Sentence examples for stair from inspiring English sources
The phrase "stair" is correct and usable in written English, but it is incomplete as it stands alone without context.
You can use it when referring to a step or series of steps in a building or structure, typically for ascending or descending. Example: "She carefully climbed the stair to reach the second floor."
noun
A single step in a staircase.
So called "Treppenläufe" (stair runs) in between the concrete stands of the crumbling Parkstadion where the Royal Blues conduct their training sessions have been added to the daily curriculum.
His deceptively easygoing tapping proved the ideal accompaniment to little Shirley's shuffle, as in the Polly Wolly Doodle stair routine in The Littlest Rebel (1935).
It remains the world's worst offshore disaster, and on its 20th anniversary everyone is keen to talk about developments in oil-platform safety.Visiting the offices of one big oil firm last year, I was required to watch a video reminding me to hold on to the stair rails, watch for loose cables and keep the lid on any cups of hot coffee.
They smashed all the windows, ripped out stair boards, air-conditioners, western-style lavatories and electrical sockets, and hauled off the metal gates.The owners of these and several other villas have either fled or are in jail.
They were instantly on, shocking the rumpled sleeper in his bed, and as instantly off ("Oh, sorry!"), tripping the pensioner on the stair.
"There's no structure that tells you that this line is a wall, stair or window," says Chuck Eastman, a professor of architecture and computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
And Honda's iconic, stair-climbing, boogeying humanoid Asimo started out as a pair of robotic legs 25 years ago.
He is the inventor of the iBot, a stair-climbing wheelchair, and has built gizmos for the American army including robot arms and fin-like prosthetics that allow soldiers to swim at twice their usual speed.Lighting the waySuch a larger-than-life existence seems appropriate for a self-taught inventor whose father drew cartoons for Weird Science magazine in the 1950s.
Because the resulting stair-stepped landscapes (Treppen, the German word for "steps") of scarps and flats were presumed to reflect tectonics and to be correlatable, the term Tectonic Geomorphic School has been applied to its advocates.
Stair-step moss, (Hylocomium splendens), moss in the subclass Bryidae that covers areas of coniferous forest floor of the Northern Hemisphere and also occurs on dunes, ledges, and tundra.
The ziggurats of the Mesopotamian culture were elaborately designed and decorated, and their "stair-step" style ascended to a point where a god or gods could dwell and where only special priests were allowed.
