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[ UK /lˈædɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫædɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs; for climbing up or down
  2. a row of unravelled stitches
    she got a run in her stocking
  3. ascending stages by which somebody or something can progress
    he climbed the career ladder
VERB
  1. 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
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