How To Use Up the stairs In A Sentence

  • A guard had dropped another large execution device they were carrying up the stairs to the raised wooden platform.
  • He chased Kevin halfway up the stairs.
  • Some kids went up the stairs, and some waited for the elevator.
  • Rhosyn stood up as well, and walked up the stairs that wound up to her large room on the second floor.
  • Katie crept up the stairs to her room and quickly riffled through her desk drawer to find her wallet.
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  • He was looking around anxiously, glancing up the stairs and towards the kitchen.
  • He came puffing up the stairs.
  • When we arrived home I trudged up the stairs on my own, as he remained downstairs.
  • Bend your arms at right angles and pump them to help to get you up the stairs. Times, Sunday Times
  • He began lugging the heavy gas station up the stairs. Globe and Mail
  • We could hear his footsteps clopping up the stairs and echoing down the upstairs hall.
  • ‘We'll chuck your things in my room,’ Alex murmured as he began walking up the stairs to the second floor.
  • Once again, there was the sound of footsteps thumping up the stairs.
  • I tried to slow my breathing as I listened to my mother's footsteps clunking up the stairs.
  • MEXICAN FOLK music blares from a boom box, the sounds of accordions filtering up the stairs.
  • A chorus of panicked disapproval shouted id way up the stairs. ICED
  • I watched an old woman pull herself up the stairs, holding on to a rail.
  • Armed with a third key, I tramp up the stairs once more.
  • He only looked up once she was gone, recollecting himself for a minute before following them up the stairs.
  • Relieved, we wobbled up the stairs to the restaurant.
  • Michel Roux was born above his grandfather's charcuterie in Charolles in 1941 and, from an early age, he learnt to tell what day of the week it was by the smell wafting up the stairs.
  • Already he discerned an air of bustle about the house, for Lady Hester's abigail was hurrying up the stairs, accompanied by one of the maids, and the stout housekeeper, pausing only to bob a curtsy to her master as he came out of the parlour, set her foot on the bottom stair and began to puff her way up. Gatlinburg
  • While climbing up the stairs the old man always loses his breath.
  • Many feel a choking sensation as they walk up the stairs. The Sun
  • He crept back up the stairs, trying to avoid the ones that creaked.
  • His own steps felt heavy and uncoordinated as he walked up the stairs to the master bedroom.
  • He opened the door and walked up the stairs up toward the music wing, the snow falling off of his cloths and shoes in huge clumps.
  • Padding her bosom, carrying around an effervescent cocksureness, he kicked his boots to the center of the room and whisked her up the stairs. We Stabbed and a Mighty Scarf Shot Red
  • The pencil light spun around, raked up the stairs, and speared straight into Carson's eyes.
  • She dragged me out of the bar stool and up the stairs.
  • Then the two confrères in evil would flee by helicopter (with me in the back seat, did they but know it) from the top floor of the Presidential Palace as the jubilant mob broke down the door and stormed up the stairs.
  • Though for several years it has been possible to climb up the stairs that form the front facade of the Victor Emmanuel monument in order to gain views across the city, on 2 June 2007, the terrace of the quadrigae atop the monument was opened to the public amid much political fanfare. Rome With A View at eternallycool.net
  • She jumbled her keys in the keyhole and waved a quick goodbye before running up the stairs.
  • My mother's voice floated up the stairs, informing us that desert was on the table.
  • She left him standing in the hall and followed the soft-footed, smiling Letje up the stairs; at least she was going to see something of the house. Politics 101
  • The hoses which the doomed emergency workers hauled up the stairs would have been completely ineffective.
  • The others quickly ran up the stairs, each one giving a loud squeaking noise.
  • She lugged the heavy case up the stairs.
  • I felt my way gingerly up the stairs, along a corridor, trying to find my dormitory. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mother came clunking up the stairs, and yelled, before she had to open the door.
  • The old lady climbed up the stairs with difficulty.
  • We get into the house, and while Nathan and his brother head straight for the living room, I run up the stairs and draw a long, hot bath for him.
