: a bell or set of chimes to be rung usually by a push button at an outer door
Examples of doorbell in a Sentence
We rang the doorbell until someone came to let us in.
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Authorities spent nearly two weeks combing the southern Arizona landscape, sorting through doorbell footage, pondering what could have happened to the mother of three.
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Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026
The footage was obtained via Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell and security cameras.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 11 Feb. 2026
The images released by the FBI show the logo for Nest, a smart doorbell brand owned by Google.
—Tom Winter, NBC news, 10 Feb. 2026
In Idaho, footage from doorbell, surveillance and in-store security cameras helped investigators secure a guilty plea in the 2022 murders of four college students.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 10 Feb. 2026
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Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026
The footage was obtained via Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell and security cameras.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 11 Feb. 2026
The images released by the FBI show the logo for Nest, a smart doorbell brand owned by Google.
—Tom Winter, NBC news, 10 Feb. 2026
In Idaho, footage from doorbell, surveillance and in-store security cameras helped investigators secure a guilty plea in the 2022 murders of four college students.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 10 Feb. 2026
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“Doorbell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doorbell. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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doorbell
noun
door·bell
-ˌbel 
: a bell, gong, or set of chimes to be rung usually by a push button at an outside door
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