How to Use stairwell in a Sentence

stairwell

noun

• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• 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 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
• Since there's no outdoor storage, the cubby under the stairwell can be a great place to store a fold-up bike and sports gear.
  — Angela Belt, House Beautiful, 22 Feb. 2023
• D’souza met me at the corner of 158th Street and Archer Avenue, at a stairwell leading down into the station.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 14 May 2022
• The woodwork above the stairwell and in Kate’s office was inspired by the mid-century homes in Palm Springs.
  — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
• Because a stairwell is a high-traffic area, be sure to choose frames with slim profiles.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2023
• Displaced people were sleeping in tents, in stairwells, in any patch of space.
  — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024