  • He gently squeezed her hand and continued up the stairs to meet the others.
  • Water slopped out of the bucket as he carried it up the stairs.
  • Satisfied, Arlie started back up the stairs, but curiosity got the better of her.
  • Jim led the way down the hallway and up the stairs to their front door, shaking water off his jacket as he removed it.
  • He then hurried up the stairs and, grabbing Marlette's arm, propelled him through the door and into the church. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
  • When the rope got waterlogged, they lugged more of the heavy framed canvases up the stairs.
  • The light in the hallways isn't working so we walk into the house blindly, up the stairs and into the first bedroom.
  • They were halfway up the stairs when Nikolai placed his two wine bottles on the step above him, drew his pistol from his waist holster, and chambered a bullet.
  • Later, at the Croatia team base further down the mountain, she shuffles up the stairs ahead of me with a pronounced limp.
  • He can't decide what to tell her of that glorious night: leaping up the stairs to his digs, Julia behind him, heaping discarded clothing, scooping papers, books, socks from the sofa to make a space, wishing he had fresh milk in the fridge; through his curtainless window nothing more than the slimmest rib of a moon to judge them. Polly Samson | The Man Who Fell
  • She walked up the stairs from the landing to the main floor.
  • To-day he paid no heed to the merchant, when, having just keeked in at the schoolroom to tell Dr. Colin and old Brooks he would be back in a minute to join the dregy, he went up the stairs with Gilian. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
  • We made it up the stairs, and I sat dazedly on my bed while she got my spongebag and pyjamas out of my case. TIME OF THE WOLF
  • After they had carried the piano up the stairs, they stopped for a rest.
  • Upon which the L.C.J. ordered the Marshal to be called, and questioned him about the safe keeping of the prisoner, but could find nothing: except the Marshal said that he had been informed by the underkeeper that they had seen a person outside his door or going up the stairs to it: but there was no possibility the person should have got in. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories
  • It used to be a ventilation shaft, so at least you can breathe a little easier as you wheeze your way up the stairs. Times, Sunday Times
  • the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it
  • There is one particular moment when the two versions coincide and the woman is walking up the stairs on both monitors.
  • The banister shook under his grip as he pulled himself up the stairs. Raven
  • Peter came heavy-footed up the stairs and then went into his bathroom down the corridor. THE WHITE DOVE
  • I ran up the stairs, had a quick shower and came downstairs fully dressed and ready.
  • She poured herself a glass of orange juice and carried it up the stairs to her room.
  • I walked up the stairs and glanced back at his darkened form in the garden.
  • He followed me up the stairs into the lit up kitchen where the smells from dinner were still lingering.
  • I put my slippers back on and started up the stairs when a shrill cold scream sent a chill down my spine.
  • For a second I felt bad about what I said, but my anger quickly came back as I stomped up the stairs.
  • ‘I'm so not in spandex ’, I shouted back as I trotted up the stairs like a little piggy going to the sausage factory.
  • Hand on the oak banister, she found she had to pull herself physically up the stairs. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
  • Body shapes changed almost overnight as the effects of a famously punishing routine which included speedball sessions and was rounded off by hopping up the stairs at the Athletic Ground began to take their toll.
  • I got to school and traipsed up the stairs to my form room.
  • Tripping and stumbling in her haste, she raced up the stairs and pelted for her room at the end of the hall.
  • Two men who had run up the stairs behind me stared in disbelief and shouted to the driver to open the doors. Times, Sunday Times
  • He simply turned and started to move up the stairs, Trish still cradled gently in his arms.
  • When they were far enough down the long hall, they both broke into a run and shot up the stairs.
  • I heard someone coming up the stairs, so I quickly jumped into bed, and hid the backpack under the covers.
  • Sighing, Julie says a polite goodbye to Clark and disappears up the stairs.
  • The old lady climbed up the stairs with difficulty.
  • On the rare occasion when the escalator refuses to work, a massive pile-up is caused, the rewind button is pressed and people reluctantly divert their path up the stairs.
