doorknob

• “It's simple for a thief to break glass panels and then reach in and open a doorknob from the inside.”

  HOME SECURITY BASICS

• “Keep it sad around here for Tommy’s sake, he said, and went back to the lobby, where he pulled the doorknob from the wall.”

  Least Resistance

• “The doorknob is the homeowner’s property, and pulling particles from that property seizes those particles.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Swiping Doorknobs and the Fourth Amendment:

• “THE BOY Below the doorknob was a filigreed silver plate and a keyhole.”

  The Waste Lands

• “I kick at the walls on roommate's side and then break a doorknob on the closet door.”

  The Rules of Attraction

• “Beside the doorknob is a photograph of a halved screw attached to a piece of New Yorker letterhead that reads, "mutilated screw that came out of the MUNICIPAL BUILDING doorknob­-see if I can find one to replace it.”

  The Chronicle

• “Frankly, he looked like he might have an IQ somewhere between 'doorknob' and 'floor wax'.”

  People/Poetry

• “Doorknob: No one has yet called "doorknob" so it remains the ultimate trump card in this crisis.”

  Duncan Quirk: The Russia-Ukraine Gas Crisis

• “Sister Hetton had pale skin and black hair scrooped back from her face and balled into a kind of doorknob on the back of her head.”

  Blaze

• “It was the kind of doorknob that needed only a straightened wire hanger to pop the bolt.”

  The Tenth Circle

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