How To Use Upstairs 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 mobs of drunken men are whooping it up upstairs.
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
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.
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.
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
She crept upstairs, quiet as a mouse.
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.
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.
All that remained was that lovely blank undecorated space upstairs which led up to the administrative offices.
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.
I have bats upstairs who will feast tonight, and that's good.
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.
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.
John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired
Luckily I smelled the noxious fumes, ran upstairs and managed to extinguish it.
They complained about the excessive noise coming from the upstairs flat.
He schleps your bags upstairs and helps to keep values in proportion along the Italian Riviera.
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
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
He laughed at the looks directed his way for the teasing, then went upstairs.
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.
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.
Mrs. Hemmings, the housekeeper, went upstairs, imagining Horatio to be there. ALL ABOUT LOVE
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.
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.
The third bedroom is situated on the upstairs return and there is landing access to the attic.
The bar turned out to be surprisingly spacious, with a restaurant downstairs, and a bar with an attached roof deck upstairs.
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.
Upstairs were decorative objects, documentary photographs, advertising posters, costumes, film clips and tchotchkes, interspersed occasionally with oil paintings.
The pair sensibly attempted a less ambitious integration of moderate-size compositions in the more restricted space upstairs.
I hear a whimpering sound from upstairs. Times, Sunday Times
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.
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.
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
The downstairs rooms are not as quiet as the upstairs ones.
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
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
We could hear his footsteps clopping up the stairs and echoing down the upstairs hall.
Sophie blew smoke up into light shafting down from an upstairs window. Lance Mannion:
The playtime is a distraction from what happened upstairs a few minutes earlier. KCCI.com - Local News
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
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.
For there, high on a ledge in a dusty corner of the upstairs room, was a kestrels' nest complete with five eggs.
In other news, I have a box of tissues here that I bought upstairs earlier to help with my snotty nose.
Sally Baker gave a complimentary nod as Tess reappeared from upstairs.
Upstairs in the big bedchamber is a ceiling of beams worked in bold roll mouldings; and there is an exquisite little parlour, lined with linen fold panels, with a breastsummer carved with strange animals. Medieval People
Lights were burning upstairs, but no one answered the door.
Upstairs the first bedroom includes fitted wardrobes, a window seat with storage space and a wooden floor.
Paul disappeared upstairs, and came back down with a dry sweater and a thick woollen blanket.
She could hear banging coming from the room upstairs.
Upstairs, we had the run of the deck, from where we were served sumptuous meals. Times, Sunday Times
I found this book kicking around upstairs; is it yours?
It turned out to be caused by a faulty washing machine in the rented flat upstairs. The Sun
The top stair creaked as she went upstairs and the noise woke up her mother.
His wife Angela was upstairs bathing the children at their home.
We had the restaurant on the ground floor and the building became available upstairs. Times, Sunday Times
In a darkened hallway, a young girl and her parents stare after the teenager tramping upstairs.
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
It would not have surprised me if someone had opened fire on us from an upstairs window.
Maybe she would go away after a while, but all the same he had to go upstairs and past the kiosk and the bar if he wanted to get to the entry doors.
If you're running upstairs, go to my room and bring down my sweater, please.
They were very curious about the people who lived upstairs.
Finally, the bags were upstairs, the sleigh put in the barn, and the horses tended.
Later, from his upstairs bedroom, he saw the crashed aircraft.
We were given a table in the upstairs section that seated us all.
Sometimes they come in busloads and make it upstairs for a cup of tea before being personally guided round the garden or through the museum.
The man who once had heart bypass surgery declines to take a lift upstairs to his office. Times, Sunday Times
The deskman saw me and said, `Detective Hinton is in his office, sir, upstairs and third on the left. SNOWJOB
The cat belongs to the people who live upstairs.
Which means I have to take a detour from my trip to the bathroom, to go the supply closet upstairs and locate more toilet paper or paper towels or whatever else is needed.