  • She wobbled back up the stairs and stood quietly in the doorway of her mother's room.
  • They fled to pray at the various altars or hide in the dark passages and recesses of the crypt or seek refuge up the stairs in the arched chambers of the roof.
  • She ran up the stairs to go to the toilet to be sick but collapsed on the landing.
  • A chorus of panicked disapproval shouted id way up the stairs. ICED
  • He would prefer to walk up the stairs than get closeted in a lift.
  • An unsuccessful attempt at Bohemian jollification is interrupted by the arrival of Musetta with Mimi, who could hardly drag herself up the stairs.
  • She carried on walking and went up the stairs to her bedroom, they obviously hadn't even noticed she'd gone.
  • He hopped back up the stairs and took his pistol.
  • The man gave Mr. Love one huge slug in the face just as Tommy and Joe, the security guards, hurried up the stairs, Tommy huffing frantically.
  • But nevertheless, she left the room and trudged up the stairs to the ship's deck.
  • As I pass through the door frame, I see four shadows trying to creep secretly up the stairs.
  • I ran up the stairs at full speed and knocked on his door, remembering the last time that I'd come over unannounced like this.
  • When I opened the door, I started jogging lightly up the stairs.
  • I hear the inevitable galumph of her broad ass up the stairs, the click of the tiny patent flats she somehow wedges onto her hippopotamus feet. Anhedonia (excerpt)
  • She stamped up the stairs in anger.
  • When I'm old and can't make it up the stairs you can stick me in one of those condos downtown that overlooks the ancient river.
  • I walked up the stairs to the double oak doors and rang the bell.
  • He went up the stairs to the lounge, his whole body expressing a disastrous draining away of confidence. DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
  • I can hear somebody coming up the stairs.
  • As I hurried up the stairs, the wailing grew louder. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
  • I heard my mom yell up the stairs, at the top of her lungs, even though I could hear her through our paper-thin walls if she just spoke it.
  • There is no music floating up the stairs, no sound of splashing water, no tendril of cigarette smoke snaking its delicate way towards the bed.
  • I didn't dare go up the stairs because I feared facing the grand Lady Nicole.
  • I helped her to carry her cases up the stairs.
  • Nate wobbled up the stairs and looked into Suzan's bedroom.
  • A chorus of panicked disapproval shouted id way up the stairs. ICED
  • With that, the three men tromped up the stairs, choosing whatever rooms they wanted.
  • He grabbed my right cheek and pinched it before going up the stairs.
  • After paying my two jiao, I started walking up the stairs to the gents' section.
  • Do not pound up the stairs!
  • Her footsteps clattered up the stairs, and in a minute she rushed into the room.
  • A mere moment later, the sound of footfalls was heard tromping quickly up the stairs, as in emergency.
  • I was trying to put the fire out and I just couldn't do it, and then all the smoke started coming up the stairs.
  • Krystal dragged her black duffle and hunter green sleeping bag up the stairs first.
  • Walking at a speed of 3.5 mph, hiking, carrying 16 pounds of load up the stairs.
  • She stomped up the stairs and slammed her bedroom door.
  • Karen runs up the stairs after her, as a defeated and dejected Mrs. Tilford slouches out the door.
  • Since most fighters were right-handed, the stairways were built in such a way that if you were trying to get up the stairs, the newel post is on your right-hand side.
  • Graham came up the stairs to find me going all gooey over a bookshop novelty from America, containing a small garden gnome, a patch of artificial grass and a stand depicting a cottage garden.
  • The smell of cooking drifted up the stairs and we descended with stomachs grumbling to the traditionally decorated restaurant.
  • Howland was a brave man; he had already showed both strength and prowess when, washed overboard in a "seel" of the ship, and carried fathoms deep in mid-ocean, he caught the topsail-halyards swept over with him and clung to them until he was rescued in spite of the raging wind and waves that repeatedly dragged him under; nor in the face of savage foe, or savage beast, or peril by land or sea, was John Howland ever known less than the foremost; but now in face of this angry woman he found naught to say, and blushing and stammering and half laughing fairly turned and ran away, springing up the stairs to the elevated deck cabins, in one of which Elder Brewster and his family had their lodging. Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims
  • She waved and walked into her apartment building, pulling out her key as she trekked up the stairs.
