Sentence examples for a downstairs from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a downstairs" is not correct and typically not used in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a lower level of a building, but the correct expression would usually be "downstairs" without the article.
Example: "I left my keys downstairs."
Alternatives: "the lower level" or "the ground floor".

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SMOKING -- Allowed in a downstairs lounge.

Servants: A Downstairs View of 20th-Century Britain.

Deputies found Anne McGuirt's body in a downstairs room.

My mother was asleep in a downstairs ­bedroom.

A swimming pool is suspended over a downstairs patio.

Agent Wong rang a downstairs door bell and a buzzer sounded, opening the door.

— A.D. "Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-Century Britain" (Bloomsbury), by Lucy Lethbridge, out November 18th.

In a downstairs toilet, the wallpaper sheets declaim the best of Richard III.

The couple's first battle at the Trafalgar was with a downstairs neighbor, Richard Pu.

On August 3rd 1963 Katharine Graham heard an ear-splitting noise from a downstairs bathroom.

Back at the hospital, the party was spilling into a downstairs hallway.

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