How To Use Stairs 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.
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.
I pulled on my jeans and ran downstairs.
The stairs are made from Douglas fir and all the internal floors are pitched pine.
A guard had dropped another large execution device they were carrying up the stairs to the raised wooden platform.
A fascinator, for those of you who have been living in a cardboard box under the stairs for the past six months, is a dinky little head piece that is set to knock the traditional big race day hats into a cocked hat this year.
Vertical circulation is primarily via lifts just inboard from these stairs, in a bull-nosed service tower sheathed in stainless steel.
The whole downstairs of the house smelled something awful for two weeks.
Basically, when I finally do repaper, it will involve painting and re-doing the entire upstairs of the house, and I will lose a whole summer of writing time. The knob theory of the universe
Together they climbed the dark stairs.
She ascended the stairs quickly, aerially, as in a dream. Times, Sunday Times
Och, sad mishanter! On the stairs Pate bursts upon them unawares.
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.
That's when his father took over what was then a restaurant and converted it into a grocery store; as of the making of the film, Toupin fils had lived in that same building (in an apartment upstairs) for all of his 52 years.
As the light streams through the windows of the minivan and reflects off Joni's earrings, Joel remembers the way the late-afternoon sun used to glint on the river as he made his way back from class to his off-campus apartment…the way his heart used to pound whenever he caught a glimpse of his downstairs neighbor, a balalaika player named Clarisse. The Search
She stood up and elbowed him in the back before turning on her heel and sprinting for the stairs.
This may be because when he started mixing up a bucket in the new kitchen, billows of dust began puffing under the doors onto my new upstairs carpets.
One night I was pouring my own drinks behind the upstairs bar.
Carlo lit a cigarette, and wishing the old woman a merry "addio" left and descended the stairs. Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
The tall graceful form of a woman appeared at the top of the stairs.
The principal rooms, both downstairs and upstairs, have decorative mantelpieces and cornices that are imaginatively conceived and neatly executed.
Finally at half-past three I went upstairs to dress as a grammar-school arriviste. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
The two other downstairs rooms, the breakfast room and the kitchen, were Florence's domain.
She crept upstairs, quiet as a mouse.
Descending downstairs feels like entering a 1970s vision of decadence – all red and gold sequinned drapes, geometric railings and carpeted walls. 10 of the best music venues in London
We would often retreat to one of the rooms upstairs. Times, Sunday Times
Ben left the blankets on the back of the sofa while he followed Hoss upstairs to gather his own warm clothes from his bedroom.
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
Jack came back upstairs moments after Sean and sighed heavily, slumping against the door, then quickly retreating to the safety of his office.
I was banished to the small bedroom upstairs.
Going upstairs to the third floor, there's some artwork from Morocco and a little outdoor deck.
Sighing, she shifted her grip on the painting and mounted the stairs.
She hurried downstairs to fix herself some breakfast.
All that remained was that lovely blank undecorated space upstairs which led up to the administrative offices.
He chased Kevin halfway up the stairs.
And I can hear the clump clump clump of the three posh post-university flatsharing chums thumping about their flat upstairs, slamming doors, shouting to each other and walking heavy-footed across my dream-flat.
From the sounds downstairs, my mother was trying to recover from last night's hangover and put on a decent dress for her daughters' weddings.
I sat down on the stairs, petted Cleo, leafed through my stack of mail piled in a mound on the bottom stair.
I have bats upstairs who will feast tonight, and that's good.
The stairs would do any Scarlett O'Hara justice in that the first landing leads to a bathroom, then ascends by a further five steps to the first bedroom.
DeLay is starting to resemble the Madam of a Whorehouse claiming that she had no idea what was going on upstairs, and she’s just shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover that the girls were involved in hanky panky. Think Progress » DeLay: ‘I Cannot Run For Office’ In Texas, ‘I’m Ineligible’
The creaking upstairs was starting to rattle me.
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step a time.
The mikko descended wooden stairs from his steep-roofed palace, its ridgepole adorned with sculptures of ivory-billed woodpeckers. Fire The Sky
One gave his own facemask to a desperate resident, then had to be helped down the stairs himself. Times, Sunday Times
He lifted me up on his back and gave me a piggyback ride downstairs.
We had to cart our luggage up six flights of stairs.
After ascending the elliptical stairs past a couple small galleries, one is immediately struck by the bright orange carpet laid across most of the fourth floor.
Quickly grabbing her stuff and clasping the key tightly in her hand she ran upstairs and went to the room at the end of the corridor.
He didn't attempt to swat it a third time, but opened the door, and stumbled downstairs, wailing. SACRAMENT
The house comprised a kitchen, a little hall, lower parlour, pantry, two cellars, a hall above stairs, an upper parlour and four chambers with cocklofts above.
