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Staircase in sentence

256 examples of Staircase in a sentence

I got that staircase for 20 dollars, including delivery to my lot.
So for a second, think about stepping down a gradual, monumental staircase like the one in front of the New York Public Library.
That's a totally different experience than going down the narrow staircase to, say, an old pub, where you spill into the room.
The staircase that remained standing after September 11th and the attack on the World Trade Center was dubbed the "Survivors' Staircase," because it played such a central role in leading hundreds of people to safety.
Now, let me say something about the staircase, which may seem like an odd metaphor for seniors, given the fact that many seniors are challenged by stairs.
There's only one exception to this universal law, and that is the human spirit, which can continue to evolve upwards, the staircase, bringing us into wholeness, authenticity, and wisdom.
Neil Selinger, to me, is the embodiment of mounting the staircase in his third act.
But sometimes it's as though a doorway appears from out of nowhere and it opens onto a staircase.
We climb the staircase and experience a state of altered consciousness.
JH: So note how Bradley's petty, moralistic self just dies on the way up the staircase.
The world's many religions have found so many ways to help people climb the staircase.
This is from a 16th century Aztec scroll showing a man about to eat a psilocybin mushroom and at the same moment get yanked up the staircase by a god.
But you don't need a religion to get you through the staircase.
Here's a key passage where he basically describes the staircase.
I'm offering the metaphor of a staircase in the mind.
I'm saying we are Homo duplex and this staircase takes us up from the profane level to the level of the sacred.
When we climb that staircase, self-interest fades away, we become just much less self-interested, and we feel as though we are better, nobler and somehow uplifted.
So here's the million-dollar question for social scientists like me: Is the staircase a feature of our evolutionary design?
One of the most common is climbing the secret staircase and losing ourselves.
The staircase takes us from the experience of life as profane or ordinary upwards to the experience of life as sacred, or deeply interconnected.
I can't be certain if the staircase is an adaptation rather than a bug, but if it is an adaptation, then the implications are profound.
And most importantly, if the staircase is real, it explains the persistent undercurrent of dissatisfaction in modern life.
One great challenge of modern life is to find the staircase amid all the clutter and then to do something good and noble once you climb to the top.
They're all searching for their staircase.
A woman named Aomame in 1984 Japan finds herself negotiating down a spiral staircase off an elevated highway.
We also found out about the height of the ceiling, and we managed to reconstruct, therefore, all the layout of this original hall the way it was before there came Vasari, and restructured the whole thing, including a staircase that was very important in order to precisely place "The Battle of Anghiari" on a specific area of one of the two walls.
And then if we want, we can continue the scroll to find out, for example, on the staircase, the whole iconography is going to be changed.
They had one small elevator and a staircase that wrapped them and a light well.
In fact, not only could the rat initiate and sustain locomotion on the ground, they could even adjust leg movement, for example, to resist gravity in order to climb a staircase.
From Arcade Fire in an elevator in the Olympia to Beirut going down a staircase in Brooklyn.
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