How To Use Flight of stairs In A Sentence
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He probably would have still been teaching at Premiere Guild right now if he hadn't fell down a flight of stairs and broken his hip and bruised his tail bone.
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You may talk vaguely about driving a coach – and – six up a good old flight of stairs, or through a bad young Act of Parliament; but I mean to say you might have got a hearse up that staircase, and taken it broadwise, with the splinter – bar towards the wall and the door towards the balustrades: and done it easy.
A Christmas Carol
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A flight of stairs led down into the darkness.
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She walked around the ground level looking for the flight of stairs that led to the second floor.
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His mission was to make sure I didn't steal the scene by doing something unfortunate, such as tumbling down the flight of stairs that led from the set's upper level, where most of the supers mingled, to the stars who would be flirting and fighting and dining at the Café Momus below.
Bravo, to the Rear Stage
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He'd even led me up a flight of stairs, singing a little ditty, seemingly spry and agile and as dapper as any day in his six decades as an entertainer.
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Criticize and object a flight of stairs that is progress.
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Then he violently shoved her down the small flight of stairs that led off their bedroom to the bathroom.
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The two strangers led Midori and Aoi out and up a flight of stairs, onto the poop deck of the ship.
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A piano is a very unwieldy item to get down a flight of stairs.
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Luke asked as they walked down a flight of stairs and out of the terminal into the muggy morning air.
FALLOUT
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It was too much for her to stand and she stood up and walked up the next flight of stairs and to her room.
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When you fall down a flight of stairs, it's core that keeps you upright rather than ass over teakettle.
Superstars. blighted ones.
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Victoria collapsed and fell down the last few steps of an internal flight of stairs on Monday morning.
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A long flight of stairs made the center inaccessible to disabled visitors.
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His asthma made it difficult for him to breathe after climbing a flight of stairs.
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She walked around the ground level looking for the flight of stairs that led to the second floor.
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Another flight of stairs leads to a good sized attic room which could suit a variety of uses - a den, games room, home office or perhaps a teenager's bedroom.
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It led him down a long, narrow flight of stairs to a dark, dank basement.
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Participants of the study described the physical pain of not being able to lift one foot after another up a flight of stairs due to the heaviness of shoes.
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As Loveday and her companion mounted the last of the flight of stairs, the voice of the preacher – full, arrestive, resonant – fell upon their ear; and, standing on the small outside landing, it was possible to catch a glimpse of that preacher through the crack of the half-opened door.
The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective
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She fell down a whole flight of stairs.
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That could mean anything from a child of three trying to balance on a big brother's skateboard at the top of a flight of stairs, to little children swallowing marbles or other small toys.
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The duke and duchess gave a preview tour yesterday morning, leading the way up a colossal flight of stairs.
Times, Sunday Times
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He left me at the head of a flight of stairs leading to the basement.
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The Danish Kitchen in High Ousegate has no disabled toilets at all, and the ordinary toilets are up an impossibly steep flight of stairs.
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The doorman directed him up a hidden flight of stairs behind a velvet rope.
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A long flight of stairs made the center inaccessible to disabled visitors.
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I finally thought to get off on the fourth floor and descend a flight of stairs, only to find that a custodian had roped off that end of the third-floor hallway for mopping.
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We went up a flight of stairs crammed to suffocation by people eagerly waiting for the hall doors to open.
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Slowly, strained, the grate lifted and hung twenty feet above the opening, revealing a flight of stairs that descended downwards.
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We crunched our way on foot across the gravel towards the big front doors above a wide gentle flight of stairs flanked by ornamental urns.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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He ascended the flight of stairs that led into the relative brightness of the basement.
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Plus I was far less likely to further injure myself by taking a header down yet another flight of stairs.
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Curiosity took the better of me as I stepped the flight of stairs up into the dandy store.
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A piano is a very unwieldy item to get down a flight of stairs.
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Curiosity took the better of me as I stepped the flight of stairs up into the dandy store.
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Proposed changes include moving the box office, which is currently at the top of a steep flight of stairs, to the ground floor.
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Yet, when they find themselves out of breath after climbing a flight of stairs, they disregard the symptom, preferring not to consult the body's manual of operation.
