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• The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.From the entry incorporate
• See if you can blow the bubbles up the staircase.From the entry blow up
• The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.From the entry sloppy
• Early signs of Duchenne muscular dystrophy may include pseudohypertrophy (enlargement of calf muscles), low endurance, and difficulties in standing unaided or inability to ascend staircases.From the entry pseudohypertrophy
• Fortunately, Frank had devised a cool way of getting down the seemingly endless staircase.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry laundry basket
• When he spotted Natalie descending the staircase, he begged her to try the elevator.2016, Susan Wolf Johnson, King Daniel: Gasparilla King of the Pirates. From the entry hummer
• Every staircase had its earl or an honourable, there was even a maharajah floating about the place.2013, Michael Dobbs, A Ghost at the Door. From the entry Brideshead
• Children often scrambled up the narrow staircases to play on the bleacherlike seats.2009 April 19, Caroline H. Dworin, “Emancipated From the Shadows”, in New York Times. From the entry bleacherlike
• Spacious rooms were here piled one upon another connected by wide staircases.2008, Alan Burt Akers, Gangs of Antares: Dray Prescot 45. From the entry earthscraper
• It leads to four rooms, all leading in turn to a mystical spiral staircase.2008, Ecoescape: Ireland, Markham Publishing, page 30. From the entry hobbitesque
• Up and down the corridors, the dozen staircases, through the whole Gormenghastian maze.2007, Antonia Quirke, Choking on Marlon Brando. From the entry Gormenghastian
• They may be single, or interlocking to create a staircase of pools.2007, Derek Ford, Paul D. Williams, Karst Hydrogeology and Geomorphology, section 8.3.6 "Rimstone dams or gours", page 287. From the entry microgour
• Her clogs slammed against the pine boards of the staircase and shook the house.2002, Alice Sebold, chapter 5, in The Lovely Bones, Waterville, ME: Thorndike Press, page 92. From the entry clog
• Three levels of booklined shelves encircle the room, protected behind railinged galleries connected by a steep staircase.2001, Neil Baldwin, Edison: inventing the century. From the entry railinged
• Gulangyu island has a spectacular crows-nest lookout reached by winding stone staircases.1980 April 9 [1980 April 8], Jay Mathews, “Nationalist Islands Sound Siren Call to Mainland Chinese”, in The Washington Post, sourced from…. From the entry lookout
• “This way, monsieur,” he said, and led the way up the broad, marble staircase.1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Plot That Failed”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company…. From the entry bow
• “This way, Monsieur,” he said, and led the way up the broad, marble staircase.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 43. From the entry obsequiously
• All he had to do was sit at the top of the staircase, and then let gravity take its course.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry laundry basket
• “Here Draggy, Draggy, Draggy, where are you, you sadistic whelp” taunted Grinsfeld as he crept down the staircase into the dungeon.2017, Robert Montgomery, Through the Event Horizon, Xlibris, →ISBN. From the entry draggy
• Twenty minutes later, he let his eyelids split a quarter open and noticed a staircase going up to the third floor.2016, Drew Magary, The Hike: A Novel, →ISBN, page 47. From the entry troll job
• Pa had bought the staircase that used to stand in the entrance hall of a Randlord mansion in Johannesburg.2013, Dominique Botha, False River. From the entry Randlord
• I next went upstairs to the bedrooms, up a thickly-carpeted staircase, with the white linen overcloth still upon it.2013, Hugh Lamb ·, Tales from a Gas-Lit Graveyard. From the entry overcloth
• "Oh yeah, I almost forgot to tell you, there's a missing step on the unlit staircase with no railings.2012 June 22, Cliff Pervocracy, “The missing stair.”, in The Pervocracy (blog), retrieved 21 Sep 2018. From the entry missing stair
• Inside, the mix of epochs continues: chunky door posts nicked from Helmsley Castle nestled beside an elegant staircase.2009 August 29, Chris Mugan, “The shed that rocks”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry door post
• The next day I experienced staircase wit.2008, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Random House, page 131. From the entry staircase wit
• In terms of the income scale British society has been compared to a group of people on a moving staircase.2008, John Irwin, Modern Britain: An Economic and Social History, page 27. From the entry moving staircase
• While the staircase as a whole moves upwards the relative position of the people on it remains largely unchanged.2008, John Irwin, Modern Britain: An Economic and Social History, page 27. From the entry moving staircase
• I passed a staircase on my right that led to the apartment upstairs where T.C. and Miss Lady lived.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 38. From the entry musta
• Huw Edwards stands at the top of the circular staircase in the BBC newsroom, king of all he surveys.2003 January 20, Simon Hattenstone, “BBC: Simon Hatterstone talks to Huw Edwards”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 09 Jan 2020. From the entry king of all one surveys
• But on Voyage 34, he finally met himself coming down an up staircase, and the encounter was crushing.2000, “Phase I”, in Voyage 34: The Complete Trip, performed by Porcupine Tree. From the entry bummer
• A stone staircase ‘well furnished with stucco’ led to Dr.1967, C. P. Curran, Dublin Decorative Plasterwork of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, London, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry stucco
• The station building forms a street-level portal and ticket hall, connected by staircases and escalators to the sub-surface platforms.1951 September, “Reconstruction of Sloane Square Station, London”, in Railway Magazine, page 634. From the entry plinth
• High up on the viaduct, and approached by a spidery staircase from the street, it looks down on Southwark Cathedral.1948 March and April, “A Keypoint in an Intensive Service”, in Railway Magazine, page 115. From the entry spidery
• "The dining-room ceiling was hand-painted and the staircase gigantic, yet the royal family used porcelain washbowls and old-fashioned thundermugs".1944, Ernie Pyle, Brave Men, University of Nebraska Press, published 2001, page 80. From the entry thundermug
• The castle arkwright put in a chequered staircase certainly.1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC…. From the entry arkwright
• However, while these do lead down to one of the "orphan" houses that is accessible only via steps, further down the staircase is impassable.2025 June 15, Charleen, “West End Overlook to Chaykhana: A Pittsburgh Steps & Dine Hike”, in Love to Chow, archived from the original on…. From the entry orphan house
• An impenetrable ten-sided monolith, the never-realized structure was to be made of alabaster, with an astronomical tower and a spiraling internal staircase.2023 July 27, Emily LaBarge, “A Strange, but Elegant, Artistic Match”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry sided

Meaning of staircase

1. noun A flight of stairs; a stairway.
2. noun A connected set of flights of stairs; a stairwell.
3. noun A set of locks (enclosed sections of waterway) mounted one above the next.

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Questions about staircase in a sentence

How do you use staircase in a sentence?

Staircase is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.”

What is a short sentence with staircase?

“The next day I experienced staircase wit.”

What does staircase mean?

Staircase means a flight of stairs; a stairway.