How to Use upstairs in a Sentence

upstairs

1 of 3 adverb
  • She was on her way upstairs when she heard a car drive up.
  • When you go upstairs, bring these towels with you.
  • Pan ran upstairs with an idea to push it further.
    — Brody Miller, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • All three bedrooms plus a flex area are upstairs.
    — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The dogs have naffed off upstairs to avoid the racket.
    — The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 18 June 2026
  • The man upstairs, he's got other things in store.
    — Christopher Harris, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Room service runs around the clock for guests who plan to stay upstairs.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Come straight upstairs, cut off her clothing, tie her, rape her.
    — Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Tracy and her son sat upstairs.
    — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • All four bedrooms are found upstairs.
    — Colson Thayer, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Rose thinks about her painting upstairs.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Take a tour upstairs to find an office or loft space and a third bedroom.
    — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Two bedrooms and a loft leave plenty of space for guests upstairs.
    — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Did something happen upstairs as far as the roof?
    — Eva Andersen, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Belly doesn’t believe him and runs upstairs to check on him.
    — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Williams then went upstairs to confront Thomas.
    — Timia Cobb breaking News Reporter, Dallas Morning News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • There were some, maybe two or three scenes, that were reshot that were live with Adam upstairs.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 11 Mar. 2026
  • In the summertime, head upstairs for some fish tacos and drinks on the rooftop deck.
    — Katherine Lawless, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2026
  • His daughter, working upstairs, let outt a cry.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Guys sleeping upstairs on a hardwood floor.
    — Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The mother went upstairs and saw Jones on the floor groaning.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Plan to clean from top to bottom, starting upstairs and working your way down.
    — Lauren Wellbank, Martha Stewart, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Heading upstairs, one passes by the small powder room on the ground floor.
    — Annabelle Dufraigne, Architectural Digest, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Your antique four-poster bed is either right upstairs—or only a short walk away.
    — Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Holding said Ye then called him upstairs to confront him.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2026
  • In the shoe salon upstairs, grab a matching pair of pumps to complete your new look.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Glass could then be heard smashing in the background as Ray made his way upstairs.
    — Kirsty Hatcher, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
  • That kind of turned everything upstairs into fight or flight.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The four spacious bedrooms are upstairs, along a laundry room with sink and counter space.
    — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • My family was still asleep upstairs; the gray winter light seeped through the cracks in the blinds.
    — Mckay Coppins, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2026

upstairs

2 of 3 adjective
  • You can use the upstairs bathroom.
  • An upstairs bonus room with a bathroom can be used as a game room.
    — oregonlive, 27 July 2022
  • Kaylee and Maddie were stabbed to death in the upstairs part of the house.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2023
  • No upstairs bathroom, but plumbing has been roughed in for one.
    — Jon Gorey, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022
  • The rest of the four bedrooms are upstairs with two guest rooms and a full bath along the main hallway.
    — Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Your upstairs neighbor creaks across the ceiling.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The tiny upstairs space is best for rehashing the day and catching up with friends.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 10 Nov. 2025
  • In an upstairs room, under the eaves, the four boys initially shared two beds.
    — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Bistrot Lepic has a special menu as well as live jazz in its cozy upstairs wine bar.
    — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 14 July 2022
  • Christine was found dead by police in an upstairs bedroom.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Elsewhere in the house is an upstairs bedroom which has a low ceiling and a double bed.
    — New Atlas, 9 Feb. 2026
  • My upstairs neighbor was dragging something across the floor.
    — Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
  • This means the room where the fire is burning stays warm while bedrooms, bathrooms, and upstairs rooms get chilly.
    — Rae Ford, Martha Stewart, 13 Jan. 2026
  • And my bosses would be like, dude, that stain has been on that upstate upstairs toilet for a good two weeks.
    — Outside Online, 30 July 2025
  • Three toddlers and a handful of adults gather in an upstairs meeting room.
    — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2023
  • Two young children, ages 1 and 3, were in an upstairs bedroom and their aunt was in the house as well.
    — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The neighbors can be heard yelling for a ladder as dark gray smoke billowed from an upstairs window.
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Allen Dorsey, Maria’s husband of three months, claimed to have been sick in bed in an upstairs room.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The upstairs unit has a private entrance and is set back from the courtyard by a deck with a keyhole ocean view.
    — Sophy Chaffee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 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 house, wood-frame with a low brick façade in front, bracketed the back-yard pool, with upstairs bedrooms at both ends.
    — T. Coraghessan Boyle, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Agents located a blue tarp and a blue raincoat in an upstairs closet during the search.
    — Fox News, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The two houses are attached at a wall between the staircases and upstairs halls.
    — Benjamin C Tankersley, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Past the upstairs reading nook, her fiancé's gaming room is down the hall from her beauty studio.
    — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Two more en suite bedrooms sit on the main floor, while an upstairs suite with its own entrance gives guests a little breathing room.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Another en suite bedroom completes the first floor, while two more upstairs bedrooms share a bath.
    — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2025
  • This space features a living room, an upstairs level, and then one more set of stairs leading into a kitchen.
    — Melissa Epifano, The Spruce, 11 Mar. 2026
  • In some of the upstairs units, nails protrude from the floorboards, and rainwater falls from holes in the ceiling.
    — Wilfred Chan, Curbed, 8 Dec. 2022
  • As smoke poured from the eaves and windows, firefighters found, in an upstairs bedroom, a teenager.
    — jsonline.com, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Inside, there’s bar and table seating, and an upstairs loft can host a group of up to 12 people.
    — Jess Lander, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2026

