Sentence examples for upstairs from inspiring English sources
upstairs
Up the stairs; on a higher floor or level.
- I'll take my shoes and put them away the next time I go upstairs.
The word "upstairs" is correct and usable in written English. You can use it when referring to the location of something that is located above the floor you are currently on in a building. For example: "I left my phone upstairs.".
With luck there will still be white truffles to be eaten in Enrico Crippa's relaxed La Piola in Alba or upstairs in his smarter three-Michelin star Piazza Duomo.
"We put our phones and iPads upstairs and then I went round and turned absolutely everything off at the socket, apart from the fridge-freezer and the smart energy monitor.
The choice of one window upstairs, rather than two, gives a cottagey feel – and may well bring the same warm glow of picturesque pleasure that you get from watching a Hovis ad.
"Recently I did a kids' party in a house, I'm changing back into my clothes upstairs, the mum is at the bottom of the stairs giving out party bags and when I come down with my suitcase she grabs me and starts shaking me by the throat.
Every night at that point, give or take 10 minutes, she'd give a noisy yawn and trot happily upstairs.
Upstairs, the barman would thoroughly prepare a pisco sour, the national drink, at any time of day.
Upstairs in a lecture hall, and dotted around nearby classrooms, fellow students are curled up on the floor asleep.
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