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She stung him with a final look, then swung around and led two of the goggle-eyed warlocks up the flight of stairs to the porch.
BLACKWATER SOUND
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The villa is fronted by a double flight of stairs.
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Bungling bureaucrats even failed to inform people that there was a problem with the stairlift and that the only way to get to the first floor centre was up a steep flight of stairs.
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The duke and duchess gave a preview tour yesterday morning, leading the way up a colossal flight of stairs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each girl sat on one of the banisters of the staircase, sliding down the long flight of stairs, landing a few seconds before Nick in the grand hall.
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Lisa stepped off the flight of stairs and smiled at Danny, waving goodbye to Megan's mother.
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They walked down the one flight of stairs together, their footsteps echoing up through the empty house; out on the pavement he called a hansom, held his arm across the wheel as she stepped in; turned to the cabby, gave him his fare, told him Waterloo Station; then he leant across the step of the cab and held out his hand.
Sally Bishop A Romance
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To reach the lifts that are available, you have to climb a flight of stairs, which is no use for passengers with luggage, bikes, children and buggies.
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Access to the dining room in the north-east corner of the main block was then made via a short flight of stairs.
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We head up a rickety flight of stairs, pass through a wooden door, and suddenly my jaw drops open.
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This was gained by descending again to the cellar, by surrendering the brass check to a burly doorkeeper, and by climbing a long flight of stairs into the upper regions.
COFFEE-HOUSES AND DOSS-HOUSES
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But he slowly recovered himself after some profane mutterings, reeled up the next flight of stairs, and finally deposited his well-soaked clay on the bed in his own room immediately over mine.
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Three large bedrooms lie off the spacious landing at this level and a small flight of stairs leads to a fourth bedroom.
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We walked in silence up a flight of stairs and down a long corridor.
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More or less, this is some old guy barking out of key over the sound that happens when a garbage can gets thrown down a flight of stairs.
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I heaved myself and the table up the last flight of stairs.
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She raced past the library, nearly stumbling as she grabbed hold of the newel post at the base of another flight of stairs.
Charlotte’s Family Tree « A Fly in Amber
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Inside the doors of the Special Division building they were marched straight down a flight of stairs into a miasma of human misery.
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He led me out of the room into the foyer of the house, where there was a flight of stairs.
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He politely accepts a smaller room up a poky flight of stairs, where his tall frame seems ill at ease.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is arranged over three floors and there is another flight of stairs leading up from the car park to the courtyard.
Times, Sunday Times
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You may talk vaguely about driving a coach-and-six up a good old flight of stairs, or through a bad young Act of Parliament; but I mean to say you might have got a hearse up that staircase, and taken it broadwise, with the splinter-bar towards the wall and the door towards the balustrades: and done it easy.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Stave 1 Marley’s Ghost | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
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The center panel, executed in grisaille, shows the dog of the title - a pointer - walking down a flight of stairs somewhat uneasily, as dogs tend to do.
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She pushed a button, and a large flight of stairs descended from the ship to the ground.
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A piano is a very unwieldy item to get down a flight of stairs.
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The rescuers then battled to stretcher her down a flight of stairs and out on to a first-floor balcony.
The Sun
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I once saw him strap a refrigerator to his back and carry it up a flight of stairs, but now if he didn't sag under the weight of his steel toolbox, carried solemnly from house to house like a box of jewels, his face would redden with the effort.
Sam In Paradise
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Once there, Christine spoke to a chubby policeman who directed us to a flight of stairs.
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Department, "while beyond this second sanctum was a third door which led into the _sanctum sanctorum_ with its unexpected exit upon a narrow back hallway and a dusty flight of stairs by which it was possible without undue publicity to reach the street or, rather, the back lane where carters made deliveries.
Every Man for Himself
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A Prince George's County police officer pepper-sprayed an unresisting man, hit him with his fists and his metal police baton, threw him down a flight of stairs, then fatally shot him, according to witnesses who testified Thursday at a civil trial against the officer.
Witnesses: Cop shot unresisting man
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Access to the dining room in the north-east corner of the main block was then made via a short flight of stairs.
