How to Use ground floor in a Sentence

ground floor

noun
  • Like it or not, this is a ground floor — but not for long.
    — Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The best way to see how big this could get is to get in on the ground floor.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Plus, the unit — which is on the ground floor — doesn’t get much light or have any views.
    — Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2021
  • Rum offers consumers the chance to get in at the ground floor.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2021
  • All ground floor apartments would have front porches open to the street.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 10 Apr. 2022
  • All ground floor apartments will have front porches to open to the street.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Yup, the room was empty; yup there was a wide-open ground floor window.
    — Star Tribune, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Daniels is already planning an art gallery on the ground floor of one of her homes.
    — Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 2 May 2021
  • The building holds just 11 suites and has a stylish bar on its ground floor.
    — Emilio Parra Doiztua, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • This change allowed the kitchen to open out to the rest of the spaces on the ground floor.
    — Kate Reggev, House Beautiful, 15 July 2020
  • The stairs were added to link the ground floor to the childrens’ rooms on the second floor.
    — Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Shops would line the first two floors, with a small and intimate whiskey den on the ground floor.
    — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 17 May 2021
  • The laundry, once placed in the basement, is now on the ground floor, along with a mud room.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 30 June 2019
  • The ground floor of the garage would house retail space and window displays.
    — Nancy Sarnoff, Houston Chronicle, 11 Nov. 2019
  • On the ground floor was a handy restaurant, a barber shop and a tailor’s shop.
    — Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 7 Nov. 2020
  • The ground floor looks much the same, as does the pinball bay on the second landing.
    — Eder Campuzano, OregonLive.com, 7 June 2018
  • The scrolls were stacked in bags and shoved into old glass cabinets on the ground floor.
    — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2021
  • Three floors lost walls and windows, and a store on the ground floor was reduced to rubble.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2022
  • Two are on the ground floor, and the upstairs door on the left used to lead to a porch roof that's no longer there.
    — Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati.com, 10 July 2019
  • The survivors were on the ground floor while the four victims were on the second and third floors.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The Frank Lloyd Wright Trust runs a store on the ground floor.
    — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The house is built on a slope, with steps leading up to the front door and a living room on the ground floor.
    — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 10 June 2021
  • Stores can be on the second floor, showrooms on the ground floor, and restaurants can be pop-ups.
    — Mark Holgate, Vogue, 13 May 2019
  • Heade lives on the ground floor while the upstairs, with two bedrooms and a bathroom, were rarely used.
    — oregonlive, 31 Oct. 2021
  • With a sleeper sofa on the ground floor, the Silo sleeps up to four.
    — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The shops will be on the ground floor of the new building under construction.
    — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 24 Mar. 2020
  • The evening kicked off with a cocktail hour held on the museum’s ground floor level.
    — Leigh Nordstrom, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Plans are for the theater to occupy three-fourths of the ground floor and the basement.
    — Doug George, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Flores was on the ground floor; a colleague was on the second floor, on top of the open stairwell.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2020
  • There will be 3,500 square feet of commercial space on the ground floor.
    — Anna Beahm | [email protected], al.com, 16 July 2019

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