stairwell - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • block: They are working with the local Housing Office to address matters like drug dealing in the stairwells of blocks.
  • building: The Museum hive The Museum maintains a small hive of honey bees located on the south west stairwell of the building.

Converse of object

  • panel: Original features abound - a bread oven alcove, exposed A frames with pegs, wooden paneled stairwell and original floor tiles.
  • enter: In reality - post conversion - the loft door was removed and natural light enters the stairwell from the loft area.
  • include: Stairs ( with half landing ) from sitting room leading up to: - Galleried Landing 7ft 6in x 7ft ( including stairwell ).
  • see: Follow it for about 20m, and then look to your right and you will see a stairwell.
  • use: One person uses one stairwell and the other the opposite.

Adjective modifier

  • communal: Communal stairwells, lighting and estate maintenance The Council will undertake a rigorous repairs regime of all its communal areas and estates.
  • dark: The robots are swimming toward us down the dark stairwell.
  • central: Beyond the deserted office rooms we were at a central stairwell, at the bottom of which was a two-storey statue of Algeroth.
  • main: On the second floor, accessed from the main stairwell, is a large triple bedroom ideal for older children.
  • open: The open stairwell would simply make that impossible in its open plan setup.
  • west: Concrete repairs were also successfully completed to the internal and external parapets and to the east and west stairwells.

Modifies a noun

  • door: Thereâs no reception area either - the stairwell door opens onto a single, open-plan office.
  • area: Pass through the double doors into the stairwell area and then go straight ahead through another set of double doors.
  • landing: Old furniture A photo of a 17th or 18th century carved chair found in a hotel stairwell landing in Northallerton, West Yorkshire.
  • opening: Dormer windows and stairwell openings are formed by placing multiple trusses either side of the openings and framing the resulting space with loose timbers.

Noun used with modifier

  • tenement: Believing she had wandered off into the tenement stairwell, Colleen went in search of the errant animal.
  • entrance: A case in point is the feature lighting of the entrance stairwell at Lloyds Court in Newcastle.
  • stone: Skinny gray cats weave in and around narrow alleyways, or snooze in steep stone stairwells.

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