indoors

[in-dawrz, -dohrz]

adverb

1. in or into a house or building.

   We stayed indoors during the storm.

indoors

/ ˌɪnˈdɔːz /

adverb

1. (postpositive) inside or into a house or other building

Word History and Origins

Origin of indoors¹

1780–90; indoor + -s 1

Example Sentences

"Ensuring high air quality while indoors is crucial for mitigating the transmission of airborne disease, particularly in shared environments," says Dr. Li.

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Residents have been warned to remain indoors while armed officers try to track down the animal.

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The black-and-white photographs were taken indoors and outdoors, in public spaces and private ones.

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But in the early 1920s, Ecke’s son, horticulturalist Paul Ecke Sr., learned a secret way to create a compact single-stemmed plant with many blooming branches that could be grown in pots indoors.

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It will now be up to the inquiry to decide if making that call earlier could have saved lives and ultimately reduced the total time that people had to stay locked indoors.

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