"staircase" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Next comes a glimpse - through a locked iron gate - of a majestic staircase flanked by classical statues; a lovely home; a wall, next to the road, topped by a dozen statues of male and female dwarfs.
- Ahead rose a narrow staircase, flanked by a small door probably leading to the cellar, while to the left and right were closed doors leading to rooms on the ground floor.
- The chapel's rectangular courtyard lies below the level of the roadway and walkway and is accessed by a short staircase flanked by plants, bordered by low walls capped by stonework.
- An enchanted staircase, flanked by greenery, leads into a cavern where a golden reclining Buddha lies peacefully next to a glass-walled memorial, dedicated in 2007, filled with the bones and skulls of some of the people bludgeoned to death by Khmer Rouge cadres before being thrown through the overhead skylight.
- The production looks good, too, with a grand staircase flanked on one side by the choir in bright African robes and on the other by a white piano on a platform, but the staging was not done with the people in the balcony in mind.
- Near the end of the song, Farmer moved toward the staircase flanked by red torches, to leave the stage which was then separated from the audience by a curtain of water.
- To enter the Sun today, a visitor walks past a broken pay phone, then ascends a large red staircase flanked by what appear to be freshly painted white walls.
- In a squalid tenement that reeks of garbage, up a dark staircase flanked by graffiti, the Muslims in the center of this teeming European capital find a place to pray.
- Steerpike bowed and retired, and returned by an alternative staircase flanked by a long, steep curve of banister, down which he slid at high speed, landing nimbly at the foot of the stairs with a kind of pounce.
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