Listen, you hang round here for a minute while I switch everything off, and then I won't have to come upstairs again.
I had put on my clothes, brushed my teeth, fixed my hair and cleaned up my room a little before they came back upstairs.
We noticed that the upstairs floor dipped and asked for it to be fixed. Times, Sunday Times
The Saders have a no-name backline, but they have it together upstairs and collectively, the Canes, er, do not. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
Less than a half hour later he returned upstairs.
Our techie found that the issue was a dead battery on the upstairs server.
I found this book kicking around upstairs; is it yours?
Lookee, at lock-up hour, Ill return and bring ye upstairs to himBut ye must stay a night in his cell, for I am under needcessity to carry the keys to the captain for the night, and I cannot let you out again until morningthen Ill visit the wards half an hour earlier than usual, and ye may get out, and be snug in your ain berth when the captain gangs his rounds. Chapter LVII
Despite having been taken outside 3 times before 3pm today, he still decided to wee on the floor while I was busy working upstairs.
Upstairs, the ceiling was still securely in place.
I could hear him thudding about upstairs in his heavy boots.
Most ravers started upstairs where the music was hard.
I don't want any of you children crashing around upstairs while your father's asleep.
After mechanically putting the food in her mouth, Jenny barely managed to stumble upstairs and fall into bed.
We had new windows copied from the originals and fitted with double glazing, so now it's much quieter upstairs. Times, Sunday Times
He didn't know about it so I ran upstairs to get his stocking off the bottom of his bed.
The police managed to gain access through an upstairs window.
She led me upstairs and showed me a narrow room with a long line of narrow cots.
I went upstairs for my afternoon siesta.
He led me upstairs, into a seductive little bedroom lit with candles and fragrant with more incense. Times, Sunday Times
At present, it is split into a museum on the ground floor and an art gallery upstairs.
Would you like to see the upstairs?
Upstairs in stately Norris Hall, sits a room full of my current office setup. 40 plus Mac Pro towers adorned with 22 inch Cintiqs. PvPonline » Archive » More thoughts on SCAD
She shucked off her jacket and ran upstairs.
My daughter followed him upstairs as she heard him saying 'Oh dear' and shut the door behind him. Times, Sunday Times
DOWNSIDE Only one bedroom upstairs with another downstairs and a third in the annexe. Times, Sunday Times
The other large upstairs gallery is devoted to a messier esthetic.
An ash staircase leads upstairs where an ash balustrade forms a minstrel's gallery overlooking the entrance hall.
Upstairs there are two double bedrooms to the front of the house, both with built-in wardrobes and sink units.
After the Ascension the disciples, according to their Lord's instruction, prayed together in the upstairs room where they were staying.
The two upstairs bathrooms also have blue carpets with whisper grey suites.
The housekeeper vows that he never left his glass box at the foot of the stairs from the time Samuel went upstairs first to the time when he came down again, vastly agitated, at a quarter-past one, and sent a message; and during all that time _Denson never passed the box_! The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator
Chip was standing at the foot of the stairs, as the upstairs emptied quickly.
Upstairs, the master bedroom is floored in solid ash and includes a dressing room with fitted wardrobes and presses as well as an en suite shower room.
There's a large drawing room with a fireplace and upstairs the eight rooms are beautifully furnished. Times, Sunday Times
I'm either in the kitchen, where Hillary and I and Chelsea, when she's home, we have our meals in a very informal atmosphere in the kitchen when there's no one else there, or I'm upstairs in what's called a solarium, it's up on the third floor, and it's a big kind of sunny room. Interview Of The President By Espn Radio
I simply took the upstairs connection and plugged it directly into the internet/cable splitter, thus reducing one splitter from the equation. Bday wish!
What if he knows Mick's upstairs, what if he's rumbled our game?
We do fittings and make design changes in the office upstairs. Times, Sunday Times
Every now and again she went upstairs to see if he was still asleep.
