stairway
noun
Origin of stairway
Examples from the Web for stairway
Contemporary Examples of stairway
Bucca hung up the phone and started up the stairway with fellow fire marshal John Devery.
I look around the stairway, and I see Al Capone and another guy sitting in the living room having a beef about ‘receipts.’
And now that same song, “Stairway to Heaven” is at the center of another battle over ownership.
For more than a half-century before “Stairway to Heaven,” recording artists had been doing this, usually with impunity.
Despite what some have claimed, the cited passages from “Stairway to Heaven” and “Spirit” are not identical.
Historical Examples of stairway
The stairway was very narrow, and formed a regular spiral as in a turret.
MalboneThomas Wentworth Higginson
She looked down the hall, up the stairway, and went on to the living room.
Her Father's DaughterGene Stratton-Porter
As she closed the front door she cried up the stairway: "Eileen, are you there?"
Her Father's DaughterGene Stratton-Porter
"With your permission," he said negligently; and drew the girl aside to the angle of the stairway.
The Black BagLouis Joseph Vance
Finally the man flung his cigar overboard and went down the stairway.
In a Steamer Chair and Other StoriesRobert Barr