How to Use upstairs in a Sentence

upstairs

1 of 3 adverb

• She was on her way upstairs when she heard a car drive up.
• When you go upstairs, bring these towels with you.
• The stairs now are more than just a way to get upstairs.
  — Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• The teenager was at school, the husband upstairs with the flu.
  — Joe Yonan, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2023
• On the morning of Feb. 4, Karen awoke, padded down to the kitchen, turned on the coffee pot and went back upstairs.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2023
• The kitchen and living area in Unit 5 are upstairs from the entrance and bedroom.
  — Benjamin C. Tankersley, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
• Justin Fry is very much involved, with the guys upstairs.
  — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2023
• After the man fled, the woman ran upstairs and her friend called 911.
  — Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Nov. 2022
• As the weeks ticked by, Henesey went upstairs and knocked on Ryan’s door again.
  — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 23 Dec. 2022
• The chapel and cultural hall are workshops, and the Bigelows used to live right upstairs.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Dec. 2022
• Hip-Hop across the map Back upstairs, tape rolls over decades of hip-hop culture.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
• The two boys were sleeping upstairs when their father was shot to death in 2013.
  — Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
• The Cowboys coaches who worked the game upstairs in the coaches’ booth came to the sideline late in the fourth quarter.
  — Kristi Scales, Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2023
• One time, Trina went upstairs with a group of people to get high.
  — Jenisha Watts, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2023
• The best view in the house is from the creaky wooden balcony outlined by a white wrought iron balustrade that wraps around the L'Amour room upstairs.
  — Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• His stepfather went upstairs and asked him for the gun.
  — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 30 Aug. 2023
• This home also has a large game room and a media room with a walk-up bar upstairs.
  — Dallas News, 9 Feb. 2023
• Stage size: 43-feet wide and 32-feet deep Amenities: Five bars, four on the main floor, one upstairs, with light food items.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2022
• The woman said her nephew, who was upstairs with three other children, had been shot in the leg.
  — cleveland, 18 Aug. 2023
• For lighter meals or cocktails, head upstairs to Bu’ul’s open-air Raw Bar on the second floor.
  — John Vorwald, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2023
• While there, check out the concert schedule at the Skydeck upstairs.
  — Margaret Littman, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Feb. 2023
• There will be a movie theater, upstairs like, sort of, restaurant area.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 3 July 2023
• All the relatives would come over – adults upstairs, the kids downstairs.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 1 Jan. 2023
• Heading upstairs to the main deck, a spacious open-air lounge leads to the main salon and dining area.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2024
• As long as there is growth and profits are good, the guys upstairs won’t really care.
  — Jc Gaillard, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Book in for its creative tasting menu, then retire upstairs to one of the cozy-cool rooms.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2023
• Book in for its creative tasting menu, then retire upstairs to one of the cosy-cool rooms.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2023
• Back upstairs, a lofted walkway over the great room connects to a small home office tucked above the kitchen.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 26 Feb. 2024
• Work on the escalators that go upstairs from the ticketing area will begin soon and take a few months to complete.
  — James A. Jones Jr., Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024
• The building was originally designed with 20 rooms upstairs with a barroom, card rooms and billiard tables on the first floor.
  — The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2024

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upstairs

2 of 3 adjective

• You can use the upstairs bathroom.
• Kaylee and Maddie were stabbed to death in the upstairs part of the house.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2023
• An upstairs bonus room with a bathroom can be used as a game room.
  — oregonlive, 27 July 2022
• The wind pushed out the bottom pane of an upstairs window and broke the top pane, spewing leaves all over the TV.
  — Morgan Womack and Staff Reports, The Courier-Journal, 26 June 2023
• Stacks of his work fill shelves in their upstairs playroom.
  — Tom Murphy, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2022
• Two young children, ages 1 and 3, were in an upstairs bedroom and their aunt was in the house as well.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 4 Nov. 2022
• Allen Dorsey, Maria’s husband of three months, claimed to have been sick in bed in an upstairs room.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022
• There were three occupants in the upstairs unit and two in the downstairs unit, Beaulieu said.
  — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 29 Dec. 2022
• Solinger, who is listed as a member of the LLC, lived in the cottage, and Peters lives in the upstairs unit.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 20 May 2022
• My 7-year-old is upstairs and my 2-year-old is in daycare.
  — Jason Gonzalez, The Courier-Journal, 26 July 2022
• In an upstairs room, under the eaves, the four boys initially shared two beds.
  — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• In some of the upstairs units, nails protrude from the floorboards, and rainwater falls from holes in the ceiling.
  — Wilfred Chan, Curbed, 8 Dec. 2022
• Looking down on the House floor from a prime seat at the front of the upstairs gallery, Grayson had brought her 10-year-old son to witness the historic day.
  — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 10 Jan. 2023
• The upstairs unit has a private entrance and is set back from the courtyard by a deck with a keyhole ocean view.
  — Sophy Chaffee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2022
• In an upstairs den, the couch is upholstered in mohair.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 15 May 2023
• In a clip of the wild encounter filmed by Heidi Hannah, the bear tries to escape the home through an upstairs window.
  — Daniel S. Levine, Peoplemag, 19 June 2023
• The family’s apartments were upstairs, above a row of shops.
  — Gamze Yilmazel, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• No upstairs bathroom, but plumbing has been roughed in for one.
  — Jon Gorey, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022
• Bistrot Lepic has a special menu as well as live jazz in its cozy upstairs wine bar.
  — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 14 July 2022
• The upstairs floor is home to the private owner’s lounge and the majority of the car collection.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2022
• Novak showed us an upstairs room where some of the objects were stored, in a glass case, watched over by the taxidermied head of a sheep.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
• Many of the families that crowded into the upstairs gallery at noon to watch the opening day of Congress have left.
  — Natalie Andrews, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2023
• The two houses are attached at a wall between the staircases and upstairs halls.
  — Benjamin C Tankersley, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
• In one apartment, the upstairs toilet leaked into the kitchen and the landlord blamed him for the damage and refused any repairs.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2022
• Just up the street is Bar Chiquita — an upstairs bar and club with a back room that has regular drag shows.
  — Adam Groffman, Travel + Leisure, 17 Sep. 2023
• In the 1920s, it was carved into a series of retail shops and lavish upstairs apartments.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 13 Jan. 2023
• Agents located a blue tarp and a blue raincoat in an upstairs closet during the search.
  — Fox News, 7 Feb. 2023
• The article suggested that Ray, the occupant of the upstairs unit, tried to break into the home of the shooter, who lived in the downstairs unit.
  — cleveland, 12 Oct. 2022
• April Babcock is sitting in a cramped upstairs room in her Maryland home filled with posters and banners that are covered with the faces of those who have died from fentanyl.
  — Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 3 Mar. 2024
• The enfilade of upstairs rooms, in its colors and architecture, is also a tribute to the lagoon outside.
  — Alice Newell-Hanson Stefan Ruiz, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024