Upstairs there is a collage of yellowing contemporary newspaper and magazine clippings, and a large photograph of our hero.
You don't have to go running upstairs every time she rings.
Lenny could hear Mr. Trancas upstairs, saying, in a happy voice, `So, how shall we do it, Woodrow ? THE TEACHER
Is that your quarrel with what you call the upstairs god system? South Wind
Anyway, at last I got absolutely blind drunk through depression, went upstairs to Freda's bedroom and cried myself to sleep.
So would she feel more at home upstairs or downstairs? The Sun
The film gives us a sense of symmetry when, at the end, we see that upstairs hallway dotted with picture hooks - all but one of the photographs are gone.
After a brief sweep of the main floor, Ally went upstairs.
But cajoling the more timorous to leave the building's downstairs social area to venture upstairs, on time, to a place where discipline is expected needs more effort. Belshazzar's Feast; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Christmas project – review
She took my hand and we went upstairs to her bedroom. The Sun
Paul went upstairs to spruce up before dinner.
The high-set teak timbered house was filled to capacity as the 200 guests trooped upstairs, sat and knelt on the floor.
I walk back upstairs with pints, quarts, a bag of crisps.
Once Kipling got his Nobel, he was kicked upstairs to the more respectable niche of assistant editor, as per the Pioneer apocrypha.
But I was tickled most by the rooms of its farmhands and their own kitchen and dining room - all beautifully, designedly rustic - that suggested ‘downstairs’ is the new ‘upstairs’.
She's waiting for you in the conference room upstairs.
My absolute dream has always been to live and work in the same space - work downstairs then scuttle upstairs to a nest in the rafters.
We were led upstairs, extremely exhausted, to the smarmy commissar's luxurious office with bedroom and en-suite bathroom.
It turned out to be caused by a faulty washing machine in the rented flat upstairs. The Sun
Ted had got the girls 'room upstairs, and Dad and Mum had titivated up the big old room for me, colourwashed it and all when they heard I was coming home; they'd gone to a lot of trouble over it, working at it over the week-end. ROUND THE BEND
We were shivering so much that we decided to go upstairs and put very hot water into the bathtub.
I was just about to go upstairs and seek him out when Gosling came sauntering along the bay. THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
And I think Theo must have realised he'd overstepped the mark because when we got back he went straight upstairs. RESCUING ROSE
Will you come upstairs, Dr. Watson, and inspect my collection of lepidoptera? The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars
He beckoned to the ones he had called, and we followed him to the upstairs.
The thick smoke and flames trapped people upstairs.
From upstairs, they could hear the rough arhythmic sounds of Billy's snores. Baby Games
Originally a bungalow, it now has an upstairs bedroom with a balcony and a wet room. Times, Sunday Times
Stomach grumbling, I looked up at the clock - It was about noon - grimaced, and grabbed a banana off the counter, padding upstairs.
‘Nothing, mom, she just wants to come over’ I clumped back upstairs and changed into a teal sweater and khaki bell-bottoms.
I'll wait for you down here, "for she didn't want to go upstairs in front of him, showing her undefended back. LOST CHILDREN
There's a large drawing room with a fireplace and upstairs the eight rooms are beautifully furnished. Times, Sunday Times
The basement's big, unused front room must be finished in durable burlaps and grass matting for Uncle Chester; there must be a bath upstairs; two rooms for Aunt May and the girls, one for Grandma, one for Julia and little Anna. The Story of Julia Page
Upstairs were the bedrooms; "mother-and-father's 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 The Magnificent Ambersons
For some years afterwards, our tatty red velvet curtains were still hanging in the upstairs window. Times, Sunday Times
On that occasion Jason, then four, smelt the smoke and the family escaped but the upstairs of the house was badly damaged and Miss Russell remembered the advice firemen gave her then.
