STAIRWAY in a Sentence

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20 example sentences for STAIRWAY, such as:

1. I heard someone walk down the stairway.
2. A wild shriek came pealing down the stairway.
3. In a moment I watched her fade down the dusky stairway.
4. It was already gone half past eleven when someone could be heard in the stairway.
5. Injun Joe put his hand on his knife, halted a moment, undecided, and then turned toward the stairway.

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 Meanings and Examples of STAIRWAY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
stairway
 n.  a way of access upward and downward, consisting of a set of steps
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  It was dug out under the wing of the house, was plastered and cemented, with a stairway and an outside door by which the men came and went.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
2  In a moment I watched her fade down the dusky stairway.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: II
3  The little girl with the rag doll found a place on the bottom step of an enclosed back stairway, and sat with her toes curled up, looking out at us expectantly.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
4  While we were talking, the little boy whom they called Jan came in and sat down on the step beside Nina, under the hood of the stairway.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
5  He had followed her into the hall and to the foot of the stairway, looking up at her as she mounted with her face half turned to him.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIX
6  Edna hastened upstairs by a private stairway that led from the rear of the store to the apartments above.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXVII
7  A wild shriek came pealing down the stairway.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
8  Then he skipped out, and saw Sid just starting up the outside stairway that led to the back rooms on the second floor.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  Injun Joe put his hand on his knife, halted a moment, undecided, and then turned toward the stairway.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
10  He found that it curtained a sort of steep natural stairway which was enclosed between narrow walls, and at once the ambition to be a discoverer seized him.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
11  Two soldiers were accordingly sent for, and the inspector descended a stairway, so foul, so humid, so dark, as to be loathsome to sight, smell, and respiration.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners.
12  In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force waiting to save him.
Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In I
13  A strong draught of air flew in from the street towards the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor.
Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In I
14  It was already gone half past eleven when someone could be heard in the stairway.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter One Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach - The...
15  At last, however, I found one door at the top of the stairway which, though it seemed to be locked, gave a little under pressure.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
Example Sentence:
1  I heard someone walk down the stairway.