winding staircase


noun
  1. another word for spiral staircase

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How to use winding staircase in a sentence

  • As we wrapped up our interview, Cosby paused and took a seat on the steps of his winding staircase.

  • There was this winding staircase and the house would feel like it was about to fall apart.

    Michael Shannon Goes Crazy | Marlow Stern | September 30, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Without another word she left him, and where he stood he could hear her steps as she tripped down the winding staircase of stone.

    St. Martin's Summer | Rafael Sabatini
  • Julian followed him, in silence, up an old-fashioned winding staircase, within a turret.

    Peveril of the Peak | Sir Walter Scott
  • So she walked slowly down the winding staircase, grave, abstracted, as though revolving some weighty purpose in her mind.

    Sarchedon | G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville
  • He went slowly up the winding staircase which was so remarkable a feature of the finer Georgian houses.

    The Red City | S. Weir Mitchell
  • In the lower hall he suddenly struck a parlor match that flared up and illumined the winding staircase to the third story.

    Warrior Gap | Charles King