screen door

• “To fill the time, Laila fixed the screen door that Babi still hadn't got around to.”

  A Thousand Splendid Suns

• “She pushed open the screen door to let him in, and he followed her rigid white-clothed back into a living room.”

  Simon & Schuster: Confession

• “A fat, frowsy-looking woman in her mid-fifties responded to my timid knock, stared at me with intense interest, then swung the screen door wide and admitted me.”

  Simon & Schuster: Heaven

• “They are on the porch of Louis's house and he's standing in the doorway, holding the screen door open as if she's selling something he doesn't need.”

  Land of the Blind

• “Devoid of any jewelry, Dawn Lord nee Canady stood at the back screen door and stared through the wire mesh at her father so earnestly engaged in a conversation with her son—his grandson—on the rear stoop.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Second Time

• “Ben Reyes came out through a screen door into the yard.”

  Stallion Gate

• “Through the shutters came the evening sounds of distant children, a screen door slamming, a dog being chased, "Psoot-bah!”

  Stallion Gate

• “They took a toy-littered walkway up to the porch; Mal looked through a screen door into the perfect prefab living room: plastic furniture, linoleum floor, spangly pink wallpaper.”

  The Big Nowhere

• “They opened the screen door with its scrollwork D in weathered metal, and Vita and Mariano “Matty” DiNunzio flocked to them, hugging and kissing them, clucking and cooing like a pair of old city pigeons.”

  Courting Trouble

• “Carly shoved the screen door wide and ran out into the safer-feeling grayness of the night.”

  Simon & Schuster: Whispers At Midnight

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