I made it downstairs in time to get my taxi back to town with the others who live near me. The Sun
John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired
Crush two cacodemons and proceed downstairs to face more soldiers and a revenant.
After strapping the shoes securely to my feet, I ran down the stairs and to my black truck.
Some kids went up the stairs, and some waited for the elevator.
Luckily I smelled the noxious fumes, ran upstairs and managed to extinguish it.
Pondering the wisdom of basing a key joke on an obscure music reference that most people won't understand, I wander back downstairs to the lounge.
They complained about the excessive noise coming from the upstairs flat.
He fell downstairs and broke his wrist.
The Sergeant gave her a pentagonal shaped cabin slightly larger, slightly more comfortable than the one she had had downstairs, sporting retractable shelves which sprung out here and there to alter the shape of the room.
Rhosyn stood up as well, and walked up the stairs that wound up to her large room on the second floor.
The boiler, washing machine and dryer are hidden beneath the stairs.
The stairs were carpeted with a brown and blue floral design.
He schleps your bags upstairs and helps to keep values in proportion along the Italian Riviera.
And she descended the stairs and, tapping lightly on the door, turned the handle and went in.
She descended the stairs carefully because the shoes were pinching her feet.
Downstairs, a new "stereotactic" radiation therapy machine is capable of delivering a minutely focused, high-level dose of radiation to shrink or eliminate tumors. BangorDailyNews.com - News
But as the woman came down the stairs, Aislinn had to suppress a smile. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
By late August, a large office was located upstairs on the fifth floor.
If the doorbell rings, will I have to hide away upstairs? The Sun
The next morning I went downstairs and popped the hood and was aghast -- with an Arabian-Hebrew pronunciation of the "gh" -- guttural anguish. Ray Hanania: (Humor) Memorial Day Weekend Memories
I look at my big daft name on the back wall and nervously come down the stairs. The Sun
You may escort him upstairs and have the tailor called in to take his measurements for the new garments.
We take the car keys upstairs, but there's always a key to the front door in the hallway in case we need to get out. Times, Sunday Times
As Grant hurried down the narrow concrete stairs, he felt the first warning stab of pain in his torn thigh muscle.
Sunlight poured down from the window in the upper ante-room, to the twin flights of the stairs.
Eager hints would become rhapsodic proclamations; backstairs whispers would be babbled aloud in the corridors of the complex.
He laughed at the looks directed his way for the teasing, then went upstairs.
We will probably take down the wall downstairs after that and lay new floor and wallpaper downstairs before they come as well.
When he was gone she rushed upstairs and plopped down on a sofa next to a reading lamp in the anteroom and opened the folded paper.
Our flat, above the camel market, was leased from Signora, an old Italian lady who lived downstairs.
She ran downstairs as the raiders flung open drawers and sent furniture flying. The Sun
Slowly, I made my way downstairs, gliding my hand along the smooth wooden banister.
He politely insists that his unsuspecting victim, whom he has spied on the stairs of their apartment block, share a drink with him. Times, Sunday Times
Kyle and Louis, their hosts for the night, were indeed upstairs, in a paneled private room, reached after a long and disorienting trek through the interior of the club, across parqueted dining rooms, past bars and rest rooms, up two half flights of stairs that bookended a golden little cigar lounge. The Deed
Upstairs Kristin walked back into her room and through there into her bathroom where she undressed, sorted her clothes into the laundry hamper, and showered quickly.
Those Journos not "prioritized" were forced to line up in halls, down stairs, and out in the street to attend the screening of Up in the Air. Erica Abeel: Corporate Culture on Trial in Toronto
The downstairs of the two little houses had been entirely refashioned.
Katie crept up the stairs to her room and quickly riffled through her desk drawer to find her wallet.
A flight of stairs led down into the darkness.
Even the most stand-offish of neighbours had no choice but to bump into each other on the stairs.
He was looking around anxiously, glancing up the stairs and towards the kitchen.
I think the majority of those that sleepwalk is fairly harmless and quite normal actually, but there are a proportion that do injure themselves falling down the stairs.
Mrs. Hemmings, the housekeeper, went upstairs, imagining Horatio to be there. ALL ABOUT LOVE
While my father remained in the garden, I sent my dutiful compliments to my mother, with inquiry after her health, by Shorey, whom I met accidentally upon the stairs; for none of the servants, except my gaoleress, dare to throw themselves in my way. Clarissa Harlowe
Take the stairs instead of the lift to add a few extra steps to your daily regime.
Eventually they came clumping down the stairs - for their fancy dress they had all dressed up as school girls.
The baby was sound asleep upstairs.
We were soon led upstairs to the dining room which was fairly busy with both hotel residents and other diners.
An hour later it was still there, so I went upstairs to get my camera, and leant out the window to take a picture.
Avoiding the rain he ducked into a nearby building and fled downstairs to take a covered shortcut to his work area.
