Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: stairway
IPA transcription: [st'ɛɹw,eɪ]
Pronunciations of stairway
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: stairway, staircase
    Meaning: a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps
Usage examples
  • In a moment I watched her fade down the dusky stairway.
  • But he stopped suddenly as he emerged, not upon the tongue, but upon still another stairway.
  • That stairway must lead to the top of the building, and thence there should be some access to the amphitheatre.
  • And the child cried and threw it upon the stairway and chipped and broke its edges and asked for the golden ball.
  • Red slaughter down below, a very inferno of sound; above, that shadowy stairway, still extending almost to the heavens.
  • The cattle cars of the Manhattan Elevated rattled away, and John Perkins drifted down the stairway of the station with the released flock.
  • "I'm just going up to look over some of my mother's things." And she turned to the back stairway, and went up, closing the door behind her.
  • It has a hall with a pretty stairway, three rooms and a large shed downstairs, and two rooms and a very large hall closet on the second floor.
  • Then running down the stairway of the gods with tripping feet, chalcedony, onyx, chalcedony, onyx, step by step, she cast her golden ball across the sky.
  • Pushing his way through the crowds in Main Street, young George Willard concealed himself in the stairway leading to Doctor Reefy's office and looked at the people.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording 2012 phenomenon, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording D. B. Cooper, License CC BY-SA 4.0