How to Use stepladder in a Sentence

stepladder

noun

• Use a stepladder to reach items.
  — Michelle Mastro, Architectural Digest, 23 Oct. 2025
• She wasn't allowed inside but stood on a stepladder and looked over a gate.
  — CBS News, 28 June 2019
• The first barrier is easy enough; a small stepladder or a friend provides a boost.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, latimes.com, 4 Sep. 2017
• Inside Jack found a little lamp to switch on, clamped to the edge of a stepladder.
  — Elizabeth McCracken, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2021
• McEntire uses a stepladder to place an angel on the top of her tree.
  — Caché McClay, Nashville Tennessean, 1 Dec. 2025
• Edney climbed a stepladder, snipped the net and collected a piece for himself.
  — Gene Wojciechowski, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2020
• Meyer got there, and he's stayed there by using the Wolverines as a stepladder.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland.com, 4 Nov. 2017
• The lucky ones have shutters or awnings, but others must climb stepladders to hang sheets or tablecloths from windows.
  — Henry Grabar, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026
• Now the conductors climb their stepladders, and the battle begins.
  — Zack Arias, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• In front of the sign stood helmeted construction workers and a stepladder.
  — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Apr. 2023
• Just before the parade starts, Chantelle climbs up a small stepladder to address the crowd as the sky begins to darken.
  — Suzanne Van Atten, ajc, 12 Oct. 2013
• His humble tools—a wooden kitchen spoon, an aluminum stepladder, and a green plastic garbage pail—now have a new home at the museum.
  — Theresa McCulla, Smithsonian, 16 Sep. 2019
• Waskom barely made the top eight before going on a run in the two-game semifinals that qualified him for the stepladder.
  — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 13 Feb. 2023
• At cycling events participants often stand on a footstool or stepladder to load and unload their bikes.
  — Ken Van Vechten, latimes.com, 24 June 2018
• As the partisan is climbing a stepladder outside the house to look into the window of this room, the owner returns.
  — Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 31 Mar. 2021
• Scaling Dubai’s Burj Khalifa was like climbing a stepladder next to this.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2019
• Meanwhile, a man named Andreas was standing on a stepladder completely costumed and covered from head to toe.
  — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 4 July 2018
• The second floor, which can sleep up to four people, is six feet from the ground and accessed by a stepladder, offering a safe space to shelter during flooding.
  — Rebecca Cairns, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
• This multilevel raised garden bed gives you five planters suspended on a freestanding, sturdy black metal frame that opens like a stepladder.
  — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 17 Feb. 2023
• Eventually the Wolves notched the top seed in the stepladder finals, while Portage qualified third.
  — Johnny Gorches, Post-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2018
• Everett Reynolds, a 23-year-old Waukegan resident, stood on a stepladder, adding detail and depth to one of the boy’s hands.
  — Emily K. Coleman, Lake County News-Sun, 13 July 2018
• At the very top of my closet, there’s a secret shelf stacked with at least two dozen pairs, accessible only via stepladder and a bit of physical contortion.
  — Emily Farra, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2019
• Then six more games produced four bowlers who competed in a stepladder format, resulting in McCarthy's win.
  — Gentry Estes, The Courier-Journal, 11 June 2018
• Despite its massive 17-inch wheels and overblown 31-inch tires, it can be mounted without a stepladder and drives surprisingly like a sedan.
  — Charles Fleming, latimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Upstairs the house has also been extended, adding a primary suite with a spacious terrace in the upper story of the barn, once its hay loft and accessed only by a stepladder.
  — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 8 July 2021
• Each bracket match leading to the stepladder included three games, with total pinfall determining which player advanced.
  — Dennis Manoloff, cleveland.com, 23 May 2017
• Climbing a stepladder can be slightly risky but falling off an extension ladder can send you to the emergency room, says Di Martino.
  — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2021
• In each of the viewing areas exposed to the sky, a half-dozen large white telescopes had been set up beforehand, complete with stepladders to reach eyepieces already zeroed in on a planet or galaxy.
  — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 11 Jan. 2026
• The photographer, Daniel Benson, stood precariously on a stepladder, wobbling on the rocks amidst ocean spray.
  — Martha Ward, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Mar. 2024
• But recent history suggests that a second-place finish at the Masters isn't necessarily a stepladder to a major title.
  — Jim Souhan, Star Tribune, 11 Apr. 2021