She spun away from the mirror and hurried downstairs, forcing the curling tension aside.
It is evening and Arthur and Rose sit themselves down at the kitchen table secure in the knowledge that Guy is upstairs with Rikki.
Ruth deposited her wet mackintosh on the floor and went upstairs, shivering every now and then.
Wilfred had screamed Cora's name, and she'd flown down the stairs to find Wilfred holding a senseless Jane in his arms.
The third bedroom is situated on the upstairs return and there is landing access to the attic.
Rudy Cardenas's brother kissed the stairs of the courthouse, I think signifying that justice had been served.
The next morning I waited until Marc went out and then I used mam's phone to call the police and grass Marc for the twenty grams of cocaine he had stashed in a haversack under the stairs.
Suddenly her heel caught in the stairs and she tumbled down, head first, ruining her flowers and expensive hair do.
The bar turned out to be surprisingly spacious, with a restaurant downstairs, and a bar with an attached roof deck upstairs.
Downstairs in the bar, they'll be screening 60s videos non-stop.
In the second room you'll find two habitués of Berghain's housier, groovier upstairs neighbour Panorama Bar, in the form of Steffi and Efdemin, while Innervisions duo Ame are the night's very special guests. Clubs picks of the week
Tell the boy to stop messing around upstairs.
Tolstoy tried to mix domesticity and family life, but he would come downstairs after writing and see his family playing and his eyes would well up.
He came puffing up the stairs.
Upstairs were decorative objects, documentary photographs, advertising posters, costumes, film clips and tchotchkes, interspersed occasionally with oil paintings.
At the bottom of the basements stairs that led down into the room was a table and chairs and two plush seats.
The pair sensibly attempted a less ambitious integration of moderate-size compositions in the more restricted space upstairs.
When we arrived home I trudged up the stairs on my own, as he remained downstairs.
She felt so sick that it was lunchtime before she could drag herself out of bed and come downstairs.
I hear a whimpering sound from upstairs. Times, Sunday Times
The prisoner escaped by the back stairs.
Bend your arms at right angles and pump them to help to get you up the stairs. Times, Sunday Times
Christopher Barreca's set is a round arena behind which stretches a steeply raked platform, half of which sometimes turns into a set of stairs.
Upstairs is the huge master bedroom with a pitched-pine floor and vaulted ceilings.
Not caring whether her mother was sleeping or not, Samara marched upstairs to the third floor of the house and to the master bedroom.
She's upstairs in bed feeling ill.
With my alarm, we have it set so at night there is an unalarmed 'pathway' down the stairs to the kitchen.
This nuns 'choir was in existence by the beginning of the fourteenth century, but may have been built along with the rest of the nave and may have been accessible by stairs near the chapterhouse in the west range of the cloister. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
One such piece was the framed Landsat photo of the Sahara that had been in her shop; an identical photo had hung downstairs in her home. WHERE THE HEART IS
This is the price that they expect me to pay for not getting downstairs quickly enough. Times, Sunday Times
Upstairs is the balcony and snack bar or ‘chuckwagon’ as it's known round these parts.
The boy posted upstairs, taking three steps at once.
A generous sun room leads off this, as does the teak staircase, leading to two upstairs bedrooms.
Upstairs, reporters jammed into a tiny antechamber, the shaggy cameramen and newspaper photographers chain-smoking and the lady reporters chattering nervously.
And say, ‘Let's get a hustle on back down backstairs, this wind is about to blow us both overboard!’
The second band upstairs was the rockabilly/swing band the Straight 8s, who were fun ok, I watched _Sha Na Na_ as a child, sue me. Gearchat, sportsfood, bad traffic and good music: a Saturday
Places (we often called them that instead of farms) that I knew about all had either stairs or backstairs to the servants quarters, so I was quite surprised to see that at Beamish ladders had been the order of the day.
The downstairs rooms are not as quiet as the upstairs ones.
There was a guy who used to carry his bicycle up to the third floor and pick all the bits of grit out of the tyres and chuck them down the stairs.
She was standing at the top of the stairs.
He began lugging the heavy gas station up the stairs. Globe and Mail
I almost jumped out of my skin when I heard a loud crash downstairs.
“Fell…?” said Vera, coming slowly down the stairs, holding onto the bannister. My Sweet Audrina
Went down stairs for dinner around 9pm where we were waited upon by a Chateau waiter who was fully obsessive compulsive and actually came by to "straighten" my silver wear at one point and bullied us into all ordering the same beverage. The Daily Truffle: Nicole Richie and LA's Young Hot Finest Pack the Penthouse, AKA Room 64
The accommodation includes an entrance hall with polished timber flooring, ceiling coving, recessed lighting and understairs storage.
Good hiding places include up a tree, under the stairs or inside a cupboard. Times, Sunday Times
Those who can't even write their names legibly can still check out the Fringe Gallery downstairs.
