How to Use stairway in a Sentence
stairway
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At times, Watkins, then 30, had to stop on the stairway to catch her breath.
— Liz Szabo | Kff Health News, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2024 -
The open stairway in the front hall leads to the second floor and four of the home’s five bedrooms.
— James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 12 Apr. 2022 -
The main stairway leading from the front door up to the living room.
— J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2021 -
Inside the five-room frame home, a stairway leads from the kitchen to the attic.
— Eddie.morales@jrn.com, Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2022 -
Think of the stairway in Titanic or Gone with the Wind.
— Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 3 Jan. 2023 -
Most of the Ocean Street stairways were built in the 1980s, and are badly weathered and worn.
— Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 June 2018 -
One was found at the top of the split-level stairway and the second was found in one of the bedrooms.
— Alex Chhith, Star Tribune, 23 Mar. 2021 -
An open stairway from the 14th floor to the 12th floor at the State Street space inside One Congress.
— Catherine Carlock, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023 -
Through the arches at the top of the stairway is a central open-air courtyard.
— Ray Parisi, CNBC, 12 July 2024 -
The other side of the wall is where the stairway descends to the second level.
— Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2023 -
At the bottom of the stairway on the lower deck is a wall-sized photo of a school of reef fish.
— Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 9 July 2021 -
The garage, a laundry room and a stairway leading to the house’s first floor were damaged.
— oregonlive, 21 Jan. 2020 -
Tensions then moved to the sideline, then up a stairway and into the crowd.
— Aaron Credeur, Washington Post, 11 July 2024 -
The suit argues that a seawall by the long stairway to the beach stopped erosion around the stairs but weakened the bluff at the ends of the wall.
— Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2020 -
An inspector had found lead paint and dust in two bedrooms and the stairway of the home.
— New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022 -
Then there’s the stairway leading to a hatch that opens onto the roof, where Zdarsky showed me his sniper’s nest.
— Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023 -
Outside, the team built an outdoor stairway to the basement—the one that Marv, played by Daniel Stern, slips down in the film.
— Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 16 Dec. 2020 -
Be sure to wander the charming narrow side streets and hike the steep stairways.
— Wendy Hu, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2023 -
The chocolatey hue on the ceiling in the entry extends to the underside of the stairway.
— Jennifer Fernandez, House Beautiful, 10 Feb. 2023 -
The stairway in the center’s main lobby is named in their honor.
— Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Jan. 2023 -
The stairway down to the lower level, which holds the game room, a guest bedroom and an office.
— Nancy Keates, WSJ, 18 May 2022 -
That first-floor area, where Crosby’s used to be, still has a stairway in the middle of the room going to the basement.
— Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2022 -
But the researchers can’t confirm as no passage or stairway leads to the strange area.
— Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2023 -
The two-story stairway winds from a living room at the top level, down to the garden.
— Karen Bruno, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2018 -
That left just the single stairway — one that was too far away from where the men were working, the complaint says.
— Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2024 -
There’s a new bathroom on the first floor, a new home office and a hidden rear stairway.
— Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 29 Sep. 2022 -
An open stairway, with a landing that overlooks the great room at the halfway point, adds to the appeal.
— James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 17 Sep. 2022 -
Down a steep stairway and through a cavern of rooms, sits the Rothy’s design studio.
— Shannon Fitzgerald, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2019 -
In the event of a fire, MacInnis, a 65-year-old, would have been responsible for pulling patients down a stairway on a sled.
— Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2024 -
Over the years, the duo completed major renovations of the structure, enclosing it, adding interior stairways, and restoring most of the stone and woodwork throughout.
— Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2024
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