How to Use garage door in a Sentence

garage door

noun
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  • Don’t heat up the car in the garage with the garage door closed.
    — oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Try to park your car inside and keep the garage door shut.
    — CBS News, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The front high-rise door smoothly lifts up and around the oven like a garage door.
    — Andrew Watman, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Stash them out of sight, not on a hook by the garage door when you are parked at home.
    — Laura Daily, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Vents taller than a garage door let in air or shut out desert dust.
    — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The better deals will come later, when the lawn is clear and the garage door is about to be shut for the night.
    — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The garage door opened, Oceguera pulled his Civic inside and the door closed behind him.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The resident then heard their garage door open and shut.
    — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Apr. 2023
  • One of the would-be robbers broke down a garage door leading into the house.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Use tape loops to press the silhouettes into place on the garage door.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The garage door was open when investigators got to the house.
    — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Police found small droplets of blood by Jones's garage door threshold.
    — Michelle Miller, CBS News, 6 May 2023
  • The garage door behind the house was also open, and a screen from one of the basement windows was found nearby.
    — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
  • After years of battering, the garage door looks as pocked as the lunar surface.
    — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
  • The cost of replacing his garage door battery has more than doubled.
    — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Someone had thrown a rock through her parents’ window and sprayed a vulgar word on their garage door in red paint.
    — David Enrich, New York Times, 6 June 2023
  • Once inside, the suspects used a garage door opener from the vehicle to enter the garage through the overhead door.
    — Graydon Megan, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Make sure your garage door is closed and add insulation.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 17 Jan. 2024
  • According to Roth, the garage door detection feature can detect and alert you when the door is closed, opened, or left open.
    — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 29 Nov. 2023
  • That works well enough for the military vehicles and more primitive droids (the ones with heads that look like garage door drives).
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The room is an addition to a barn that was converted to a home in the 1930s, and Johns added windows that roll up into the ceiling like a garage door, opening the room to the trees.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 2 June 2023
  • Huge breaks in some walls exposed beams and pipes, and one garage door was almost completely flattened.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
  • The debris had damaged his neighbor’s house more, smashing a gate and breaking through a garage door, Mr. Armantrout said.
    — Corina Knoll, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Gentrification bonus point: if the box house includes a glass garage door.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Moments later, according to police, German opened his garage door, walked to the side of his house, and was ambushed by the assailant.
    — Megan Brown, CBS News, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Options include garage door braces, bolts that connect the roof to the foundation of the house or simple clips that can strengthen the roof-to-wall connection.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Although unloaded, the trap was connected to the main garage door so that it would be tripped when the door was opened, prosecutors said.
    — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 7 June 2023
  • The 30-seat cafe will be open for breakfast and lunch five days a week, Thursdays through Mondays, and will feature a roll-up garage door to open the dining room to the street when the weather is pleasant.
    — Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Officers were reportedly able to get through the garage door and attempt to get into the home, but the woman was on the other side of the door and fired at officers.
    — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 31 Aug. 2023
  • After closing the garage door, Varela restrained Kaleem and Aguilar shot him, prosecutors said.
    — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2023

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