Kate brushed her hair and fixed her eye makeup before she went downstairs to join her family in the dining room for her birthday dinner.
His bedroom was above the kitchen and when his grandmother cooked blanquette de veau for Sunday lunch, the aromas would waft upstairs. Cookery masterclass: Alain Ducasse
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step a time.
Of course, when working at a major swim meet, I'm usually going to be constantly walking up and down many flights of stairs from the pool deck to the media tribune for several days straight.
I do not speak from personal experience, for I detest the sweet, cloying stuff; but it occasionally fell to my lot to guide down-stairs the uncertain footsteps of some ventripotent Kommerzien-Rath, or even of Mr. Over-Inspector of Railways himself, both temporarily incapacitated by injudicious indulgence in Swedish Punch. The Days Before Yesterday
He honked to hurry me up down the stairs.
The lounge is furnished with well-selected finds from local vintage shops, while the four subtly styled upstairs rooms all have shiny, polished parquet floors. South America: Perfect posadas
I finished eating my cereal and put it in the sink when I heard Kay coming down the stairs.
The neighbors downstairs banged on the ceiling and so then I began banging my head against the wall.
Another neighbour said he had heard that the woman had collapsed and fallen down stairs.
So he walked down the stairs and out onto the driveway and into a humid morning the color and consistency of simmering tapioca. VAPOR TRAIL
Anyone who could climb all these stairs was sound enough in wind and limb.
We could hear his footsteps clopping up the stairs and echoing down the upstairs hall.
I floated down the stairs with the soft fabric of the dress swishing around my legs.
He walked pinch-hitter Matt Stairs (FSY) with one out. Rockies top shaky Hamels 5-4, tie NL Division Series vs. Phils
In all the houses, suspended straight-flight stairs have treads and risers made of continuous sheets of folded steel with flat steel stringers.
I have also considered carefully the views expressed with regard to the quality of the stained glass on the stairs.
Nurse Callan taken aback in the hallway cannot stay them nor smiling surgeon coming downstairs with news of placentation ended, a full pound if a milligramme. Ulysses
Then he took me downstairs to a beautiful car, uniformed chauffeur and all!
After its passage along corridors and down flights of stairs, it seemed far too faint to rouse a heavily sleeping man. Times, Sunday Times
And then had to go and lock himself in the downstairs loo to think about it? Times, Sunday Times
Pergolas, open steel stairs, lattices and wooden blinds all act as shadow-casters and gnomons.
He kissed me softly before he left and I was about to ream him a new one before I saw Jason standing at the foot of the stairs.
‘We'll chuck your things in my room,’ Alex murmured as he began walking up the stairs to the second floor.
Sophie blew smoke up into light shafting down from an upstairs window. Lance Mannion:
BDownstairs, at the neighboring La Colonial Market, an employee barbecues chicken in a black kettle on the sidewalk.
There is effective use of puppets and perspective with the library stairs, and some clever lighting effects and physical comedy.
They refused to carry it down the stairs to my basement flat (notified in advance). Times, Sunday Times
Officers discovered her locked in a cupboard under the stairs and covered in cigarette burns.
Our classroom had a chart; on it an apricot glow marked the apotheosis of a vast flight of yellowed marble stairs.
Waking at Dawn two single thoughts consumed her, -- the Lay Reader, and the humpiest of the express packages downstairs. Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs
Completing the downstairs accommodation is a dual aspect dining room with another Adam-style fireplace and a bedroom which is currently used as a study.
The playtime is a distraction from what happened upstairs a few minutes earlier. KCCI.com - Local News
Getting on to the platforms is a huge problem for him as he is faced with steep flights of stairs he must climb before reaching the platforms.
He nodded abstractedly, went upstairs to the big, sunny sewing room, searched the family needlecase for a long stiff darning needle and extracted several rubber bands from the red cardboard box on the library table. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life
I looked to the left, the creaky stairs and the door shut tight.
She noticed that he was looking towards the stairs, so she turned her gaze there and was surprised to see Katz in her sleepwear, holding her teddy bear tightly in her arms while staring at them with wide eyes.
I was ensconced on the sofa reading the paper when its shrill beeping tone drifted down the stairs.
He slowly crept up the creaky wooden stairs to the moldy second floor hallway.
Now I have a temporary desk space in the upstairs back room we're using as a library, very cosy and snug, and a view over the belt of woody scrubland at the back of the estate.
With that Katherine quitted the room, and went down the stairs hippety-hop. A Rock in the Baltic
For there, high on a ledge in a dusty corner of the upstairs room, was a kestrels' nest complete with five eggs.
I fell down seven steep stairs on Saturday morning, a walloping, raucous ride on my butt bone into the basement.
In other news, I have a box of tissues here that I bought upstairs earlier to help with my snotty nose.

How To Use Stairs In A Sentence

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