2 examples of ladderlike in sentences

In basements they could see through half-open doors at the bottom of ladderlike steps, earnest-faced men, with long, well-tended queues of hair, busily tonsuring sleepy clients.

On willing feet of haste, Mrs. Kantor wound down backward the high, ladderlike staircase that led to the brass shop.

2 examples of  ladderlike  in sentences