I like to have mud on them about the consistency of gurry -- that is, not too wet -- because then it will all drip off on the way upstairs, and not so dry that it scrapes off on the carpet. Love Conquers All
The children slept in a loft in the upstairs bedroom.
Not too many interior walls since they converted the upstairs storey from five shoebox rooms and a landing to one big space.
I hung out the upstairs window all agog as women wearing straw hats, flowery dresses and white gloves, accompanied by men sporting soft hats and three-piece suits with gold watches peeking out the waistcoat pockets arrived at our house.
I went upstairs on the roof and sat among the potted plants, among the violets and chrysanthemums and marigolds and daisies.
Hester Wells lay in her bed upstairs, incorporeal beneath strata of covers, not knowing who she was. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
The Dressing Room is a bilevel store featuring a boutique upstairs, a vintage-clothing exchange downstairs, and a full bar. Can Shopping be Fun Again?
Rose, on her hands and knees on the upstairs landing as she did an emergency sort-out of the airing cupboard, rolled her eyes. JUST BETWEEN US
She crept upstairs, as quiet as a mouse.
When we see him doing weird and bizarre things - like tossing furniture from upstairs windows - it's natural to assume he's beyond eccentric and into the seriously flaky.
His mother on discovering this note pinned to her chair gave way to very natural alarm and rushed upstairs to her darling, with whom she remonstrated in terms deservedly severe, pointing out the folly and wickedness of self-destruction and urging that such thoughts were unfit for one of his tender years, for he was then barely thirteen. On Nothing and Kindred Subjects
They're both asleep upstairs, but you don't mind listening just in case of trouble, do you?
An overheated tumble dryer is thought to have caused the blaze, which spread from the kitchen to the upstairs of the rented house, at about 2am.
“Where is the outreach center again… is it downtown still?” one congregant asks another as they walk upstairs after Sunday services. American Grace
She lives upstairs and comes down the fire escape to visit Jack whenever her no-good mom is entertaining, which is a lot.
They huffed and puffed as they carried the sofa upstairs.
In Moles' homely upstairs cafe area there's a complementary side order of 1950s and 60s dancehall classics with a beady eye on the shimmy and shake favourites of Motown and doo-wop. Clubs picks of the week
We heard the floorboards creaking in our room and my husband ran upstairs and caught his dad with his hand in my underwear drawer. The Sun
Sherwood, 45, revealed the advice to move upstairs came after a string of recent flareups in the dugout. The Sun
If you need extra space then the attic upstairs could be easily converted into two more rooms.
The tea things are upstairs; could you carry them down for me?
Upstairs, etched glass light wells diffuse luminance into the restaurant and glazed screens enclose private rooms.
The old lady was upstairs.
Upstairs is a more intimate bar where guests can relax in comfort.
It turned out to be caused by a faulty washing machine in the rented flat upstairs. The Sun
She ran upstairs and began blow-drying her hair.
He would have to trust to his luck that while he ran from the bushes to the awninged back door, no one upstairs was gazing into the backyard. Naked Cruelty
An upstairs neighbor, wakened by her car horn.
This little society now past two or three very agreeable hours together, in which the uncle, who was a very great lover of his bottle, had so well plyed his nephew, that this latter, though not drunk, began to be somewhat flustered; and now Mr. Nightingale, taking the old gentleman with him upstairs into the apartment he had lately occupied, unbosomed himself as follows: - The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
The lads upstairs were having a sports night in with, I suspect, more than a few beers.
Dad's upstairs getting cleaned up .
Her parents shut her in an upstairs room.
The apprentice is nearer the long long thoughts of boyhood, and his imagination rides cap-a-pie through the chambers of his brain, seeking some knightly quest in honour of that Fair Lady, the last but one of the girl apprentices to the dress-making upstairs. The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll
Reading the look on her husband's face, Marie scooped up a very dirty Little Joe and beckoned to Hoss to follow her upstairs.
They were taken to a room upstairs at about midnight. Times, Sunday Times

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