stairwells in English

noun
1
a shaft in a building in which a staircase is built.
Make sure all your window wells and stairwells have raised lips around their edges to prevent water in the yard from flowing into the well during a downpour.

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1. At the office , they slink into hallways, bathrooms, and stairwells.

2. Well, aside from the stairwells, Storage closets, and hundreds of shops, There's a whole underbelly Beneath our feet

3. These Convectors can be a perfect heating solution in areas such as entry ways, stairwells or any space that needs heat

4. The vapors of most commonly used Accelerants are heavier than air and tend to flow downward into stairwells, cellars, drains, crevices and cracks, etc

5. 14 She lived in a red-brick tenement in Chelsea, an old walk-up building with gloomy stairwells and peeling paint on the walls.

6. Furthermore, soldiers did not often use the streets, roads, alleys, or courtyards that constitute the syntax of the city, as well as the external doors, internal stairwells, and windows that constitute the order of buildings, but rather moved horizontally through party walls, and vertically through holes blasted in ceilings and floors.