bother spending so much money on something people were going to wipe their feet on.2022, Candice Carty-Williams, People Person, Trapeze, pages 257–258

More sentences with doormat

  • Patience is a virtue, but those who are overpatient or hypertolerant risk inviting abusers to treat them like a doormat.From the entry hypertolerant
  • Patience is a virtue, but those who are hyperpatient or hypertolerant risk inviting abusers to treat them like a doormat.From the entry hyperpatient
  • Don't it bother you that Jason Bent and those other little snotballs treat him like a doormat?2007, Doug Lambeth, Itchy Donner, page 160. From the entry snotball
  • You look, act and talk like a doormat, and you invite people to walk on you.1971, Bernard H. Shulman, “Confrontation Techniques in Adlerian Psychotherapy”, in Heinz L[udwig] Ansbacher, editor, Journal of Individual…. From the entry tua culpa
  • The morning of the wedding he bounded up my stair, most tremendously shaved and brushed, stood upon my doormat bashfully hesitant.1944, Emily Carr, “Bachelors”, in The House of All Sorts. From the entry bashfully
  • All the papers came as usual, in their long, arhythmical collapse onto the doormat, where they lay like a menace and were approached at last with long-armed reluctance.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 17, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN. From the entry arhythmical
  • Your hair is too coarse to flop like a wild Tay salmon or a swatch of Savile Row suiting, your hair bristles, like a bog brush, like a suburban doormat.2003, Stephen Fry, The Stars' Tennis Balls, page 19. From the entry bog brush

Meaning of doormat

  1. noun A coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes.
  2. noun Someone who habitually yields to others' demands or mistreatment, failing to assert their own rights or interests.

Full definition of doormat

Questions about doormat in a sentence

How do you use doormat in a sentence?
Doormat is used as a noun. For example: “Wipe your shoes on the doormat before you start plodding around in the house.”
What is a short sentence with doormat?
“Wipe your shoes on the doormat before you start plodding around in the house.”
What does doormat mean?
Doormat means a coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes.

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