How To Use Ground-floor In A Sentence
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The structure is divided into three parts: the ground-floor and first-floor accommodate a show room and office space.
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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.
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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
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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
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ATLANTA — Margaret Mitchell called her tiny ground-floor apartment here on Peachtree Street in midtown "the dump.
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The blast caused extensive damage, shattering the ground-floor windows.
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The steep lanes were of dirt and rock; farm animals lodged in the ground-floor byres.
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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
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Some ground-floor rooms are just a few steps from the water's edge and have French doors.
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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.
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The walls of the ground-floor sitting room are no less extravagant in their decoration.
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The ground-floor windows are obscured by wire mesh.
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I waited, sitting as quietly and unobtrusively as possible on the low backless benches in front of the ground-floor lobby windows.
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The result is a two-storey house with ground-floor rooms opening from one to the other.
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Over the window of the ground-floor flat is a large metal grille.
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Lightning flickered in the ragged aperture where the ground-floor staircase door had been.
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Although the house presents a somewhat fortified appearance to the street, with a wall of opaque glass blocks rather than ground-floor windows, inside it is flooded with daylight.
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Nigel took charge of the cigarette while Pru used the ground-floor extension of the internal telephone system.
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The couple with that crosspatch cat, Bathsheba, had bars on all the ground-floor and basement windows, and no fewer than three separate locks on their front door.
Portobello
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Lights burned in a ground-floor room that would, in daylight, offer a spectacular seaside view.
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The roof terrace and the smart ground-floor sitting room would suit households that like to entertain.
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Because we're on the almost-ground-floor of an apartment in NYC, so the huge almost-graceful iron bars came with the apt. overlooking the park, and we thought we didnt 'mind them, but when the building had all the windows replaced & the grilles were off for several weeks we realized that we felt much less depressed every time we looked out the window so we petitioned to have the removal permanent.
The Post That Got Away
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Nigel took charge of the cigarette while Pru used the ground-floor extension of the internal telephone system.
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The ground-floor windows are carefully placed so they look obliquely at the neighbours' back gardens or between the windows of the opposite homes.
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His ground-floor windows are obscured with opaque glass and his back garden sacrificed for a larger kitchen.
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His ground-floor unit allowed him to run in place without the fear of disturbing a neighbor.
WITHOUT REMORSE
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The walls of the ground-floor sitting room are no less extravagant in their decoration.
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The brick, gambrel-roof barn features ground-floor pens for calves and plenty of space for hay storage in the mow.
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I met him in the small, relaxed, carpeted upper dining room, as opposed to the larger, more boisterous, uncarpeted ground-floor one.
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The graffito ashlaring was last restored during the general reconstruction in 1992 together with the renovation of the two original vaulted halls on the ground-floor.
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Just beside me a ground-floor window opened and a young woman looked out.
IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
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the ground-floor entrance is kept locked
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Instead of acquiring or commissioning full-size marble sculptures, he concentrated on a 'miniature' sculpture gallery of renaissance bronzes in his ground-floor library.
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Philip, to her surprise, offered to come with her, and she was too glad to see him exert himself, to regret the musings she had hoped for; so out they went, after opening the window to give Charles what he called an airing, and he said, that in addition he should 'hirple about a little to explore the ground-floor of the house.'
The Heir of Redclyffe
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A window to the ground-floor villa was also found open, the lawyers added.
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I want to buy a nearby ground-floor apartment with a buy-to-let mortgage to rent out.
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Others escaped through the ground-floor window.
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The roof terrace was on top of the ground-floor flat 's kitchen.
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Over the window of the ground-floor flat is a large metal grille.
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The ground-floor communal area is a warren of small rooms, each with its own atmosphere.
The Sun
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Ask for a table in the ground-floor polished oak panelled bar with its open fireplace and parquet floor.
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Matifat was in the ground-floor box exactly opposite with a friend of his, a silk-mercer named Camusot
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
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For example, “At first, acrophobic Mary thinks her life is perfect — great hair, great job, ground-floor apartment on the Nebraska plains.”
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The ground-floor open area is casual and spacious - ideal for families - with its static umbrellas and fixed seating.
