How to Use stairwell in a Sentence

stairwell

noun

• Black-and-white photos of the store dating back to the 1800s hang in the stairwell.
  — Anne Kadet, WSJ, 27 July 2022
• The 19-year-old's flip-flops and cell phone were last seen in the 11th-floor stairwell.
  — Emmett Jones, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2021
• At the bottom of the stairwell, Doris might have paused.
  — Karen Brown, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2021
• The footage shows a man slumped in a chair near a stairwell with a gun in his hand.
  — NBC News, 2 June 2021
• The layout posed a challenge due to the stairwell in the center of the room.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2021
• No one saw his body in the bushes 20 steps from the stairwell.
  — Eileen Kelley, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Oct. 2021
• So the light shines through the office, through the glass wall and then into the main stairwell.
  — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
• In the stairwell, a plaster-like substance used to patch holes in the wall was still wet to the touch.
  — Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 1 Feb. 2023
• Blood smears the stairwell floor and the shards of glass strewn about while shrapnel pockmarks the walls.
  — Elena Becatoros, ajc, 31 May 2022
• Mejía was found — stabbed to death — in the fifth-floor stairwell of the Park La Brea tower.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2021
• One unit is paying for those lights in the stairwell that stay on 24/7.
  — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2022
• The stairwell leads to the second floor, which holds the home’s main living areas.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2023
• Lann was able to make his way to a stairwell and got behind a brick wall.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 12 Dec. 2022
• The fast-spreading fire moved from the first floor to the second and cut off the stairwell, according to the chief.
  — Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024
• The heavy rainfall had pooled atop the roof and was leaking through a skylight above the stairwell.
  — Jake Offenhartz, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2023
• In the building next door, addicts shot up in a stairwell.
  — Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• Barnhill was charged in the killing of a man who was found dead in a stairwell Nov. 1, police said.
  — Caroline Silva, ajc, 29 Nov. 2021
• Is the light in a high, hard-to-reach place such as a two-story foyer or above a stairwell?
  — Jennifer Barger, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
• As Brandon does a lot of clapping and yelling in the stairwell, the galley is even messier.
  — Emma Soren, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2024
• Tanya was in the stairwell, laughing with a tall, hunched man whose eyes were gray and clouded.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 23 July 2022
• But Liz isn't in the east stairwell when Dembe and Red's other guards rush to find her.
  — Jodi Walker, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2021
• Their unit was at the end of the hallway, and Ms. Cele, 39, and her three children and niece tried to push their way toward the stairwell.
  — Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• Officials said the man had trauma to his body and was found in a stairwell.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2022
• The officers found blood smeared on the wall of the building's stairwell, the body camera video shows.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 31 July 2024
• As Parisien cleaned up the mess in the stairwell, Smith and Clements dragged Grant to another set of bushes.
  — Angie Dimichele, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Oct. 2021
• Fire crews contained the blaze to the stairwell and knocked it down in about 20 minutes, Caffrey said.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2022
• Seabirds argued in the open stairwells of the Arco Iris hotel.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
• There was a time when the clues were laid out in plain sight: The unexpected dress-up day, the furtive phone calls in the stairwell.
  — Robert Granader, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
• John B and Sarah meet at a remote lookout on top of a tall stairwell.
  — Jean Bentley, refinery29.com, 29 Sep. 2021
• Under a stairwell just off the garden room is a small sink area for cuttings from outside.
  — David Foxley, Architectural Digest, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024