How to Use stairwell in a Sentence

stairwell

noun
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  • Black-and-white photos of the store dating back to the 1800s hang in the stairwell.
    — Anne Kadet, WSJ, 27 July 2022
  • The 19-year-old's flip-flops and cell phone were last seen in the 11th-floor stairwell.
    — Emmett Jones, Fox News, 19 Nov. 2021
  • At the bottom of the stairwell, Doris might have paused.
    — Karen Brown, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The gates lock at the top, so people don’t sleep in the stairwells at night.
    — Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 16 June 2019
  • The footage shows a man slumped in a chair near a stairwell with a gun in his hand.
    — NBC News, 2 June 2021
  • The layout posed a challenge due to the stairwell in the center of the room.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2021
  • That was the only thing left standing was the stairwells to the house.
    — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 30 Apr. 2020
  • No one saw his body in the bushes 20 steps from the stairwell.
    — Eileen Kelley, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Oct. 2021
  • So the light shines through the office, through the glass wall and then into the main stairwell.
    — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
  • In the stairwell, a plaster-like substance used to patch holes in the wall was still wet to the touch.
    — Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Blood smears the stairwell floor and the shards of glass strewn about while shrapnel pockmarks the walls.
    — Elena Becatoros, ajc, 31 May 2022
  • Mejía was found — stabbed to death — in the fifth-floor stairwell of the Park La Brea tower.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2021
  • One unit is paying for those lights in the stairwell that stay on 24/7.
    — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2022
  • The stairwell leads to the second floor, which holds the home’s main living areas.
    — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Lann was able to make his way to a stairwell and got behind a brick wall.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Goody-two-shoes don't last long and best watch their back on stairwells.
    — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The fast-spreading fire moved from the first floor to the second and cut off the stairwell, according to the chief.
    — Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024
  • On a routine check of the stairwell, Wills found that the door latches had been taped again.
    — Keith Sharon, The Mercury News, 17 June 2019
  • There's no blood of his found on the stairwell going down into the street.
    — CBS News, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The heavy rainfall had pooled atop the roof and was leaking through a skylight above the stairwell.
    — Jake Offenhartz, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2023
  • In the building next door, addicts shot up in a stairwell.
    — Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Barnhill was charged in the killing of a man who was found dead in a stairwell Nov. 1, police said.
    — Caroline Silva, ajc, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Flores was on the ground floor; a colleague was on the second floor, on top of the open stairwell.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Is the light in a high, hard-to-reach place such as a two-story foyer or above a stairwell?
    — Jennifer Barger, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
  • As Brandon does a lot of clapping and yelling in the stairwell, the galley is even messier.
    — Emma Soren, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Tanya was in the stairwell, laughing with a tall, hunched man whose eyes were gray and clouded.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 23 July 2022
  • The outdoor stairwell was in plain sight of the street, according to ABC 7 News.
    — Andrew Mark Miller, Washington Examiner, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Farewell to my lizard friends on the stairwell, the mosquitos that swarm by the thousands and the monsoons that seem to spring from the sky.
    — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Hawkins is accused in charging documents of throwing bleach at the woman in the stairwell of her building on Oct. 17.
    — Thomas Tracey, New York Daily News, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Dogs and their owners could enter the arena through only one entrance and use one stairwell to reach the upper concourse.
    — Josh Robbins, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025

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