stair

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01. The young boy ran up the [stairs] with excitement.
02. The old woman was gasping for breath by the time she reached the top of the [stairs].
03. Climbing [stairs] burns about two and a half times more calories than swimming for the same amount of time.
04. Why are you taking the elevator to go up just one floor? I'm taking the [stairs].
05. I hopped out of bed around 9:00, and ran down the [stairs] to the breakfast table.
06. The old man slowly walked up the [stairs] to the house.
07. He broke his leg when he fell down the [stairs].
08. The woman stood at the foot of the [stairs] and called her children to supper.
09. He ran to the top of the [stairs] and knocked on the door.
10. I tripped on the top [stair] and fell all the way to the bottom.
11. The little girl bounded up the [stairs] two at a time, and banged on the door.
12. The building is completely inaccessible to people in wheelchairs, as there is no elevator, and the [stairs] are too steep.
13. A Kurdish proverb notes that [stairs] are climbed step by step.
14. Once a year, the CN Tower in Toronto lets people walk up the [stairs] to the top of the building.
15. A man named Jeff Adams went all the way up the 1,776 [stairs] to the top of the CN Tower in his wheelchair to illustrate the barriers facing people with disabilities.
16. Joe Girard once said that the elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the [stairs]... one step at a time.
17. Dottie Walters once noted that success is not a doorway, it's a [staircase].

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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Synonyms:
, / (of a flight of stairs)


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