How to Use stairway in a Sentence

stairway

noun

• 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
• Take the stairway to the beach off Sea Ridge across from Linda Way.
  — Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
• Inside the five-room frame home, a stairway leads from the kitchen to the attic.
  — [e-mail], Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2022
• Railing on each side of the stairway that leads to the basement.
  — Nancy A. Herrick, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2017
• 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
• The stairway and column squirrels are in parts of the house that are not open to the public.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 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
• The lights flashed by windows leaped down stairways and dashed from room to room.
  — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 27 Oct. 2017
• 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
• Steele said, standing at the bottom of the stairway leading to the back doors of City Hall.
  — Josh Baugh, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Kiely was at the computer in the living room, which is kind of at the bottom of the stairway.
  — Josh Gelman, CBS News, 26 May 2018
• 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
• This home is built into the rocks on a small knoll, with its own private stairway on to the beach.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 15 May 2018
• 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
• Take the stairway to the basement to visit the music section.
  — Chris Varias, Cincinnati.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• 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
• Then Murphy is found dead at the bottom of the long stairway leading to his house.
  — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
• Their number would vary based on the length of the stairway between the eight landings, some of which would have benches.
  — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2025
• Two stairways that, like the entire house, seem hewn from living rock, sweep upward elegantly to the patio.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 3 Mar 2025