Sentence examples for ground floor left from inspiring English sources

The pounding became so frightening that Hannah, who was staying on the ground floor, left her room via an exterior door.

In addition to the natural protection provided by a cliff, the absence of doors and windows to the rooms on the ground floor left a solid outer stone wall that could be surmounted only by climbing a ladder; ladders could easily be removed if the town were attacked.

For the most part, the protesters stick to the ground floor, leaving government workers to go about their business elsewhere.

She spoke in the airy drawing room of the house she and 10 relatives now shared with a local family; the owner had moved himself, his wife and their three children into the unfinished ground floor, leaving the comfortable, perfumed second story for their guests.

The tsunami had wrecked the ground floor and left thick mud and debris across the entrance.

The ground floors are left largely open, providing a covered route in the tradition of the old arcaded college courts and forming expansive undercrofts that play host to impromptu outdoor dinners, while big roof terraces link the blocks at a higher level.

At the French cultural center, where looters burst water pipes and flooded the ground floor, books were left floating in the reading rooms and corridors, and a photograph of Jacques Chirac, the French president, was smashed.

True to Calvinist traditional, ground floor curtains are typically left open – a declaration of their owners having nothing to hide.

Inside, the ground floor is the bedroom, leaving the first floor chamber as a living space with fine views of the castle in the valley below.

Vivian Tucker, promoted this year to manager of Carleton's Tea Shop on the ground floor of the hotel, leaves three children behind in Jamaica.

Some people are moving stuff from ground floor buildings, while others leave their belongings where they are.