Sentences with phrase «screen door slamming»

There are pests in my world — ants, flies, wasps, giant hungry mosquitoes and more — and I find myself becoming irritated by their incessant buzzing and humming, until I hear the distinct whack of a screen door slamming.

And if I'd closed my eyes I could've seen what the building had been forty or fifty years before that, back when I was a young woman: a screen door slamming shut, oil lamps lit and sputtering black smoke, dusty horses hitched to the posts out front where the iceman unloaded every Wednesday afternoon, the last stop on his route before he headed up out of the holler, the bed of his truck an inch deep with cold water.

Ten - year - old Jason came into the kitchen, letting the screen door slam behind him.

Not exact matches

I have a surprise for you, he calls out, again and again, a chant announced by the ring that follows the slam of the screen door.

Come around to our back porch, step over nubby sticks of sidewalk chalk and scattered bubble wands, and open up the ancient screen door (I think you'll find it slams behind you in the most satisfying of ways) where you'll find a door with peeling paint and original hardware: the entrance to my office.

She heard the front door open and the slap and squeak of the aluminum screen slam shut.

Football on TV screens in bar creates the wrong impression Room was next to the cleaner's cupboard so the room was noisy for most of the time we spent in it which continued into the evening with lots of slamming doors all day.

Some of the extended bits that Fadem pulled off in that time: sitting down on a rubber stool, kicking a hole through a stage that would eventually collapse in full, slamming a weird sort of metal gate / screen - door combination affixed to the building's wall, jumping into the East River and then reappearing inside of a barrel of vaseline that was treated to looked like toxic sludge, hurling himself into a pile of cardboard boxes and then sounding the world's most pathetic airhorn, addressing the performance's one heckler with a drawn - out gesture involving his middle finger, drinking a number of glasses of water in rapid succession before moving to a sort of thick, clear liquid that he repeatedly spit up and attempted to drink again (I heard an audience member worry that this would trigger a series of chain - reaction vomiting in the audience.

I love what I call «slammy doors», the kind of screen door on a spring, that bounce off the house when they slam closed.

And real, wooden screen doors... there's nothing like that «slap» when it slams shut.

Seeing those old photos with the old style house with no AC, sandy floors, and a slamming screen door flooded my mind with many happy memories spent down the shore in the 60 ′ and 70's.