How to Use stair in a Sentence

stair

noun

• The stairs lead to the roof.
• She ran down the stairs.
• He waited at the foot of the stairs.
• She slipped and fell down the stairs.
• We had to climb another flight of stairs to get to the roof.
• He tripped on the bottom stair and almost fell.
• Jack Van Camp: The dogs would have to choke her on the stairs.
  — Tracy Smith, CBS News, 18 May 2024
• Aim to place a foot on each stair and run on the balls of your feet.
  — David Otey, Men's Health, 14 Dec. 2022
• The mouth of the stairs opens directly into the crowd, and the path to the stage is through it.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2023
• The house was small and boxy, the stairs running up along the stone fireplace.
  — Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• The Democrats in the gallery had to climb over stair railings to an open door.
  — Natalie Andrews, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2022
• Here was his chance to descend the stairs and exit the house.
  — Zach Williams, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
• To avoid being seen through the front windows, Kristin hid on the stairs in the back.
  — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• The witness walked to a side door, entered the home and saw drops of blood in the kitchen and down the stairs.
  — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 17 May 2024
• The line to buy books snaked away from the theater entrance and ran all the way up the stairs.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2024
• Some are built on the ground; others are on rocks or at the top of a lot of stairs.
  — Erin Alberty, Axios, 15 July 2024
• How to make a safe move:Don't want to lug that couch down the stairs yourself?
  — Betty Lin-Fisher, USA TODAY, 22 May 2024
• When Franklin walks up the gangplank to sail to Europe, the stairs come out now.
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• There’s a gate topped with barbed wire to keep the riffraff out, and then long and winding stairs down to the sea.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023
• Who cares where the stairs lead when they're flanked by hydrangeas?
  — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2024
• The most common place for older adults to fall is on the stairs.
  — Jim Morrison, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
• Olympic feat: Leaping (easily) over the gate at the foot of the stairs.
  — Mariashines, cleveland, 24 July 2023
• Two men and two women who walked out of the room followed her down the stairs.
  — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 17 May 2023
• Lift the tread to begin freeing it from the nails that hold it to the stair risers.
  — Washington Post, 10 May 2021
• After two flights of stairs, a door opens onto the street.
  — Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
• Smashing china, falling down the stairs, slugs to the nose, and worse.
  — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 4 Feb. 2024
• Two sets of stairs lead to the front door and a foyer flanked by the dining and living rooms.
  — Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• After the plane slowed to a stop in Doha, three of the prisoners walked down the stairs.
  — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 19 Sep. 2023
• After staggering halfway up and then falling back down the stairs out of the basement, Chef Veev seems to pass out just as the timer for the half-sheet of roasting duck starts to beep.
  — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
• Thus, a certain level of mobility is needed to take stairs and walk the pathways.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 4 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024