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How to use the word DOWNSTAIRS in a Sentence?

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I got through the kitchen and a tree fell on the house, and we made it downstairs just in time.

Pete Sullivan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's a few in Manhattan and other parts of New York as well and it's legal. You go downstairs, it's a basement, there'd be all these different rooms. There was a medical room for [a] nurse/doctor fantasy, there was a torture room, another type of chamber, a cross-dressing room, a schoolroom, for any type of fantasy. It's really like role playing, it's like acting. When people say how did you get your start in acting it's really like the dungeon because I would have to improv multiple times a day on very short notice.

Julia Fox

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Years ago a gentleman was charged with home invasion on my home. He forced his way into my home and I walked downstairs with a gun, but because of my training I didn’t escalate the situation and deadly force wasn’t necessary.

Geneva Solomon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I don't know if you ever get over something like that, you know, having two men in your bedroom in the middle of the night and one man downstairs, and just to be home alone with just your kids is just absolutely terrifying. PTSD, for sure.

Kyle Richards

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Oh it was pretty scary, I was worried about who was downstairs and how bad it was.

Coby Scherrill

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I walked downstairs and they warned me not to go to the bathroom because there were too many people in front of the lav door, there was one guy who had a box of water bottles that he was using for a pillow. I don’t know how that could have been comfortable. But, hey, he was fast asleep.

Braden Coleman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Titanic staff did an excellent job of getting people away from the area and downstairs then evacuating them out of the building.

Chief Tony L. Watson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Every five minutes it was one of the charities or a friend sending flowers so I'd have to run downstairs, open the door, take the flowers, bring them back in and upstairs, and then the doorbell would go again.

Andy Stenning/Mirrorpix/Getty Images -RRB- McGrady

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We were sleeping and woke up by a sound inside our kitchen, so we rushed downstairs and saw this elephant poked its head into our kitchen where the wall was broken.

Ratchadawan Puengprasoppon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I went downstairs to look at the TV and you see what happened to Jon and it's awful, he deserved to go out and play really well, and he was 18 under. The rules are rules and you have to follow guidelines.

Collin Morikawa

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I came downstairs, that’s how I dress.

Suzanne Somers

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’ve shared the medical records withtwo psychiatrists and three psych nurses, they all said there’s no proof at all that she was psychotic. She never showed any symptoms of it and nobody ever suspected of it. And if you look at her version of what happened that night, they were arguing, he was abusive and she went into a psychotic state and pulled the trigger. The problem is that they were upstairs and his guns were downstairs. He had a number of weapons because he was a former police officer.

Dorothy Marcic

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

But the amazing thing is, and a surprise even to me, that like after 32 years, he always wakes up before I do in the morning and I come downstairs during this COVID time and I'm like, 'How'd you sleep? How's your morning been so far?' And I really care. I really want to know.

Kyra Sedgwick

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I literally was like ‘Yep, snip, snip, snip.’ I’ve got a boy. I’m out. I’m out of here, the best thing about being at home, the best thing was, as soon he’s wrapped up, he’s skin on skin, straight downstairs. TV room. Golf on. This is what we’re doing.

Zara Tindall

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Jaylen has worked really hard to get back on the field and I know he wants nothing more than to play, but I think they’re just going to make that decision downstairs, but it’s his choice, and I feel like in watching him, he looks really good out there. So we’ll see what happens.

Mac Jones

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Itd be really cool, jaylen has worked really hard to get back on the field and I know he wants nothing more than to play, but I think theyre just going to make that decision downstairs.

Mac Jones

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I want my son to grow up whole. That's all we want. ... I come from Ferguson and this has been my passport to the world, and I can't even come downstairs in New York City... and just go get brunch without being attacked and wrongfully accused of something.

Keyon Harrold

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When I was upstairs in ICU fighting for my life, my mum was in a ward downstairs, basically passing away.

Sharlene Miller

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The attackers arrived on the stairs and started killing the women. My nephew shouted and said to me 'Uncle, please go downstairs', and when I tried to go downstairs, they shot my nephew in the head.

Harander Singh family

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I got the warning, and in less than 10 minutes you could just feel the pressure, my ears were popping we all ran downstairs and just huddled together, it went by so fast.

Danielle Theophile

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We immediately ran downstairs, went to the backyard, pulled out the hoses, there were flames and embers flying over those bushes at the back of our house and over our house.

Robert Delgado

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We got nervous, we got dizzy. I ran downstairs with three kids.

Arlene Puno

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Mom brought Mayor Mike Savage downstairs for me, we did n’t communicate about, oh the door is n’t locked.

Kelly Jackson

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

He completely emptied this out, walk in the living room and there’s stuff all over the floor that was in my room – teenage son’s room downstairs, it was sifted through. Went through my teenage daughter’s room, it was sifted through.

Emily Johnson

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

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