ladder

Example Sentences

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Further down the ladder is Maisy Creed, an up and coming driver who has already caught the eye of Formula 1 teams at the age of 16.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

However, defenders of Help to Buy said it helped many people onto the housing ladder and led to more homes being built.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

In her piece this week, Rachel Ensign looks at a report showing that more families are scaling the economic ladder into higher-earning groups.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

Meta styled Muse Spark as “the first step on our scaling ladder and the first product of a ground-up overhaul.”

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

We walked on home with the ladder, stepping high over shadows, in a drone of locusts and the gathering gloom, the night before school took up.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck