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
• Inside the five-room frame home, a stairway leads from the kitchen to the attic.
  — [e-mail], Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2022
• Think of the stairway in Titanic or Gone with the Wind.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 3 Jan. 2023
• 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
• The other side of the wall is where the stairway descends to the second level.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• The stairway in the center’s main lobby is named in their honor.
  — Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Jan. 2023
• The stairway down to the lower level, which holds the game room, a guest bedroom and an office.
  — Nancy Keates, WSJ, 18 May 2022
• That first-floor area, where Crosby’s used to be, still has a stairway in the middle of the room going to the basement.
  — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2022
• But the researchers can’t confirm as no passage or stairway leads to the strange area.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2023
• There’s a new bathroom on the first floor, a new home office and a hidden rear stairway.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 29 Sep. 2022
• An open stairway, with a landing that overlooks the great room at the halfway point, adds to the appeal.
  — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 17 Sep. 2022
• Edwards said a steel rack first struck her in the jaw, then knocked her into a stairway railing and then to the ground.
  — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
• Enter the pastry shop, hustle past all the patrons waiting in line, and take the stairway to the right.
  — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2022
• There’s a stairway on one side and an entrance/exit for cars on the other.
  — Lola Sherman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2023
• Or continue up a steep natural-rock stairway to the top of the arch.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2022
• At the end of this hall is a door leading to a second deck and a finished stairway to the lower level.
  — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 9 Sep. 2022
• Over the office, reached by an inner stairway, are the five bed rooms to be occupied by the employes of the baths.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2022
• Over the Cascade mountain range, Cooper jumped from the plane’s rear-exit stairway, the cash in a bag tied to his body.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
• But if the work takes place in a large common area, or includes a stairway, get outta there.
  — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2021
• The stairway turns to go up to his bedroom and then disappears and reappears.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 Aug. 2021
• On that day, shortly before classes were to be dismissed, a fire broke out at the foot of a stairway.
  — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 17 Sep. 2021
• Wooden entry gates open to a terraced idyll linked by a brick stairway that meanders down to the front of the main house.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2023
• Eventually the shoulders were paved and the stairways torn down as the bus plan never took hold.
  — Bill McGraw, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2023
• An enormous quasi-treehouse of classrooms, its trunk a stairway, blooms at one end of the building.
  — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024