Sentence examples for moving staircase from inspiring English sources

She might recognize that it's like a moving staircase, infer its use, and imagine riding on it.

Escalator, moving staircase used as transportation between floors or levels in subways, buildings, and other mass pedestrian areas.

The boy whose hand and fingers were caught in an escalator Thursday night at a Prince George's County mall has been extricated from the moving staircase.

Mark Brady, a Prince George's County fire department spokesman, said the six-year-old boy was taken to a hospital when he was finally freed after a more than two-hour effort to extricate him from the moving staircase.

Those lights, noises, street signs, road maps, random words that spell themselves into being, and, oh yes, that moving staircase that materializes out of nowhere: it all keeps coming at you, to the point that you expect your mind to give up and shut down.

The development of the electric motor by George Westinghouse in 1887 made possible the invention of the high-speed electric-powered roped elevator (called "lightning" elevators in comparison to the slower hydraulics) in 1889 and the electric-powered moving staircase, or escalator, in the 1890s.

My jaw dropped at the magnificent shots of Hogwarts' central hallway, with its moving staircases and animated, chattering portraits.

The Metrorail system in Washington has more escalators than any other transit system in North America, and lately those moving staircases have been having health problems of their own.

There was a palpable difference between the two; whereas the obsessions of Baker's (adult) narrator - about wing-flap milk cartons, and moving staircases - seemed genuinely compulsive, and to have grown out of a lifetime of looking, Larsen's seem too often the kind of thing that you might expect a prodigy could become hooked on in this kind of book.

From illuminated Art Deco designs with moving staircases to theatrical devastation featuring pyrotechnics, there was never a dull moment.

Fill her pockets with Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans and give her the freedom to explore moving staircases and enchanted alleyways.