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194 examples of Downstairs in a sentence

I was downstairs by the front door, and I was waiting for a taxi, and my son came down the stairs and he'd made a card for me.
On September 10, the morning of my seventh birthday, I came downstairs to the kitchen, where my mother was washing the dishes and my father was reading the paper or something, and I sort of presented myself to them in the doorway, and they said, "Hey, happy birthday!"
So we took a room downstairs in the basement that had been used as sort of an Abu Ghraib annex.
A woman who sells corn liquor to the locals takes in her cousin or nephew and he convinces her to open a café downstairs from her home.
The young daughter only manages to escape with the aid of a mysterious spectre, who kills the two aggressors while she covers in a downstairs cupboard.
Veronica lives downstairs with her poor dog, She's sensitive and desperately bothered by her mother's visiting and the bad relationship with her dad.
One of the perks of my job is that when things are slow, I can watch the movie in our downstairs theater (I work in a little 2-screen theater) in the cry room and still keep an eye on the concession stand.
So Phoebe comes downstairs and says the spell, since it was only Phoebe who said it and not the power of three Shax only got wounded.
The musical interludes, inspired by Grace Chang, are perplexing but welcome mile-markers that add new dimensions to the slowly evolving relationship between the young man upstairs and the woman downstairs.
I snuck downstairs really early one morning, started watching HBO, and The Raft (segment 2) terrorized me good.
It's the job of the 1 doctor, 1 nurse, and 1 security guard in the entire hospital staff to drag this mental patient downstairs, do a ritual that pretty much just involves cutting the tongue out, and then allowing the haunted house prop of a demon to come out and steal his soul through the magic of cheesy special effects.
Parts of it can still make you cringe or just creep you out.(How many parents do YOU know go out for cocktails on Christmas Eve? "If you get bored, just go downstairs and play the piano."
Basically, it showed her sneaking downstairs to snag some of the formula while her husband went to town (what did she do to get the drug all those months when her husband DIDN'T go to town?) and then she goes wildly crazy at the end and tries to kill everyone.
The mother and father have not gone upstairs or downstairs to see one another for seven years, and Lupino is their only go-between, which has reduced her to extreme shyness, withdrawal, and stuttering.
During one particularly frenzied attack, Taeko slips and falls downstairs breaking her neck.
She jumps out of the shower, puts a pink aerobics outfit on, walks downstairs to seeing her mother strangled to death by Ray Sharkey(playing a killer named Silk).
One that stood out for me, was when Nick Frost woke up from a one night stand, trudges silently downstairs and comes across a picture of him and the lady he slept with, married, including another with a child.
But when it all kicks off downstairs, and someone is thrown through a glass window, she's nowhere to be seen.
It's secretly laced with cocaine and he goes into a feral rage and runs downstairs in the hotel beating elderly men with a large fillet of tuna.
He hurried downstairs feeling that he must do something, he knew not what.
He went downstairs, but had not had time to leave his study before he heard his wife's familiar footsteps following him with imprudent rapidity.
Then, remembering the agitation and anger he had witnessed on all faces, he felt sad, and with the intention of leaving the place went downstairs.
Even the Princess Barbara, who was playing patience, confirmed this, and Anna, flushing, rose, but instead of going downstairs, as she had already done twice, she stood still.
But as soon as he entered the semi-circular courtyard, got out of his sledge and entered the porch, where he was met by a hall-porter with a shoulder-belt who noiselessly opened the door and bowed to him; as soon as he saw in the hall the coats and goloshes of those of the members who realized that it was easier to take off their goloshes downstairs than to go up in them; and as soon as he heard the mysterious ring of the bell that announced his ascent; and while mounting the shallow steps of the carpeted stairs perceived the statue on the landing, and saw upstairs the third hall-porter in club livery – whom he recognized, though the man had aged – who opened the door for him without haste or delay, gazing at the new arrival directly he saw all this, Levin was enveloped in the old familiar atmosphere of the place, an atmosphere of repose, ease, and propriety.
'Yes, it was she,' he said and, clasping his head with his hands, he ran downstairs.
Scarcely had he finished reading the note and made a wry face over it, when he heard downstairs the heavy steps of men carrying something heavy.
He was going quickly downstairs.
"Yes, father; it has just struck downstairs."
"It has struck downstairs," repeated Catherine; ""come!
She did not stop, but went downstairs in her coarse woollen stockings, feeling her way, and lighted another candle in the parlour, to prepare the coffee.
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