  • She ran up the stairs, her bare feet thudding on the wood.
  • Donnie promptly looked at Steven, and then began moving up the stairs with Steven trailing wearily behind.
  • We were tailed up the stairs by more than one guide-cum-secret agent, who first hovered and then circled repeatedly.
  • Tom and his six brothers are terrified as they huddle under the bedclothes, listening to the ogre coming up the stairs.
  • The entire parlor was in complete silence as I left and walked up the stairs.
  • Two men who had run up the stairs behind me stared in disbelief and shouted to the driver to open the doors. Times, Sunday Times
  • Intrigued, I walked up the stairs to use the men's room and discovered that the bathrooms were unisex.
  • Elliot was soaping his shoulder when he heard his father answer, the sound of a door slamming and a feminine voice squealing salutations up the stairs.
  • We manhandled the piano up the stairs.
  • Blair laughed, then followed Jim through the hatchway and up the stairs to the pilot house.
  • She went up the stairs slowly, but panting for breath and she held Emily tightly against her side. A Little Princess
  • One night toward the first of January he bounded up the stairs with more than his usual gayness and grabbed me in his arms.
  • He walked off and stomped up the stairs, giving Rebecca one last look.
  • Her three hounds leaped up the stairs at her heels, drooly tongues hanging out. Aphrodite the Beauty
  • They both walked up the stairs to get dressed for the long day that lay ahead of them.
  • She flew up the stairs and stopped at the door, ‘Nice to meet - thanks for - have a nice evening, bye!’
  • The sound behind him of the horses champing and snorting and the carriage creaking propelled him reluctantly up the stairs.
  • I sprinted up the stairs and shut my bedroom door behind me, locking it securely.
  • Scarlet with rage, she swept past her employer and stormed up the stairs.
  • She went up the stairs slowly, but panting for breath and she held Emily tightly against her side. A Little Princess
  • He was once forklifted onto a plane when he couldn't walk up the stairs to board.
  • Brad and Julia tramped up the stairs, each carrying a tray laden with food and cups of coffee.
  • No longer able to stand the silence I ran from the room, quickly finding my way up the stairs and to my own little sanctuary.
  • Michael's voice floated up the stairs before she could lie down again.
  • I bounded up the stairs, through a door at the top, and crouched, wheezing with terror, in a deserted passage, while the sound of a raging blackamoor bursting from the hotel in vain pursuit sounded below. THE NUMBERS
  • Dusty and seedy somewhat, as men are after a journey, I chatted with Mark and the noble peer for a few minutes at the door, while my valise and et ceteras were lifted in and hurried up the stairs to my room, whither I followed them. Wylder's Hand
  • Kit practically skipped up the stairs, causing Alan to smile softly to himself.
  • At the end of the session I ran back up the stairs, pausing halfway up to watch another set roll through - the first wave going unridden.
  • He started up the stairs, with me in tow, bags and all.
  • I wondered whether I should get out at the next floor and walk up the stairs to the canteen.
  • Without a sound Elizabeth slipped into the house and carefully crept through the kitchen and then up the stairs.
  • Walking up the stairs, you will find that baskets of fresh garlic, pepper, onion, radishes and carrots have become the ornaments, which can easily be seen in restaurants in France.
  • I tried to slip up the stairs unnoticed.
  • Up the stairs and to the right, far from the door but close to the dark, curtained windows, was a large porch swing.
  • Don't pound up the stairs!
  • Josh raced up the stairs and slammed into the wall, turned and resumed running.
  • Kari slit open the envelope as she trotted up the stairs.
  • If I can only get it up the stairs without barfing out a lung, the season will be off to a fine start.
