How to Use downstairs in a Sentence

downstairs

1 of 3 adverb
  • He ran downstairs to answer the door.
  • He lives downstairs from us.
  • Lemus then went downstairs and ran away.
    — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Cody jumped up, leaped off the bed and ran downstairs to the kitchen.
    — cleveland, 3 June 2022
  • Head downstairs to find the area of the home that was built for events.
    — Ryan Conner, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Can someone bring up a purse that was left downstairs?
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The guys went downstairs and the ladies stayed upstairs to talk.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
  • He's lived downstairs with his owner for about ten years.
    — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Roy stormed downstairs to the product floor.
    — Sam Kriss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • With the rooftop shots nailed, Chin goes back downstairs to strength-train.
    — John Thompson, Men's Health, 19 Oct. 2022
  • My younger daughter, who wasn’t at school that day, came downstairs.
    — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The pastry shop downstairs is open.
    — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • One of the guys in my house was laying down downstairs and then just passed out.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2025
  • My oldest, 9, had crept downstairs from her bed to catch some of the game.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2026
  • There was a space downstairs that was a private space for gamedays.
    — oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Buck leads me through the living room to a hallway downstairs.
    — CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
  • And that might have played into my lack of feeling a need to go downstairs.
    — Jim Ryan, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • Her mother still sleeps downstairs.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 2 Oct. 2025
  • There’s a candy store downstairs.
    — Anna Ortiz, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Three of the children who died were found upstairs and one was found downstairs.
    — Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024
  • There were always mouse droppings in the kitchen area downstairs.
    — Kadish Morris, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
  • There’s a restaurant that’s downstairs.
    — Anna Ortiz, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The building shakes from the booming band downstairs.
    — Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The intruder ran past her downstairs and out of the house, the statement said.
    — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The survivors were both asleep downstairs, and a dog in the house was also unharmed.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Then glass shattered downstairs.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The family ran downstairs from their rooms and watched the elephant grab treats and take off.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 29 June 2022
  • For a Guinness, keep it simple and stay downstairs.
    — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Raskin went downstairs to his son’s bedroom and found Tommy’s body.
    — Andrea Stanley, Men's Health, 21 June 2023
  • Smith remained downstairs in the kitchen, hiding in her fort and waiting for the storm to pass.
    — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 29 Sep. 2022

downstairs

2 of 3 adjective
  • There are five downstairs rooms.
  • Our downstairs neighbors ask what all the noise is about.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The downstairs flex space was given a mature makeover for the kids.
    — Lauren Jones, House Beautiful, 15 Sep. 2021
  • At the home, police found an open safe in the downstairs office.
    — Christine Pelisek, Peoplemag, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The old ticket office will be a downstairs bar.
    — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • The main entrance is on the street level, while the check-in desk is downstairs.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Upstairs will be warmer than downstairs, all things being equal.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 17 Feb. 2021
  • The victims were trapped in a downstairs room of the residence in the fire.
    — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 8 Dec. 2025
  • The mixed zoning would even allow for a downstairs business and a rental.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 26 May 2021
  • Amat said that there are an upstairs, a downstairs and a courtyard area.
    — NBC News, 1 Apr. 2021
  • But the hotel's rooftop spa is a complete plot twist from that downstairs ambiance.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 June 2026
  • Our downstairs neighbor Alex had gotten his bike stolen by a twelve-year-old.
    — Sarah Adler september 8, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Get to the downstairs bathtub, cover the wife and kids, and pull a mattress over his back.
    — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2021
  • Raskin found his son the next morning, lying in his bed in the downstairs apartment in their home.
    — Caitlin Gibson, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Because its site slopes steeply, the house has upstairs and downstairs entrances.
    — Dean Kaufman, Curbed, 30 June 2026
  • Woodruff and the suspect, Holmes, lived in the downstairs unit, police said.
    — Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The downstairs fifth bedroom down can be utilized in a variety of ways.
    — Lesa Stuart, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Then there were her two downstairs neighbors who had recently had a baby.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Worried about wasps that sometimes lurk upstairs, all nine are camping out in the downstairs room.
    — New York Times, 15 Dec. 2021
  • The upstairs and downstairs worlds, men and women, old and young, all living under one roof.
    — Simon Thompson, Forbes, 22 May 2022
  • There were three occupants in the upstairs unit and two in the downstairs unit, Beaulieu said.
    — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The downstairs unit has room for four guests with a total of two bathrooms, two bedrooms, and one sofa bed.
    — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 20 May 2021
  • But the series is so much more than a murder mystery or an upstairs/downstairs drama.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The downstairs area where the shooting took place is a sacred space, off limits to visitors.
    — Vanessa Williams, Washington Post, 22 May 2022
  • The downstairs primary bedroom has a see-through fireplace, a sitting area and a wet bar.
    — Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2021
  • My downstairs neighbor was a courteous young man who drove a Lexus and kept a pair of pet monkeys.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Small black spots have since appeared on the downstairs bathroom floor and baseboards, while large patches have grown on the wall above.
    — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 18 Oct. 2021
  • In a downstairs bathroom, the couple combined a black toilet and sink with a sequin-like wall of brass tiles.
    — Alina Dizik, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Hogan’s has a downstairs Mill Shop and an upstairs Tap Room for adults.
    — Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The downstairs primary suite includes a sitting area and a spa-like bathroom.
    — Dallas News, 13 June 2021

