Get to know Escalator better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like article or clause.
Escalator meaning
- Anything that escalates.
- A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another.
- An upward or progressive course.
Synonyms of Escalator
Using Escalator
- The main meaning on this page is: Anything that escalates. | A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another. | An upward or progressive course.
- Useful related words include: escalator clause, article, clause, moving staircase.
- In the example corpus, escalator often appears in combinations such as: the escalator, an escalator, escalator in.
Context around Escalator
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Escalator
- In this selection, "escalator" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, key, gold, step, blocked, reversed and repair stand out and add context to how "escalator" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include on the escalator and a stationary escalator only to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "escalator" sits close to words such as abducting, accentuate and accomplishes, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with escalator
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Haymarket Metro station is currently closed to allow for escalator repair work. (12 words)
Key escalator blocked off by employee led to crowd at other escalator, but seems departing soon. (16 words)
The Lucky Porker trinket is located in a small room at the bottom of the escalator. (16 words)
Now, Quinn calls Lightfoot a disappointment, saying she broke the “solemn promise” on mayoral term limits and persuaded the City Council to approve an automatic escalator locking in annual property tax increases to match the rate of inflation. (38 words)
The episode is so fantastic because it incorporates several Valentine's Day celebrations that viewers may recognize themselves in the characters, particularly Claire and Phil with their role-playing and an escalator subplot to liven things up. (37 words)
Houser vividly remembers riding the escalator to her office one morning “and in my head I kept saying, ‘I’m in trouble, I’m in trouble,'” although she didn’t know what was wrong. (34 words)
Does he think his charm offensive will sway CNN viewers who have been fed a constant diet of Trump Derangement Syndrome from the moment the former president came down the gold escalator? (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
He just came straight to me from the escalator like I watched him come up the escalator and make a bee line straight to me," he added.
Key escalator blocked off by employee led to crowd at other escalator, but seems departing soon.
And yet, almost eight years later, without an escalator in sight, in some fashion he's still on that border.
Does he think his charm offensive will sway CNN viewers who have been fed a constant diet of Trump Derangement Syndrome from the moment the former president came down the gold escalator?
Fourteen people were injured on Thursday after an escalator reversed at a subway station in South Korea, police said.
Haymarket Metro station is currently closed to allow for escalator repair work.
Houser vividly remembers riding the escalator to her office one morning “and in my head I kept saying, ‘I’m in trouble, I’m in trouble,'” although she didn’t know what was wrong.
Instead of an "in then out" set of doorways, it becomes an "in then up, dragging a crony onto the now-empty lower step" escalator.
It is not yet known when the fault on the escalator will be repaired and passengers will be able to board trains at Haymarket Station.
Now, Quinn calls Lightfoot a disappointment, saying she broke the “solemn promise” on mayoral term limits and persuaded the City Council to approve an automatic escalator locking in annual property tax increases to match the rate of inflation.
The episode is so fantastic because it incorporates several Valentine's Day celebrations that viewers may recognize themselves in the characters, particularly Claire and Phil with their role-playing and an escalator subplot to liven things up.
The Lucky Porker trinket is located in a small room at the bottom of the escalator.
The two, who are both Gozitan residents from Rabat, were on the escalator at an establishment in Triq ir-Republika in Rabat when the incident happened at around 10.45am.
Thomas Fiscoe, a 36-year-old Brooklynite, said he was on the escalator when it broke down.
We have seen five consecutive hikes since the escalator clause was implemented in 2017, which allowed Canada to surpass Japan with the highest tax rate on alcohol in the industrialized world.
A clip from July 2022 shows a woman walking up a stationary escalator only to reach the top and find a black Croc nearly half eaten by the machine.
Footage inside Bondi Junction Westfield of a man fending off the stabber with a bollard on the escalator.
Footage posted to X, formerly Twitter, shows a man pointing a security pole at the attacker standing beneath him on the escalator.
He announced his candidacy for the presidency in 2015 after descending from an escalator in the lobby of his Manhattan headquarters.
If we see a mountain in front of us, we don’t expect there to be an escalator waiting to take us to the top.
Common combinations with escalator
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the escalator 22×
- an escalator 18×
- escalator in 7×
- escalator at 6×
- escalator and 4×
- escalator or 3×
- stationary escalator 2×
- golden escalator 2×
- escalator into 2×
- escalator where 2×