[
UK
/lˈædɐ/
]
[ US /ˈɫædɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫædɝ/ ]
NOUN
- steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs; for climbing up or down
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a row of unravelled stitches
she got a run in her stocking -
ascending stages by which somebody or something can progress
he climbed the career ladder
VERB
-
come unraveled or undone as if by snagging
Her nylons were running
How To Use ladder In A Sentence
- Jane's language skills enabled her to forge ahead on the career ladder.
- The ceiling he had just plastered fell in and knocked him off his ladder.
- I was filming a music video in Central Kingston in the middle of general elections, when gunmen shot up a group of people on the corner playing ludo (snakes and ladders) and dominoes.
- A top bunk was then pulled down from the ceiling, complete with ladder.
- Cancer of various organs, not only the lung, but also the larynx, bladder and oesophagus.
- Dishonesty is always one way of climbing the ladder of success, but dishonest intentions and manipulations are more prone to fail. Dr T.P.Chia
- Caspian led them down a ladder into the after hatch.
- Still in shorts and trainers, I climb the ladder and open the hatch. Times, Sunday Times
- Those buyers not up to speed might find they are left behind in the scramble to get onto the property ladder. Times, Sunday Times
- The houfes of the town of Puna are built on pofts ten or twelve feet high, into which they go up by ladders, and are thatched with palmeto-leaves: the like contriv - ance I have feen among the Malayans in the Eaft Indies. A new collection of voyages, discoveries and travels : containing whatever is worthy of notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America
