How to Use doors down/up/apart in a Sentence

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  • She was last seen two doors down from Bryan's … walking in the direction of his house.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2023
  • The 7-Eleven a few doors down on State Street fared better, staying open through the pandemic.
    — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2023
  • And her brother recently opened a cafe and gelato shop just two doors down the street.
    — Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 27 Feb. 2024
  • And her daughter — the one who became briefly homeless the day she was born — now lives just a few doors down from Gomes, at Brookside.
    — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 5 Jan. 2024
  • And soon, there could be a third marker a few doors down from the office of Seidler’s ancestor.
    — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 29 July 2023
  • There’s also Margadh Café & Wine Bar, a more informal cafe-cum-wine bar and shop, a few doors down.
    — Aoife O'Riordain, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Just a few doors down, Abbey Carlson is in the welding studio, wearing jeans with holes burnt through them and a cap to protect her hair.
    — Olivia Sanchez, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Johnson, 66, said an older woman who uses a wheelchair and her adult son live at that house two doors down from him.
    — Karen Cortes, NBC News, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Rizzuto’s house, just three doors down from Kid Rock’s, was appraised at $8.65 million last year.
    — Brian Bushard, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Dru Sorenson, owner of Sourdough Dru’s Gifts, reminisced on her shop’s front porch a few doors down.
    — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 29 July 2023
  • Located four doors down from MLK’s parsonage, the house was a haven for freedom riders.
    — The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Though the asking price is more than three times what was paid less than five years ago, a stately East Coast-style home a few doors down on just two oceanfront acres was sold last month for $47 million.
    — Mark David, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Two doors down was Viktor, who complained of repeatedly fixing holes in his roof from shelling.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Back in Owasso, a hairstylist who works a few doors down from Ms. Richardson’s bakery stopped by Tuesday morning to ask a favor.
    — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Read: Why adolescence feels so intense The archetypal sitter lived just a few doors down.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Neighbor Kisha Ross, 44, a delivery driver, insisted Farias has been living two doors down from her with his mom.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 6 July 2023
  • According to Rice, the renovation began in late 2021 and was finished about a year later, during which time the family was able to rent a house a couple of doors down the street.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Ironically, the second cousins are all getting together this month for a picnic and, just like them, two of those families live five doors apart.
    — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Luckily the street is an artists’ enclave, with some opening their homes up for Hantman’s dinner receptions — one in January served gumbo family-style two doors down at a local artist’s Midcentury Modern house.
    — Mariella Rudi, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • However, prior to the home invasion, the same individuals were seen two doors down burglarizing a community mosque, Fox 13 Seattle reported.
    — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 4 Feb. 2024

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