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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Their unit was at the end of the hallway, and Ms. Cele, 39, and her three children and niece tried to push their way toward the stairwell.
    — Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Officials said the man had trauma to his body and was found in a stairwell.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Fire crews contained the blaze to the stairwell and knocked it down in about 20 minutes, Caffrey said.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Seabirds argued in the open stairwells of the Arco Iris hotel.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
  • The warren of galleries is down a stairwell in a 7,000-square-foot basement.
    — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The 58-year-old woman then lay unconscious at the bottom of the stairwell.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The daughter slides down the stairwell to the living room to find her father, beer and pretzel snacks in hand.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Clip one to the ladder leg that needs to be longer so the ladder rises straight up when set against a side wall in the stairwell.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
  • Jake left the office and waited in a stairwell while Weiss finished with the patient.
    — CBS News, 5 Nov. 2022
  • For Chaplain Kevin, the stairwell meant more than just a place to sneak in some exercise.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2022
  • The video took a few seconds to load, then opened to her father sitting on a chair near a stairwell.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The suspects then assaulted him in a stairwell at the station.
    — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Anna Politkovskaya - shot dead in her stairwell in 2004.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Her mind froze as a stranger pointed a gun at her in the stairwell of a Salt Lake City apartment complex.
    — Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Some from the second floor had escape via ladder because of the damage to the stairwell.
    — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Go to the lowest floor, a small center room like a bathroom or closet, under a stairwell, or in an interior hallway.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2024
  • Rescuers broke a window in a second-floor stairwell, and almost 70 people crawled out, volunteers ferrying them away by boat in fours and fives.
    — Margery A. Beck, TIME, 25 June 2024

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