[
US
/ˈstɛɹ/
]
[ UK /stˈeə/ ]
[ UK /stˈeə/ ]
NOUN
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support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
he paused on the bottom step
How To Use stair In A Sentence
- Upstairs were the bedrooms; mother-and-fathers room the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a washstand, a bureau, a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic. Chapter 1
- The officers ran out down the stairs and onto King Street, where the men of Lossburg's regiment had unlimbered a battery of cannons in a small park.
- Less than a minute later he had gone past the courts, down a stairwell and opened the fire door.
- Carlotta put the salve on Pierce's wounds, before joining her brother downstairs in the parlor.
- I've got a face like a punctured beachball, like an arse that's fallen downstairs, like a rucksack full of dented bells. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: What Not To Wear
- The mobs of drunken men are whooping it up upstairs.
- Just as she reached the stairs to enter the house, an ugly gelding cantered to a stop and the rotund rider ungracefully dismounted.
- In the last cliffhanger, downstairs lover Tony Head was caught sharing his Gold Blend nightcap with a mystery lady.
- Doctors put her on a respirator and wheeled her downstairs to the intensive care unit.
- They charged down the stairs to meet their grandmother.