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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
indoors
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
go
▪ He went indoors, nodding at her, but did not smile.
▪ Getting no response, he went indoors with one of the three young men.
▪ And then Otto went indoors to the piano and played a few bars of Debussy to illustrate a musical idea.
▪ They went indoors to find Donald splitting wood to start the fire.
▪ Nobody commented; after brief thanks and farewells, Jack departed and the two friends went indoors.
▪ Dad went indoors and brought out her belongings and placed them as she directed.
▪ I went indoors and to bed.
▪ She waved again as he drove past towards the junction, and went indoors.
keep
▪ They say animals might need to be kept indoors throughout their lives to prevent them picking up tapeworm eggs.
▪ I was kept indoors until the age of seven, and as a result I knew nothing about children my age.
stay
▪ Families living near by were warned to stay indoors because of toxic smoke.
▪ Both cities were bombarded by aerial sprayers; residents were advised to stay indoors at night.
▪ He was too excited to be able to stay indoors.
▪ Residents were advised to stay indoors and avoid outdoor exercise, and children were kept in classrooms during lunch and recess.
▪ As dense black smoke swirled over the town, residents were told to stay indoors.
▪ My mother will make me stay indoors if some one tells her we were shouting that.
▪ On March 10 the authorities issued a warning to people to stay indoors after concentrations of low-level ozone reached record levels.
▪ Remaining on guard, the soldiers advised the black population to stay indoors.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It was too sunny to think of staying indoors.
▪ Let's stay indoors where it's nice and warm.
▪ Some arts and crafts projects are too messy to be done indoors.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indoors

Indoors \In"doors`\, adv. Within the house; -- sometimes separated, in doors.

Wiktionary
indoors

adv. In or into a building.

WordNet
indoors

adv. within a building; "in winter we play inside" [syn: inside] [ant: outside, outside]

Wikipedia
Indoors

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Usage examples of "indoors".

About to go indoors, she noticed a clot of bees around the water dripping from the towels.

Lootavek had said another time, during summer, when swarms of blackflies formed clouds in the sky and even the dogs stayed indoors.

AT present, those two crooks were coming indoors from a stroll around the deck.

Inside city walls, dogged by strings of equerries sent with supply lists, and accosted by pedigree garrison captains who demanded to be billeted indoors, Lord Commander Diegan met harassed city ministers and strove to placate upset tempers.

It was evident the fires would reach them soon, so she scurried back indoors, up to her room.

I dressed and ate slowly, then wandered listlessly downstairs, thinking to walk about a little indoors, and perhaps make a conciliatory visit to Greatheart, before settling down to a long morning of study.

Sophie hobbled after Howl indoors again and up the stairs to the broom cupboard, she realized she was being very gruff.

Miss Fuss-and-Bother was the name Lionheart had given to die governess least patient with the frequent necessity of fishing Beauty out of her latest muddy haven in the garden and bringing her indoors and dumping her in the bath.

So, although the sun was shining beautifully, Longnose stayed indoors, hardly daring to look at himself in the glass.

You get to feel like a soldier while staying indoors, away from lunes roaming the night with teeth bared.

Chances are the house will be the best presented in its immediate surroundings, with cobble lock driveway, new windows, aspirational Doric columns supporting the porch extension, and a new Nissan Micra for her indoors.

Beauty rescued, half open, and brought indoors, where they sal dejectedly in a vase, too weary of the struggle to finish opening, their petals brown-edged and soon falling.

Gini glanced back and saw that the command had been given to Frank Romero, who began to usher these bystanders indoors.

Polio, which had kept my parents quarantined indoors during the summers of their childhood, had been conquered by the Salk vaccine.

Kit roared a warning, and Don and Elda dashed indoors to say the middle of the roof was dipping downward, spreading the tiles like scales on a fir cone.