How to Use stepladder in a Sentence

stepladder

noun

• Inside Jack found a little lamp to switch on, clamped to the edge of a stepladder.
  — Elizabeth McCracken, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2021
• She wasn't allowed inside but stood on a stepladder and looked over a gate.
  — CBS News, 28 June 2019
• The first barrier is easy enough; a small stepladder or a friend provides a boost.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, latimes.com, 4 Sep. 2017
• Meyer got there, and he's stayed there by using the Wolverines as a stepladder.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland.com, 4 Nov. 2017
• Just before the parade starts, Chantelle climbs up a small stepladder to address the crowd as the sky begins to darken.
  — Suzanne Van Atten, ajc, 12 Oct. 2013
• Everett Reynolds, a 23-year-old Waukegan resident, stood on a stepladder, adding detail and depth to one of the boy’s hands.
  — Emily K. Coleman, Lake County News-Sun, 13 July 2018
• For those of us who are even skittish on a stepladder, concern was there from the start of this portrait of an alpinist as a young man.
  — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 10 Sep. 2021
• Nancy Guigle, a longtime volunteer at the pantry, is still spry enough at age 78 to scale a stepladder to grab canned goods.
  — Greg Trotter, chicagotribune.com, 10 May 2018
• Edney climbed a stepladder, snipped the net and collected a piece for himself.
  — Gene Wojciechowski, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2020
• Now the conductors climb their stepladders, and the battle begins.
  — Zack Arias, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• As the partisan is climbing a stepladder outside the house to look into the window of this room, the owner returns.
  — Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 31 Mar. 2021
• Waskom barely made the top eight before going on a run in the two-game semifinals that qualified him for the stepladder.
  — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 13 Feb. 2023
• Eventually the Wolves notched the top seed in the stepladder finals, while Portage qualified third.
  — Johnny Gorches, Post-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2018
• His humble tools—a wooden kitchen spoon, an aluminum stepladder, and a green plastic garbage pail—now have a new home at the museum.
  — Theresa McCulla, Smithsonian, 16 Sep. 2019
• Scaling Dubai’s Burj Khalifa was like climbing a stepladder next to this.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2019
• The second floor, which can sleep up to four people, is six feet from the ground and accessed by a stepladder, offering a safe space to shelter during flooding.
  — Rebecca Cairns, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
• Despite its massive 17-inch wheels and overblown 31-inch tires, it can be mounted without a stepladder and drives surprisingly like a sedan.
  — Charles Fleming, latimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Meanwhile, a man named Andreas was standing on a stepladder completely costumed and covered from head to toe.
  — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 4 July 2018
• At cycling events participants often stand on a footstool or stepladder to load and unload their bikes.
  — Ken Van Vechten, latimes.com, 24 June 2018
• At the very top of my closet, there’s a secret shelf stacked with at least two dozen pairs, accessible only via stepladder and a bit of physical contortion.
  — Emily Farra, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2019
• Then six more games produced four bowlers who competed in a stepladder format, resulting in McCarthy's win.
  — Gentry Estes, The Courier-Journal, 11 June 2018
• Upstairs the house has also been extended, adding a primary suite with a spacious terrace in the upper story of the barn, once its hay loft and accessed only by a stepladder.
  — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 8 July 2021
• Keagan Trexler, Hamilton Heights Trexler qualified second at the state finals and won her two stepladder matches to become the state champion.
  — Matthew Vantryon, Indianapolis Star, 23 Mar. 2018
• Climbing a stepladder can be slightly risky but falling off an extension ladder can send you to the emergency room, says Di Martino.
  — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2021
• This multilevel raised garden bed gives you five planters suspended on a freestanding, sturdy black metal frame that opens like a stepladder.
  — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 17 Feb. 2023
• Babies wait for no one, not even a crowd of wellwishers and a massive media mob gathered in the narrow street outside the door, with their whirring cameras and clanking stepladders and shouting and cheering and applauding.
  — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2018
• After finishing third in qualifying in her group, Stefanie Johnson, 33, won two-afternoon matches to reach the group stepladder finals.
  — Luis Torres, OrlandoSentinel.com, 1 July 2017
• But recent history suggests that a second-place finish at the Masters isn't necessarily a stepladder to a major title.
  — Jim Souhan, Star Tribune, 11 Apr. 2021
• Each bracket match leading to the stepladder included three games, with total pinfall determining which player advanced.
  — Dennis Manoloff, cleveland.com, 23 May 2017
• As other businesses closed, Christiansen doubled down on wood, starting a company that manufactured stepladders, ironing boards along with an entirely new product line: wooden toys.
  — Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2017

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