stairwell
Example Sentences
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The newly sanctioned apartments in Culver City are modeled on Seattle’s ordinance with fire prevention in mind: The unit count is capped, minimizing the chances of overcrowding in the stairwell.
From Los Angeles Times
“So we woke up and sort of scrambled and ran to the stairwell.”
From Washington Times
To keep people calm in the stairwell, he sang the same songs he had once crooned to cheer up his fellow soldiers during the Vietnam War.
It even destroyed evidence of its wrongdoing—by dousing documents with acid and chucking shredded slips at the bottom of a stairwell and in the back of a truck.
From Scientific American
Affordable and durable but polished to a luxurious sheen, the compound has become a commonplace of modern architecture, found everywhere from subway stairwells to the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
From New York Times
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