How to Use escalator in a Sentence

escalator

noun
  • The escalator lurched to a halt just after the pair got on.
    — Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
  • On escalators, stand to the right.
    — Susanne Fowler, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Another man calls out his name as the trio goes down an escalator.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2023
  • As the escalators went up and down, so did hundreds of shoppers, bags in hand.
    — Marissa Armas, CBS News, 28 Nov. 2025
  • So an escalator that won’t work for him must be part of a grand conspiracy, right?
    — Chris Brennan, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The evening is going well, only for Claire to get her coat stuck in an escalator.
    — Lillian Brown, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023
  • First, the escalator going up to the main speaking floor came to a screeching halt.
    — James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Fare evaders hopped the gates and loitered at the top of the Metro station escalators.
    — Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2023
  • For the first time in years, Jackson took an escalator by himself.
    — David Begnaud, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2022
  • So, here's this guy coming down the escalator, a rich guy, married three times, pretty foul mouth.
    — ABC News, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Garlands ripple down like silver rain above the escalators and walls.
    — Annie Ernaux, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2023
  • In March, two men were seen fighting on an escalator and also falling down the stairs.
    — Emma Colton, Fox News, 17 Oct. 2022
  • This couldn’t be more condescending if an inmate said it on a down escalator.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Each color line has wacky quirks; Sometimes your escalator works!
    — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 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
  • Fans have been seen performing the row on an escalator in Boston.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 1 July 2026
  • But now, alas, there is a new golden escalator crowding out that mythology.
    — Chris Brennan, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
  • In the video, the man could be seen rushing down an escalator while on fire as other commuters moved out of his way, and the air filled with smoke.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Turnstiles are easy to install if there are stairs or escalators to a subway, for example.
    — Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Some functions made sense, like triggering an escalator or opening a door.
    — Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 14 Apr. 2026
  • As the suspect attempted to make a clean getaway via the store’s downward escalator, the guard made his move.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Find out if the contract includes an escalator — a more expensive price in future years.
    — Jeff Brady, NPR, 25 Feb. 2026
  • According to shoppers, it's even been dropped down an escalator and a flight of stairs with little damage.
    — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Secrets is on the up escalator to the main stage as Truss passes by on the down escalator.
    — Rob Crilly, The Washington Examiner, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Models arrived at the makeshift runway using an escalator from the mall’s bottom floor.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • Made of concrete, steel and glass, the building had escalators in the lobby to carry people to the first couple of floors.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Freep.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Made of concrete, steel and glass, the building had escalators in the lobby to carry people to the first couple of floors.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025

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