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downstairs

noun as in floor

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Example Sentences

I went downstairs to get something and I heard one of the security team say to another, “Dude, I think they ought to lock these doors.”

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He favors complete focus on Bills games, and so Johnson retreated to the third-floor attic, alone, while his wife and kids watched downstairs.

He’d sneak downstairs to make one for himself, but I’d always find him.

We dress early for our reservation to allow a little time downstairs for a game of pool.

Whenever people lingered downstairs or smoked out on the patio, staff ushered them back to their rooms.

Before long, however, he began to feel out of place and went back downstairs for a while to chat up the cook.

Victoria was, for example, not allowed to walk downstairs without Conroy holding her hand.

I immediately went downstairs and told Dad about the dream whilst he was having his breakfast.

He lived in the Pseudo office, where his downstairs neighbors included Jeff Koons.

My coworkers used to run downstairs to stand on 53rd Street and watch celebrities arrive.

The night wore on, and the clock downstairs was striking the hour of two when she suddenly awakened.

He could lie in bed and string himself tales of travel and adventure while Harry was downstairs.

Shrieking inarticulate anathema, he rushed downstairs, the man in the green baize apron following at his heels.

The detective went downstairs and talked with Mrs. McCarthy a few minutes, and then took his leave.

She was so bewildered as to be more alive to the present distress of his condition than to the vague horrors downstairs.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to downstairs, such as: basement, canvas, carpet, deck, flooring, and ground.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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