What is "doorjamb"

Usage examples of "doorjamb".

A touchpoint in the doorjamb caused the walls to glow yellow-white, and set the dials glowing too.

At the edge of her vision before the doorjamb blocked it, she saw the leglike appendages of one of the spider things.

Lindsey would have shot him without hesitation, without moral compunction, but he moved so incredibly fast, like a cat springing for safety, that all she would have gotten was a piece of the doorjamb.

She remained standing, leaning against the doorjamb, her eyes glued to the mirror of the dressing table before which Jacqueline, without removing her gown, had sat down The mirror was so big it covered the entire back wall, and the dressing table itself was a simple slab of black glass-that she could see Jacqueline's and her own reflection, as well as the reflection of the costume girl who was undoing the aigrettes and the tulle netting.

The pale young man, who must be a curate, was as white as his clerical collar, and Baine, over by the door, was clutching the doorjamb for support.

After a perilous descent, she entered the dungeon, her crinolines and farthingale hoops rasping against the doorjambs and causing the candles to waver in surprise.

It was one of several on this mean little street, where doorjambs and window moldings had been tarted up by Pakistanis and Indians with more of a flair for color—especially marine blues and rusty reds—than had the Brindles.

He rested against the cool side of one of the doorjambs and wiped perspiration from his cheeks and eyebrows.

Cops sat against walls, leaned on doorjambs with their guns drawn, looking at them stupidly, transfixed.

I am one of them, white or at least sky-grey, with pub rug, and ashen arm on the Fiasco doorjamb, unsmiling at the traffic light, fat-brained with abusebut holding money.

Maxim, garbed casually with his shirt hanging open to the waist, leaned lazily against the doorjamb.

I jumped back, and the ketchup bottle sailed by my ear, smashed on the doorjamb and ketchup splattered everywhere.

Quick, light footsteps sounded from the corridor, and Miles rounded the doorjamb like a trooper swinging himself through a shuttle hatch.

With his left hand he feverishly groped for the long screwdriver, still wedged in the doorjamb.

The rejection astonished Hoke at first, and for a moment he considered taking the key off the doorjamb, where it was hanging, wired to a railroad spike, and using the toilet anyway.