upstairs

3 of 3 noun
  • The pair aimed for more of the same upstairs.
    — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2025
  • There’s a bar, stage, and upstairs, Bill’s distillery.
    — David Cook, Southern Living, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Because its site slopes steeply, the house has upstairs and downstairs entrances.
    — Dean Kaufman, Curbed, 30 June 2026
  • And constant headaches coming from upstairs.
    — David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Enjoy fine-dining service downstairs, or grab a seat at the bar upstairs.
    — Chelsea Brasted, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026
  • And then my family kind of eluded to it a little bit after upstairs.
    — Staff Report, Twin Cities, 9 May 2026
  • Whisler’s is an award-winning cocktail bar with four seasonal menus a year, plus an all-mezcal bar upstairs.
    — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Doris and Ann, the family’s longtime upstairs-downstairs maids, were there too.
    — Jennifer Cannon, Vanity Fair, 7 Apr. 2026
  • There’s ample seating downstairs and upstairs.
    — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Apr. 2024
  • That’s when this upstairs-downstairs comedy becomes a whodunit.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Their upstairs is also a masterclass in color and pattern mixing—and serves as the ultimate kid zone.
    — Ella Field, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 June 2026
  • That’s when this upstairs-downstairs comedy becomes a whodunit.
    — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The two-level accommodation includes roomy chairs, a sitting area that doubles as a full bed, and an upstairs with a queen bed.
    — Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 1 May 2026
  • Just like upstairs, all of the elements sang together in perfect harmony.
    — Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The bottom floor features the main bedroom, with an additional two, plus an optional loft upstairs.
    — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The screaming was coming from upstairs, where Deanna Vaughn lived with her father, Richard.
    — Veronica Ortega, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The couple from upstairs are intentionally hard to believe.
    — ABC News, 24 June 2026
  • The house features tongue-and-groove walls, wide-plank wood floors, an open kitchen with stainless appliances, and one bedroom on the first floor and another upstairs.
    — The Week Us, TheWeek, 25 May 2026
  • There’s a definite dichotomy between upstairs and downstairs.
    — Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights, which is in Yorkshire, needed a stable, an upstairs and a kitchen.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Three bedrooms and an upstairs sleeping loft provide plenty of room for families or groups, while a wood-burning fireplace and cedar sauna add welcome comfort after long days spent outdoors.
    — Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 29 May 2026
  • 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
  • Two primary suites include one on the main level and another upstairs, while the lower floor holds a movie theater, gym, massage room, sauna, wine cellar, beauty salon, creative workspace, and vocal booth.
    — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 5 May 2026
  • 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
  • The affair grows less decorous in farcical scenes of upstairs and downstairs life — kitchen staff toiling away on blunts, a trigger-happy shooting party, and cockney pub patrons breaking out in song — and the various side plots.
    — Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The gradually emergent upstairs-downstairs theme was explored with more sophistication on The White Lotus.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2026
  • The hands-down highlight, though, is The Point, a spectacular circular building with a Spanish restaurant downstairs and an infinity pool with a swim-up bar upstairs.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 June 2026
  • Forty-seven guest rooms are spread across courtyards and upstairs; the largest of the lot is the two-level District Suite with vaulted ceilings, a walk-in closet, a separate dining area, and a secondary lofted living room.
    — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Longtime collaborator Alex Lockett returns to direct the clip, an upstairs/downstairs concept which follows Antonoff on struggle street, stumbling into randoms and flapping about in the rain.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 11 Feb. 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

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