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Example sentences for "went downstairs"

  • I think the other men went home, and I went downstairs.

  • But he went downstairs, and as he went out the front, it seems as though he did have a coke with him, or he stopped at the coke machine, or somebody else was trying to get a coke, but there was a coke involved.

  • Then I went downstairs, fetched up the broach and the ten sovereigns, and gave them to her.

  • I went downstairs first, and she followed me.

  • I went downstairs, and found the concierge watching for me, combing one of her cats the while.

  • But, you see, I thought I'd made a mess of it, but as I went downstairs a brilliant idea struck me: why should we trouble?

  • It is noteworthy that as he went downstairs he still imagined that his case was perhaps not utterly lost, and that, so far as the ladies were concerned, all might "very well indeed" be set right again.

  • And as he went downstairs now, he considered himself most undeservedly injured and unrecognised.

  • He went downstairs to the kitchen, took the bottle of brandy from the sideboard and carried it upstairs.

  • Caravan had to stoop in the doorway, and trembled as he went downstairs, while his wife walked backwards, so as to light him, and held the candlestick in one hand, carrying the clock under the other arm.

  • But, as his wife was calling him, he went downstairs.

  • He rose, bewildered, pale, and full of an indescribable happiness; and then he went downstairs, and out into the open air.

  • This was what Mr. Penrose was thinking of as he went downstairs.

  • He had to support himself by the rail as he went downstairs.

  • He went downstairs softly as the dawn brightened, and all the dim staircase and closed doors grew visible, revealed by the silent growth of the early light.

  • I went downstairs at last; and on the first floor I met Madame Bertin and her two daughters, going to mass.

  • As I went downstairs, I found myself beside PĂ©lagie; I could not do otherwise than offer her my hand.

  • We went downstairs; but on the second landing, he failed to find his opera in his pocket, and went back for that.

  • I went downstairs in an ill humor, because I was annoyed; nothing annoys one more than a postponed pleasure.

  • Besides, he could do it as he went downstairs.

  • And the nurse, a well-defined and explicit person, went downstairs as Judith passed on along the lobby.

  • I was curious to see the cousin who was said to be prettier than the sisters, and as soon as the banker had gone I went downstairs to satisfy my curiosity.

  • The father came in, and we went downstairs.

  • Not wanting to live in hermit fashion, I went downstairs to dine at the public table, and I found a score of people sitting down to such a choice repast that I could not conceive how it could be done for forty sous a head.

  • At last the curtain fell, and we went downstairs.

  • Thereupon he went downstairs, and I, comparing my hastiness to his calm, acknowledged the man worthy of teaching me some lessons.

  • We were just getting out of the little channels and islands and making for the open sea when I went downstairs.

  • I went downstairs to breakfast, which I don't generally do; I keep to my old habit of a cup of tea in my room.

  • The Duchess and I went downstairs, walked through various galleries, and stopped at a door where there was no servant.

  • I went downstairs about 12 and found the ladies in the drawing-room all complaining of the cold.

  • They whispered together a minute, then he went downstairs to get breakfast.

  • They talked a little while, then he went downstairs.

  • He went downstairs in his shirt and then struggled into his pit-trousers, which were left on the hearth to warm all night.

  • When we went downstairs it was to find our attentive landlord with a comforting meal of chocolate and hot buttered rolls ready to serve.

  • When, about three o'clock, we went downstairs, the large hall was brilliantly lit, and men muffled in big cloaks and scarves were gulping glasses of hot coffee before leaving the shelter of a roof.

  • The doctor, after tasting the cool stuff, and expressing a qualified approval of it, hurried away: his boots creaking in a very important and wealthy manner as he went downstairs.

  • Hastily taking leave of Lady Brabazon, who chided him playfully for running away so early, and engaged him to call upon her on the following morning, he went downstairs accompanied by Trussell.

  • When he went downstairs, the smells from the kitchen were something overwhelming in their rich pervasiveness.

  • When he went downstairs again, he found Amelia at the open door.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "went downstairs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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