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    Use "ladder" in a sentence

    ladder example sentences

    ladder


    1. He followed Herndon down the tiny ladder


    2. As you start moving up the age ladder the tendency is to be at peace and you are looking at more comfortable life rather than risky venture


    3. " He leaned over and let down the ladder for her


    4. A while later, somewhat breathless from manoeuvring the heavy box down the ladder but gratified that I have managed it on my own, I sit on the bed and start going through my history


    5. Under the bare, low-wattage bulb hanging from the ceiling in the outer corridor, I had glimpsed a narrow passage running away from me as I knelt at the foot of the ladder


    6. At first, when the long hours of silence were rudely interrupted by activity out in the corridor, I did not believe in the sounds that came from the world outside of my cell: boots on ladder rungs, a scuff of rubber soles across rough concrete, and finally the sound of a key in a lock


    7. She slammed into him hard and rode him into the bulkhead and pinned him against a ladder


    8. Later that day, later that night, at some point in the expanse of black time, I heard the trap door swing open and then the familiar scrape of boots on the rungs of the ladder


    9. I listened to the scrape of his boots on the rungs of the ladder


    10. I told myself that I had neither the energy nor the will to worry any more I did still feel a slight chill and quickening of the pulse with every tread of a boot on the ladder outside of my cell, but it was different now

    11. With that she was down the ladder and over to Luray, glad she hadn't brought any cloth with her


    12. "Alan, come out and see this," she called to him, and he came down and wrapped around her on the ladder


    13. "What maps we've got are up in Vyinga's nest, actually that box under the ladder


    14. The family shut themselves away behind the barrier of polite poverty, pulling up the rope ladder of social interaction


    15. poverty, pulling up the rope ladder of social interaction


    16. Naturally, she fell off, crashed quite spectacularly … smashed the ladder into the bargain


    17. It had suited Becky to make the move, her company had an office in Bristol and she was able to step up the career ladder by moving there


    18. There was enough light for Ava to see that her knuckles were white when she got to the top of that ladder


    19. She reaches for the high notes but they are kept in a box on top of the wardrobe and she has forgotten to bring her step ladder


    20. ” She was already climbing the ladder

    21. ladder first, then shouted for the first pair to ascend


    22. Handkerchiefs at the ready and resolved against using them the twins steadied themselves on Harry's arms for a moment longer, then escorted him to the boarding ladder


    23. That accomplished, he climbed the ladder and crept up on the roof where he had stacked corrugated metal panels, which so matched the existing roof as to have been perfectly camouflaged laying as they were


    24. He climbed the ladder and asked Harry to begin handing one board at a time up to him


    25. After they were up over George's head with the siding, he fetched the ladder and Harry began levering one end of each plank to within George's reach, and in that way they had soon dried in and insulated the new room


    26. The other man shinned nimbly up the ladder


    27. He dropped the flare pistol and sprinted for the ladder,


    28. but he was quick enough to get to the ladder and the shots arced


    29. swung his legs over to the ladder


    30. He climbed the corporate ladder further and a promotion came following his award winning journalism on the East Timor spying scandal

    31. 'If that is the ladder by which one mounts, I too will try my fortune,' said he, and the next day when it began to grow dark, he went to the tower and cried:


    32. start at a ladder leading up to the scaffold


    33. " She was coming down the ladder as she said that and reaching for her own wrapskirt


    34. ladder than that of the servant life of Christ


    35. The hierarchy of the prison system clicked in and the next rung on the ladder stepped up to lead


    36. So next day my brothers decided a ladder toboggan might be the way so we hunted downstairs near the old kitchen that our father had turned into a work place, along by the passageway near the odds and sods room we called the Cave, in fact it was the place in the olden days they hung the meat


    37. Well we picked a really steep part and placing the ladder on the snow we all clambered on


    38. We never got to toboggan but we did get healthy exercise walking up hills and down dale, and I can vouch how heavy that ladder was, it was the one father used to lean against the tall pear tree to pick the fruit from, his Great Grandfather had planted all those years ago


    39. Unfortunately, at a nearby ladder a line of soldiers had formed, waiting for its use


    40. As if in response, the wall was racked by a massive blow, and to Alec's horror, the ladder, and the soldiers on it, toppled to the ground, screaming

    41. A few of them broke free from the ladder, but those highest up held on while it slammed to the earth, pinning them beneath


    42. "Hey, bring that ladder back up here," one of the younger looking soldiers in front of Alec called down to the troops below


    43. Nowhere did Alec see a ladder nor any type of access to the rooftop


    44. The firelight clearly picked out a group of men crawling along the ground, dragging a ladder behind them


    45. Axel reloaded and walked to the top of the first ladder, kicking it sideways so that it slid off the wall, taking another one with it


    46. Luray was already coming down the ladder that was drawing closer to the dock


    47. People came boiling over the top of the next ladder and Axel shot them as they came, the Webley bucking in his hand like a live animal


    48. “No, what I asked was how come you are here at this precise minute chasing my Harvest Festival poster around my window with a big hammer in your hand balancing on the top of an unstable ladder brandishing a political banner in the other hand, throwing tacks about


    49. ” Fizzicist rolled up the banner and lifting the ladder onto to his shoulders, marched off up the road


    50. A ladder ran up the side to the platform














































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    Synonyms for "ladder"

    ladder ravel run

    "ladder" definitions

    steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs; for climbing up or down


    ascending stages by which somebody or something can progress


    a row of unravelled stitches


    come unraveled or undone as if by snagging