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UK
/stˈeəkeɪs/
]
[ US /ˈstɛɹˌkeɪs/ ]
[ US /ˈstɛɹˌkeɪs/ ]
NOUN
- a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps
How To Use staircase In A Sentence
- At the bottom of the staircase a door opens into the white painted kitchen, where a small cooker supports an oversized kettle. Times, Sunday Times
- I drew for him a sectional view of the area, indicating the staircase and plaza above.
- The words heard by the party upon the staircase were the Frenchman's exclamations of horror and affright, commingled with the fiendish jabberings of the brute.
- The shot was filmed with the camera gliding down the empty staircase.
- Numerous period features remain: the Victorian staircase with its carved wooden banisters, the 1820s ornate stuccoed ceilings, the many stone and marble fireplaces.
- In the beginning, I had visions of a fabulous, sweeping, Perspex spiral staircase, ignorant of the fact that this would cost about £35,000.
- 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
- I became delirious, and quitting that staircase, which methought it was impossible for me to reascend, I sprung forth into the void with an execration. The Paris Sketch Book
- Two twin marble staircases curved upwards, leading to the second floor.
- A glass trap door looks through in to the cellar from the kitchen, and a circular staircase winds its way up to the tower. Times, Sunday Times