Sentence examples for instead of elevators from inspiring English sources

Use the stairs instead of elevators," says Dr. Shawn Khodadadian.

I basically stay in shape by walking everywhere and opting to take the stairs instead of elevators.

In 1998, making a physical investment in social capital, Alcoa moved its headquarters from a 31-story tower to 6-story building that featured open offices, glass-walled conference rooms and escalators instead of elevators.

Also, encourage physical activity as part of the routines of life by having children walk instead of ride, take stairs instead of elevators or help out with gardening, shoveling snow, vacuuming or other active household chores.

Re Nicholas D. Kristof's Jan . 31column about obesity, and his argument that we should use stairs instead of elevators: A few years ago, I worked as a lawyer on the 25th floor of a skyscraper.

Examples include offering flexible work schedules, giving workers latitude in decision-making, setting reasonable health goals, providing social support, enforcing health-promoting policies and establishing a healthy physical environment (healthy food offerings, staircases instead of elevators, walking trails in and outside buildings and treadmill workstations).

The city just recently gathered typical Helsinki soundscapes from the public and uses them with the city's phone services instead of elevator-style waiting music.

My children have been known to make fun of my accent and the fact that I say footpath instead of sidewalk, lift instead of elevator — a remnant of my British post-colonial upbringing.

To say "flat" in place of "apartment," or "lift" instead of "elevator" is also pretentious when you are an American and have been back in the States for a while.

Or it may be that the words will attack vertically (in which case the Americana Hotel, with its 50 floors named for states, is a prophet, too), and instead of elevator indicators flashing 11, 12, 14, they will flash PLaza, Rhinelander, TOmkins.

They even put "lift scene" on the callsheet instead of "elevator scene" in deference to my heritage.