escalator
Example Sentences
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When Louis Vuitton opened a large flagship on the Champs-Élysées 20 years ago, there was genuine shock that a luxury store would even have an escalator.
General Assembly—here depicted as a collection of babies—about the building’s escalator malfunctioning.
“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.”
It’s like comparing a roller coaster to an escalator.
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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.