escalator

Example Sentences

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“When you get to the bottom of an escalator, if you stop there and stand and look around, everybody’s coming down behind you. So you got to keep moving.”

From The Wall Street Journal

It’s like comparing a roller coaster to an escalator.

From The Wall Street Journal

On a visit to the Chicago store, Virginia Lee, a food-industry market researcher, watched customers descend the Whole Foods escalator, grabbing a Red Bull at Amazon Grocery on their way out.

From The Wall Street Journal

It corrupts the legal process, corrodes public faith in civic institutions, and invites further leaps up the partisan warfare escalator.

From The Wall Street Journal

But, as the UN made clear, the escalator suddenly stopped after a White House videographer accidentally triggered a safety mechanism.

From Salon