  • I heard the front door slam violently and excited shouts float up the stairs.
  • Up the stairs, on the second floor, was an armory of the greatest weapons and articles of armor in the world, both mundane and enchanted.
  • Ryan bolted up the stairs and Sheehan went barreling after him.
  • He nodded, somewhat disconcerted by his mother's sudden generosity, and jogged up the stairs.
  • Derek carried Jessica up the stairs bridal style, ignoring all the stares and whistling sounds.
  • Out of breath,he spluttered he'd come up the stairs at once.
  • Mr. Percival was at home; and, without waiting to be announced, Ellery sprang up the stairs to the little sanctum where the two had confabbed on many a day. Jewel Weed
  • When she got home, she slowly plodded up the stairs and quietly closed the door behind her as she entered her room.
  • As he starts up the stairs, Harrison asks him where he is going.
  • He walked up the stairs and to the main hallway, from which stairways led up to different floors.
  • As quietly as he could he headed up the stairs, revolver cocked and ready in his hand.
  • She lugged the heavy case up the stairs.
  • Slowly and stealthily, someone was creeping up the stairs.
  • But I would plump for the chairlift which wheeches you up the stairs, a handy device if you have had a bottle or two too much of the tonic wine.
  • Brad and Julia tramped up the stairs, each carrying a tray laden with food and cups of coffee.
  • I was pleased by the lack of alarm bells and a munted doorway as I shot up the stairs into my smoky lounge.
  • He hadn't heard her come up the stairs or enter the apartment he was so absorbed in his book.
  • Chris ran up the stairs and followed the sound of Star humming.
  • After I was done, I grabbed my bag and ran downstairs, only to find Eric climbing up the stairs.
  • I heard the door open downstairs and my brother bomb in and up the stairs.
  • Passing the hulk of a man - even now Charlie couldn't quite see his face, it was too high up and obscured in the dim lights - the boy went up the stairs and back into the main area of the rest stop building.
  • It seems fitting to begin the tour in the Italian galleries, reached through the classical courtyard and up the stairs to rooms off the loggia.
  • We made it up the stairs, and I sat dazedly on my bed while she got my spongebag and pyjamas out of my case. TIME OF THE WOLF
  • Kissing my mother and padding her bosom, carrying a banal effervescent cocksureness, he kicked his boots to the center of the room, and whisked her up the stairs. Carolina Grüber: I
  • I've seen McTurk being hounded up the stairs to elegise the 'Elegy in a Churchyard,' while Stalky & Co.
  • She went up the stairs, holding on to the bannister for direction. For the Sake of the Boy
  • He trod heavily and reluctantly up the stairs.
  • He went up the stairs and was headed for his room when he was stopped by Minako.
  • He added that receptionist Rita Dixon, who was bundled up the stairs by the robbers with a gun at her back, now wanted to frame the ad and put it on the wall.
  • I got closer and another Hassid walked me up the stairs of the crumbling stone building and said, This Jew wants to find the Lubavecher Chevre Kadisha. Postcards from Heaven
  • There was no lift so I had to lug my bags up the stairs.
  • He vaulted up the stairs two at a time, and knocked on the door twice before entering.
  • He pulled himself up the stairs, tired out of his mind.
  • I walked through the waterfall and up the stairs (which also had water cascading down them).
  • He tore up the stairs without touching a single tread, flung open the door of his room, tore open the window in its turn and flung from it a piece of Moroccan red about half the size of a toffee.
  • The building porter saw what was going on outside from his vantage point in the lobby, saw my little hand at the open fourth floor window, chased up the stairs and gave me huge telling-off.
  • She ran up the stairs, her bare feet thudding on the wood.
  • Without thinking, Ryan bolted up the stairs, leaving the children to struggle on their own.
  • Dashing up the stairs she'd crept to her bedroom, taken a few deep breaths, and then shiveringly pulled out from underneath her shirt the object of her impromptu burglary and lo and behold!
  • He was about to say more when they heard the door slam downstairs and footsteps hurrying up the stairs.

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