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.”
Her children and more than a dozen other loved ones reached the escalator where she would appear, and waited.
From Seattle Times
“Partners of the firm have been chased up the escalator, with people running — screaming, you know, ‘C.C.P. dog,’” he said.
From New York Times
Sound Transit is already behind on key projects, and downtown light-rail stations have continuing problems with elevators and escalators, including those wrecked by vandalism.
From Seattle Times
Mechanics rewired a flooded International District/Chinatown escalator March 6, and parts are on order to restart it in the next few months.
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
