Sentence examples for sofa up from inspiring English sources

If the stairs corner or change direction, as in a flight of stairs, you will need to stand the sofa up on one of its ends (the arms).

"I don't think I could haul a sofa up a fire escape," he said.

In an episode of Friends, the group attempt to carry Ross's new sofa up the stairs to his apartment – and get stuck.

Unfortunately, maneuvering the sofa up the cramped stairwell and fitting it through the narrow door of our sixth-floor walkup will make it a complicated delivery.

Unfortunately, maneuvering the sofa up the cramped stairwell and fitting it through the narrow door of our sixth-floor walkup will make it a complicated delivery.

(Grammatical precedent exists in perfectly normal constructions such as "high-walled city" or "long-legged squirrel"). Similarly, turning "open-plan" into "open-planned" emphasises the careful ratiocination of the flipper at the very moment he rammed a sofa up one end of the kitchen, in order to bedroom the place up and add £50,000 to the asking price.

see how my old sofa holds up! and outraced this crowded place.

But the client insisted, and the sofa took up so much space that nothing else fit in the room.

She pats the seat beside her on a sofa, coaxing up her gray Persian cat, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with luminescent orange eyes.

The Universe has basically sat down on the sofa, pulled up a blanket and is about to nod off for an eternal doze," he said.

It can be cloudy, sometimes it rains or a plane flies over, but I can just lie here on the sofa, look up and think about things.