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Examples
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Her trilling laughter smote upon his reverie, and he stepped to the screen-door, through which he could see her running down the path to the beach.
Chapter 13 2010
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Sharon fumbled with the screen-door latch for a second, then pushed it open to race from the house.
Western Man Janet Dailey 2011
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Sheldon slipped inside with the telescope, and through the screen-door watched her run up the path, shaking down her hair as she ran, to the fresh-water shower under the house.
Chapter 13 2010
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Sharon fumbled with the screen-door latch for a second, then pushed it open to race from the house.
Western Man Janet Dailey 2011
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So I went around to the screen-door and popped the latch with a screwdriver.
No Pretty Boy 2010
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He ran up the front steps of his house, opened the screen-door and called out, "I'm home!" as he lowered his head and sprinted upstairs, counting each step in the rhythm of his pounding feet.
WIP Matt Dennison 2010
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It was a few wooden sticks hammered into the shape of a cube, and screen-door mesh covering the sides.
From The Tips Box: Fruit Flies, Keyboard Adjustments, Booze | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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My point is that your logic is about as water-tight as a screen-door.
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With her chin in the air she crossed the sidewalk, pushed open the swinging screen-door, and giving not a glance to the uproarious, riotous row that occupied the waiting bench, went up to the fat barber.
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He opens the front screen-door and admits a handsome young man of thirty, clad in the sort of well-intentioned clothes peculiar to those who serve mankind.
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