downstairs

3 of 3 noun
  • There’s a drag cabaret in the dinner theatre downstairs, which is so much fun.
    — Noo Saro-Wiwa, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 July 2023
  • Let the schmuck tumble downstairs with a happy clash of cymbals.
    — Christian Wiman, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • These are the neighborhood coffee shop, the sweet green downstairs.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 10 Mar. 2026
  • There’s a snacks menu with bites from Somaek, plus a dedicated sushi bar downstairs.
    — Tanya Edwards, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 June 2026
  • An upstairs laundry saves a hike downstairs, where a rec room, wet bar, exercise room and more guest quarters await.
    — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Doris and Ann, the family’s longtime upstairs-downstairs maids, were there too.
    — Jennifer Cannon, Vanity Fair, 7 Apr. 2026
  • That’s when this upstairs-downstairs comedy becomes a whodunit.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2025
  • That’s when this upstairs-downstairs comedy becomes a whodunit.
    — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The two-story building features a full-service bar downstairs, plus a rooftop bar with seating overlooking The Plaza.
    — Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The upstairs-downstairs dynamic of the club primes us to think of the associations between the characters in a transactional way.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Hollywood has pushed action into hanging off of planes or cars tumbling downstairs, which is all great and enjoyable, but there is something about the physics of a real-world chase scene that was fun to get back to.
    — EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • An upstairs-downstairs work of historical fiction with a premise farcical enough to fuel an Oscar Wilde play seems like a solid first step toward the genre.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Eventually, Georgi crossed paths with Darcey, Stacey and Florian downstairs, where tempers flared once again.
    — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The Residence combines the twisty appeal of a murder mystery with juicy upstairs-downstairs intrigue, opting not to subvert its genre conventions but to lovingly embrace them.
    — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
  • Despite this, the Tiny Rubik does a good job of squeezing in a compact but well-designed layout that fits a small family, including a downstairs sleeping space and another up top.
    — New Atlas, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The 2017 two-bedroom residence or vacation rental features open shelving, a wood stove, a kitchen with flat-front cabinets, and a downstairs with a double bunk room, a laundry, and an extra space.
    — The Week Us, TheWeek, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The gradually emergent upstairs-downstairs theme was explored with more sophistication on The White Lotus.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2026
  • In the summer of 2022, Bazzana crashed for about 10 weeks in the spare downstairs bedroom at the Rowland-Smith residence in the Seattle area.
    — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • On one hand, the film is the ultimate nostalgia bait, the third spinoff of Julian Fellowes’s upstairs-downstairs series that debuted in 2010 and has endured, in some form or another, since then.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Wilde directs off a screenplay by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack based on the Spanish upstairs/downstairs movie The People Upstairs.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Via archival footage curated by director Simon Curtis, viewers were invited to the ultimate upstairs-downstairs soiree, with younger versions of fan favorite characters (circa Season 1) mixing, mingling and celebrating life.
    — Andy Swift, TVLine, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The Emmy Award-winning show quickly became a global phenomenon, chronicling the upstairs-downstairs lives of the Crawley family and their staff in the early 20th century, through World War I and into the roaring ’20s.
    — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • In that way, Bridgerton has been different from other upstairs-downstairs shows like Downton Abbey and The Gilded Age, which have worked in political and social storylines about Irish independence, American spiritualism, and new versus old money.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026

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