STOREY in a Sentence

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For STOREY, below is one of 16 sentences:
And the door at the end of the gallery opened, and Mr. Rochester advanced with a candle: he had just descended from the upper storey.

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 Meanings and Examples of STOREY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
storey
 n.  story
Classic Sentence:
1  All these relics gave to the third storey of Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine of memory.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
2  I must pay a visit to the second storey.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
3  It came out of the third storey; for it passed overhead.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
4  And the door at the end of the gallery opened, and Mr. Rochester advanced with a candle: he had just descended from the upper storey.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
5  He glided up the gallery and up the stairs, and stopped in the dark, low corridor of the fateful third storey: I had followed and stood at his side.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
6  It appeared to me, on looking over the tradesmen's books, as if we might have kept the basement storey paved with butter, such was the extensive scale of our consumption of that article.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING
7  Number two in the Court was soon reached; and an inscription on the door-post informing me that Mr. Traddles occupied a set of chambers on the top storey, I ascended the staircase.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 59. RETURN
8  This Anton Antonitch lived on the fourth storey in a house in Five Corners, in four low-pitched rooms, one smaller than the other, of a particularly frugal and sallow appearance.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: II
9  Climbing up to his fourth storey I was thinking that the man disliked me and that it was a mistake to go and see him.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: II
10  Our white frame house, with a storey and half-storey above the basement, stood at the east end of what I might call the farmyard, with the windmill close by the kitchen door.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
11  I was now in a wing of the castle further to the right than the rooms I knew and a storey lower down.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
Example Sentence:
1  Collectors Treasury is housed in an eight storey building in downtown Johannesburg South Africa.
2  There's a nine - storey apartment building next to the bank.
3  The apartment house where John lives is five stories high and he lives in one of the upper storeys.
4  Their new house has four storeys including the attic.
5  Ponte City, a cylindrical brutalist skyscraper stretching 54 storeys, was built for yuppies who had flocked to the city, often from Europe.