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How To Use ground-floor In A Sentence

• The structure is divided into three parts: the ground-floor and first-floor accommodate a show room and office space.
• They did not give balls, and Antonia never appeared at a ground-floor window, as some other young ladies used to do attended by elder women, to chat with the caballeros on horseback in the Calle.
• The front door opened onto a large hallway which ran all the way through the rest of the house to the back door; its lime-bleached walls enhanced the reddish patina of the ground-floor windows, as well as the studwork and the polished wood of the doorways. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
• He was ushered by Benoit, the elderly body-servant, rather grandiloquently called the seneschal, into the ground-floor room known traditionally as the library. Scaramouche
• ATLANTA — Margaret Mitchell called her tiny ground-floor apartment here on Peachtree Street in midtown "the dump.
• The blast caused extensive damage, shattering the ground-floor windows.
• The steep lanes were of dirt and rock; farm animals lodged in the ground-floor byres.
• The most important specimens of Lumachella marbles are the pair of very fine large columns of L. rosea on the ground-floor of the Schiarra Palace, the balustrade of the high altar of St. Andrea della Valle, two columns in the garden of the Corsini Palace of L. d 'Astracane, and a pair of large pillars which support one of the arches of the Vatican Library, formed of L. occhio di pavone. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
• Some ground-floor rooms are just a few steps from the water's edge and have French doors.
• The south facade is a curiously flat and blocky affair, only partly leavened by the awkward, two-bay, single-column upper arcade, the unsatisfactorily cinched lower entablature, the four eccentric little ground-floor windows, and the raised platform supporting it all. Archive 2009-03-01