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I waited, sitting as quietly and unobtrusively as possible on the low backless benches in front of the ground-floor lobby windows.
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A specially-designed extension will be built off-site and then craned into place on top of the existing ground-floor catering department.
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The ground-floor communal area is a warren of small rooms, each with its own atmosphere.
The Sun
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The blast caused extensive damage, shattering the ground-floor windows.
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The girls, aged three and four, were suffocated by fumes from the fire which started in the ground-floor flat of the three storey Victorian house in Osterley Road.
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The ground-floor communal area is a warren of small rooms, each with its own atmosphere.
The Sun
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This was a ground-floor room which bulged out on the side of the house looking towards the big lawn and the stables.
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Guests ran for safety as the device went off in a ground-floor men's toilet.
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Generally, the ground-floor windows are small and the house has little connection to its rear garden.
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In March 1605 the group took out a lease on a ground-floor cellar close by the house they had rented from John Whynniard.
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A somewhat shrill and scraping-voiced matron inquired my pleasure when she followed me into the ground-floor entrance from somewhere without, and then, understanding, called hor young daughter, who led me up to the room where Keats mused his last verse and breathed his last sigh.
Roman Holidays, and Others
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The bathrooms in the two ground-floor bedrooms are ingeniously contrived.
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Above the ground-floor windows a stretch of sailcloth fell away from the façade.
THE MAIN CAGES
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Over the window of the ground-floor flat is a large metal grille.
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The walls of the ground-floor sitting room are no less extravagant in their decoration.
Times, Sunday Times
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And cops went round telling residents to keep their doors and ground-floor windows closed.
The Sun
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We are buying a ground-floor maisonette.
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These may include creating maisonettes with ground-floor bedrooms and living rooms above, where they will receive more light.
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The space has a loungey loft area upstairs filled with casual readers and chatters, plus an open ground-floor cafe with tables and chairs for the laptop crowd.
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Though slightly ad hoc, the bunting is at least cheerful, and appears to be strung between ground-floor window-frames.
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Two ground-floor twin room share a bathroom, and the master bedroom is en suite.
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Guests have the use of the spacious ground-floor living room with direct access to the large south-facing terrace.
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Our ground-floor apartment had two bedrooms linked with a corridor and a bathroom.
The Sun
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Before shops had invaded its ground-floor, and advertisements had defaced the exquisite line of carvings just above, the Rez de chaussée had seven low arcades whose pilasters and windows were carved with medallions, candelabra, and "grotesques" in low relief.
The Story of Rouen
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Current plans call for the ground-floor spaces to be leased to commercial tenants - possibly galleries, if the Chelsea art district in fact continues its northward push.
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A man was also seriously injured and was seen leaping out of a ground-floor window.
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I live in a ground-floor flat in south London with my girlfriend.
The Sun
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He also will begin work on the unit he plans to occupy and on ground-floor spaces.
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On approaching the palace from the Pont Royal, you take in at a glance all the various strata of inhabitants; the garreteer in the roof; the retainer in the entre-sol; the courtiers at the casements of the royal apartments; while on the ground-floor a steam of savory odors and a score or two of cooks, in white caps, bobbing their heads about the windows, betray that scientific and all-important laboratory, the Royal Kitchen.
The Crayon Papers
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QI own a ground-floor flat in a large converted house.
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Two ground-floor bedrooms have been designed to accommodate disabled guests.
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The brasserie restaurant, the Swan, is increasingly well-regarded and the ground-floor bar menu includes a limited number of affordable appetising dishes, such as Cotswold Legbar poached eggs on toast and a daily savoury tart with chips and salad (£5-£7), as well snacks like scotch eggs and sausages cooked in rioja (£4-£5).
South London's top 10 budget eats
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The all-white ground-floor photo studio doubles as a living-dining room, and opens up to the forecourt and backyard through clear glass.
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If this were to go ahead, the second storey would significantly block natural light into my ground-floor flat and potentially reduce the value of my property.
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Guests ran for safety as the device went off in a ground-floor men's toilet.
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Two ground-floor bedrooms have been designed to accommodate disabled guests.