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upstairs

3 of 3 noun

• Smoke was coming out of the windows and filled the upstairs.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 6 July 2021
• In the back and upstairs was an armory with more than 700 firearms.
  — Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today, 28 May 2021
• The upstairs has couches and chairs in more of a homey setting.
  — Bill Jones, chicagotribune.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• The two upstairs bedrooms in the front of the house each has a fireplace and share a dressing room.
  — oregonlive, 17 July 2022
• But this week, the bar says, the upstairs is reopening.
  — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2020
• And two large owners suites — one upstairs, one on the main floor.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2021
• Even the large upstairs bar hit by arson will be repaired to look the same.
  — Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune, 4 Aug. 2020
• Each of the four upstairs bedrooms has a bathroom and a walk-in closet.
  — Dallas News, 9 Jan. 2021
• But her special room is just off the main suite upstairs: the walk-in closet.
  — Mackenzie Schmidt, PEOPLE.com, 1 Mar. 2021
• Hogan’s has a downstairs Mill Shop and an upstairs Tap Room for adults.
  — Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 29 Sep. 2022
• Todd Brunner buys this home, with three upstairs bedrooms and a steep, gable roof, in the spring of 2003.
  — jsonline.com, 16 Nov. 2022
• The upstairs has a large game room with a window seat overlooking the pool.
  — Sharon Naukam, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2020
• An addition to the north made room for a new kitchen and upstairs bedroom.
  — Roger Showley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2021
• Dimes Square, the mini-mall has no street signage for any of its upstairs shops.
  — Wilfred Chan, Curbed, 31 Oct. 2022
• Then the Kouachis seized Corinne Rey, a cartoonist who had gone down to smoke, and forced her upstairs to punch in the door code.
  — Fox News, 17 Dec. 2020
• Black Noir uses a smoke grenade to flush them out of their hiding space and upstairs.
  — Nick Schager, EW.com, 18 Sep. 2020
• The upstairs, where there are now apartments, had been unused for 40 years.
  — Freep.com, 13 Feb. 2021
• The sale is being held in the upstairs of the Parish Hall from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. A wide variety of like-new books will be for sale for 50 cents.
  — baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 24 Apr. 2021
• The man went inside the home and to a bedroom upstairs, officials said.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
• In fact, the upstairs was reduced to the studs, and redone to open up space, reorient space and bring in more light.
  — Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 26 Feb. 2021
• Dozens of bullet holes were found in the rear door, roof, upstairs windows and siding.
  — cleveland, 22 Aug. 2020
• The living room area as seen from the upstairs in the condo owned by Harmon and Lea Kong at Tamarack.
  — Nancy Keates, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2021
• There’s no shame in stealing, as Rubens’ copies of Titian upstairs attest.
  — New York Times, 26 Dec. 2021
• The upstairs was left empty and now the window sashes appear ready to cave in, and the gray paint, what’s left of it, is peeling.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 14 Aug. 2021
• The downstairs serves as a kitchen and dining room, while the upstairs offers a lounge area with beds and instruments to play.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 19 May 2021
• The home has three living spaces, with two downstairs and one upstairs.
  — Mary Grace Metheny, Dallas News, 15 May 2020
• Amat said that there are an upstairs, a downstairs and a courtyard area.
  — NBC News, 1 Apr. 2021
• The paramedics found her upstairs in bed, writhing in pain, and hooked her up to a machine to monitor her vital signs.
  — Megan Specia, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
• Over the years, the upstairs at Graceland has taken on a mythical aura, with rumors that his suite remains untouched, just as the King left it.
  — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 13 Jan. 2023
• The back wing addition also enclosed the kitchen and upstairs sleeping porches.
  — oregonlive, 21 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024