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In this design, which opened in 1935, the grand rooms downstairs were what mattered.
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Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
For instance, François Boucher’s eighteenth-century paintings of toddlers engaged in the work of scientists, artists, and philosophers previously formed an odd parenthetical downstairs.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
In court, video showed Bishop calling Blackwell over to the computer, hitting her with a phone, throwing the phone through a wall and dragging her downstairs while ripping her shirt in the process.
—Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 5 Apr. 2025
Her mother, who lives downstairs, heard the shot and called 911 but couldn’t get to the upstairs apartment in her wheelchair.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 2 Apr. 2025
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Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
For instance, François Boucher’s eighteenth-century paintings of toddlers engaged in the work of scientists, artists, and philosophers previously formed an odd parenthetical downstairs.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
In court, video showed Bishop calling Blackwell over to the computer, hitting her with a phone, throwing the phone through a wall and dragging her downstairs while ripping her shirt in the process.
—Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 5 Apr. 2025
Her mother, who lives downstairs, heard the shot and called 911 but couldn’t get to the upstairs apartment in her wheelchair.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 2 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for downstairs
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“Downstairs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/downstairs. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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