How to Use ground floor in a Sentence

ground floor

noun
  • The best way to see how big this could get is to get in on the ground floor.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The stairs were added to link the ground floor to the childrens’ rooms on the second floor.
    Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 20 Sep. 2021
  • The refined living room sets the tone for the ground floor.
    Natalia Rachlin, ELLE Decor, 17 Feb. 2021
  • The Mudd Club, a punk-rock venue, was on the ground floor, playing host to bands like X and the B-52s.
    Bill Donahue, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Both The Charles and the hotel are to feature restaurants on the ground floor.
    Tony Semerad, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Plus, the unit — which is on the ground floor — doesn’t get much light or have any views.
    Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2021
  • Rum offers consumers the chance to get in at the ground floor.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2021
  • The survivors were on the ground floor while the four victims were on the second and third floors.
    Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 30 Dec. 2022
  • This time around, Tomlin is coming in on the ground floor.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2022
  • The house is built on a slope, with steps leading up to the front door and a living room on the ground floor.
    Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 10 June 2021
  • All ground floor apartments will have front porches to open to the street.
    Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 15 Aug. 2021
  • All ground floor apartments would have front porches open to the street.
    Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 10 Apr. 2022
  • New sports bar on ground floor has 16 TVs and live betting.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Shops would line the first two floors, with a small and intimate whiskey den on the ground floor.
    Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 17 May 2021
  • The ground floor of Caviar Russe now has a raw bar, Champagne, and cocktail lounge.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Plans are for the theater to occupy three-fourths of the ground floor and the basement.
    Doug George, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2020
  • With a sleeper sofa on the ground floor, the Silo sleeps up to four.
    Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Daniels is already planning an art gallery on the ground floor of one of her homes.
    Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 2 May 2021
  • Paintings by Basquiat, Miro and others could be seen over the years through the wall of glass on the ground floor of the building.
    Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Three floors lost walls and windows, and a store on the ground floor was reduced to rubble.
    Nora Gámez Torres, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2022
  • On the ground floor was a handy restaurant, a barber shop and a tailor’s shop.
    Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 7 Nov. 2020
  • On the ground floor of the former Gramercy Park Hotel last night.
    Curbed, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The scrolls were stacked in bags and shoved into old glass cabinets on the ground floor.
    Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2021
  • Yup, the room was empty; yup there was a wide-open ground floor window.
    Star Tribune, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Seawater flooded the ground floor to a depth of over 8 feet.
    Star Tribune, 26 June 2021
  • Look out for the 40-meter-high waterfall and gourmet food stalls on the ground floor.
    Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2021
  • Long freight trains snake along the ground floor of America.
    Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Funke and Mortensen were on the ground floor of the off-campus residence and the killings took place on the second and third floors.
    Corin Cesaric, Peoplemag, 5 Dec. 2022
  • On a recent visit, Mr. Towns carved out time to grab a coffee at the colorful Rose Bakery on the store’s ground floor and indulge in a little shopping.
    Gerald Narciso, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Marshall and co-founder Tina Barkley were on hand for the opening Wednesday and congratulated the artists at a reception held at Eataly, a longtime partner that has one of the mannequins on its ground floor.
    Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025

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