How to Use escalator in a Sentence

escalator

noun
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  • The escalator alongside the stairs provides one of the best rides in L.A.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Fare evaders hopped the gates and loitered at the top of the Metro station escalators.
    — Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The Trump who came down the escalator in 2015 didn’t have many heavyweights in tow.
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Look for the outdoor escalators set back from the sidewalk.
    — Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The evening is going well, only for Claire to get her coat stuck in an escalator.
    — Lillian Brown, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Near the Starbucks off the second-floor escalator at the JW Marriott.
    — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2023
  • For the first time in years, Jackson took an escalator by himself.
    — David Begnaud, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The footage shows Hudson and two of his friends head toward an escalator when they were blocked from doing so.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Another man calls out his name as the trio goes down an escalator.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The crowd takes the escalators up to the Governors Ball, the Academy’s on-site after-party.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Cardholders and their guests take the escalator (or stairs) to the second floor, past a set of iconic AmEx-blue double doors.
    — Chris Dong, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The baby’s blanket was hanging over the the moving steps of the escalator, inches away from being snatched up in its teeth and pulling them all over.
    — Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 15 June 2022
  • In March, two men were seen fighting on an escalator and also falling down the stairs.
    — Emma Colton, Fox News, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The footage shows Elena-Lopez attacking a woman on the escalator with his bike lock.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 28 Dec. 2021
  • So, here's this guy coming down the escalator, a rich guy, married three times, pretty foul mouth.
    — ABC News, 28 Jan. 2024
  • All the Amtrak trains (not just some) are accessible by escalator from the main hall.
    — Richard Zoglin, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
  • But all that was background noise compared to things like Brynn Whitfield breaking the escalator with her Louboutins.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The interaction with the woman on the escalator seemed funny at first.
    — Francesca Street, CNN, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The footage showed a man wearing sunglasses and a black hoodie walking up the mall’s escalator with an object in his hand.
    — Kim Tong-Hyung, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Workers wearing the suits tested an escalator handrail for the coronavirus at the main press center one day.
    — Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2022
  • This time around there was no escalator to carry him down, like Zeus descending from the heavens.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The new Ralph Lauren store is on the second level and accessible by stairs and the escalator that used to take moviegoers up to the theater.
    — Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Only a couple of the LIRR gates provide direct escalator access down to the boarding area.
    — Richard Zoglin, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Last week a big array of scaffolding — akin to a sidewalk shed, but indoors — and a crane went up in Moynihan Train Hall over the escalators leading down to Tracks 13 and 14.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 3 Nov. 2023
  • At Logan Airport, Larry came down the escalator and spotted Guillermo’s face in the crowd.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Hirst’s video, which features a swath of young people in suit jackets moving up an escalator, has accrued more than 8.5 million views over the past week.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 5 July 2022
  • Garlands ripple down like silver rain above the escalators and walls.
    — Annie Ernaux, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Models arrived at the makeshift runway using an escalator from the mall’s bottom floor.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2022
  • When the announcement comes, there’s the inevitable stampede for that too-narrow escalator.
    — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • This couldn’t be more condescending if an inmate said it on a down escalator.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2021

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