Stair in sentence

65 examples of Stair in a sentence

[David Rockwell on the Stairs] At its most basic, a stair is a way to get from point A to point B at different elevations.

Here's Jim descending steps, reaching with his bionic toe to the next stair tread, automatically exhibiting natural motions without him even trying to move his limb.

So wherever there's a stair, there has to be an elevator or a ramp.

Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

You'll find a stair that's the same length as the Supreme Court.

And in this example, you can see that the components of this stair are repetitive, but they're repetitive without being modular.

Never acknowledge the ghost on the stair.

You're going down into our lobby, go through the lobby with our own little dangly bits, whether you like them or not, up through the stair that leads you into the auditorium.

This was hung on a wall where you could walk down from the stair and you can see this hidden skull.

Terrible movie and all the men in it are in desperate need of a stair master.

The steepest stair case in any school ever, which this jock proceeds to CLEAR in the air.

There was a groan; word ran along that a trammer had just cut his head open against the edge of a stair.

I went down a short stair leading to the ground floor.

When Rodolphe came to the garden that evening, he found his mistress waiting for him at the foot of the steps on the lowest stair.

"You were downstairs in the ante-room, ready to go out, standing on the last stair; you were wearing a bonnet with small blue flowers; and without any invitation from you, in spite of myself, I went with you.

After climbing a long stair, they came to a very small door, the frame of which was sumptuously gilded.

The Marquis, mounting two steps at a time by a little secret stair, conducted our hero personally to a neat attic which overlooked the huge garden of the house.

'Then may heaven help you!' the Spaniard concluded; and he accompanied Julien and Altamira in silence to the head of the stair.

She could barely stand when she had to climb the stair that led to the First Vicar-General's apartment.

K. then stood still for a while, combed his hair with the help of a pocket mirror, picked up his hat from the next stair - the information-giver must have thrown it down there - and then he ran down the steps so fresh and in such long leaps that the contrast with his previous state nearly frightened him.

I am so frightened.''Cook,' said the lady abbess, who took care to be on the top stair, the very last of the group--'cook, why don't you go a little way into the garden?''Please, ma'am, I don't like,' responded the cook.

'Well, young townskip,' said Sam, 'how's mother?''She's pretty well,' replied Master Bardell, 'so am I.''Well, that's a mercy,' said Sam; 'tell her I want to speak to her, will you, my hinfant fernomenon?'Master Bardell, thus adjured, placed the refractory flat candle on the bottom stair, and vanished into the front parlour with his message.

Here, the first object that met his eyes was his beloved father sitting on a bottom stair, with his hat in his hand, shouting out 'Weller!' in his very loudest tone, at half-minute intervals.

A few oil lamps were scattered at long distances, but they only served to mark the dirty entrance to some narrow close, or to show where a common stair communicated, by steep and intricate windings, with the various flats above.

There was a double stream upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found ourselves in the office."

I left the breakfast-table, and as I ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small brass box, like a cashbox, in the other.

St. Clair's story, he was known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime.

He led us down a passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each side.

The other clothes would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer.

I staggered to my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding stair.

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