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Muketsu, the first in Chizome's line, climbed the short flight of stairs and stepped to the front of the altar.
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Mumphrey dragged her up a flight of stairs and beat her repeatedly.
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The man still continued down another flight of stairs from the landing of the second floor.
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From the private hall a flight of stairs led to the upper floor, where there were rooms for the postmaster, stores, telegraph linesmen, postmen, and the female clerks.
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Up four flight of stairs we fly -- for the bath is in the double-sunk story -- ten steps at a bound -- and in five minutes have devoured one quartern loaf, six eggs, and a rizzar, washing all over with a punch-bowl of congou and a tea-bowl of coffee.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
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We crunched our way on foot across the gravel towards the big front doors above a wide gentle flight of stairs flanked by ornamental urns.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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He lead up the flight of stairs to a small landing and then proceeded down a large, well-lit corridor decorated with huge tapestries.
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When he finally made it to the venue of Lord Fraser's inquiry into the new Scottish parliament building he was huffing and puffing - and was aghast to be met by a further flight of stairs to the waiting room for witnesses.
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The two domes were independent of each other, making it is possible for visitors to travel between the two domes on a walkway, after climbing a flight of stairs.
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The procession reached the foot of the long steep flight of stairs leading up to the temple.
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So while Nicole in a tight black dress was helped down a flight of stairs, the loved-up pair stayed inside.
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The two carried the unconscious body quickly to the tavern, through its small door and down a flight of stairs to a large room with cots and wooden beds lining the walls.
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He did not arrest the Claimant immediately because he thought that if the Claimant were arrested inside and resisted arrest then it might be difficult to get him down the narrow flight of stairs.
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It is arranged over three floors and there is another flight of stairs leading up from the car park to the courtyard.
Times, Sunday Times
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But in the courtyard here this afternoon is a scene of unusual glamour: an impromptu photo shoot is taking place on a flight of stairs?
Love, Belle and Sebastian-style
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I turned and fled down the first flight of stairs and stopped outside the door to the 9th floor, breathing heavily.
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`Insouciance" was the name of the place, tucked down a flight of stairs of a brownstone apartment building.
ICED
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After about a meter into the room a flight of stairs marched upwards, lit every so often by elaborate and rustic candleholders with red, thin candles.
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He tramped up a flight of stairs and appeared in the minstrels' gallery overlooking the main collection hall.
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I went down a flight of stairs to level three, the guys' dorms.
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The duke and duchess gave a preview tour yesterday morning, leading the way up a colossal flight of stairs.
Times, Sunday Times
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She descended one flight of stairs.
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Luke asked as they walked down a flight of stairs and out of the terminal into the muggy morning air.
FALLOUT
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I sneaked her across to the west wing of the mansion, and up the flight of stairs.
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The moment they were inside, a sharp-faced old woman led them up a wide flight of stairs while the guard returned to duty at the door.
Pathfinder
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No, but I am aware of them if I pant a lot climbing up in a flight of stairs.
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You may talk vaguely about driving a coach-and-six up a good old flight of stairs, or through a bad young Act of Parliament; but I mean to say you might have got a hearse up that staircase, and taken it broadwise, with the splinter-bar [258-8] towards the wall, and the door towards the balustrades: and done it easy.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
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At her bidding I followed Phyllis up a narrow flight of stairs and into the house's first-floor sitting room.
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As he ran up the flight of stairs, a superior smile twisted his scabrous face.
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Down one flight of stairs, in the tiny Green Room, the master distiller of the Buffalo Trace bourbon distillery is giving a master-class tasting.
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He stepped from the final stair, which led down a flight of stairs to the door, and could see endless sky.
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They had a big fish tank in one corner and he was trekking back and forth between that and a bannister by a flight of stairs way across the room.
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BOUNDING UP THE LONG flight of stairs at Moomba, New York's downtown club of the moment, Warren Beatty is living his contradictions.
Beatty Goes Bonkers
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Going up one flight of stairs to visit the lavatory is not worth recording as exercise for the average person!
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She fell down a flight of stairs / steps and hurt her back.
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As if his words were prophetic, at the top of the next flight of stairs they were spied by two men walking down the corridor.
SHARDS OF A BROKEN CROWN
