How to Use basement in a Sentence

basement

noun
  • Reaves said her husband helped dig them out of the basement.
    Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Place them in an area such as a unheated basement or garage.
    Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Clean out your basement and donate to the second-hand store.
    Tracy Brower, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The oversized three-car garage is gas-heated and provides access to the large basement.
    Karen A. Avitabile, Hartford Courant, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Move your desk into the basement, and then add an area rug, coffee table and a set of armchairs to craft a small seating area.
    Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The party would end for someone else, too, a terrible secret that same basement harbored for more than three decades.
    Sarah Weinman, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Police returned fire, striking the tenant, and she was later found dead in the apartment building’s basement.
    Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 15 Dec. 2022
  • One floor down from the lobby, there is a basement with a series of tunnels, which now hosts offices for the hotel sales department and the parking lot.
    Rachel King, Fortune, 24 Dec. 2022
  • The basement will be part of the infrastructure to operate the facility and may include a wine cellar.
    Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The town was unable to provide complete plans, particularly related to the office and the basement.
    Blacki Migliozzi, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Ceramic barrels should be brought indoors, while plastic, wooden, and metal barrels can be stored outdoors or in your garage, basement, or potting shed.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Firefighters worked to save hundreds of fish in the hotel’s basement, and a handful of coral reef fish at the base of the AquaDom continued to live in a pool of water left behind.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 16 Dec. 2022
  • In the war's first months, when fighting was close to Kyiv, the center moved its work to the basement of its building, and sent some doctors and equipment to Lviv in western Ukraine.
    David L. Stern, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2022
  • It was put in the ground around the house and in the basement.
    Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 20 May 2024
  • The cat’s food dish is in the basement, kept separate from the dog’s dish in the kitchen.
    Judith Martin, oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2023
  • There’s a scene where Marge floats over to the basement door to get to Maggie.
    Ramin Zahed, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The basement has a bathroom, a bedroom, and a den in it.
    Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2024
  • And what’s the deal with Taissa’s out-of-body episodes and creepy altar in the basement?
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Dre bangs on the basement door and then stands there like a zombie.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Things get tougher from here on out, but for now, Clark Lea and the Commodores are out of the basement.
    Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The fire traveled from the basement of 30 Worcester sq.
    BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2023
  • At one point, the basement flooded because of a burst pipe.
    Talis Shelbourne, Journal Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2023
  • For gaming and a movie night, head down to the 2,775-square-foot finished basement.
    Erin Hayes Burt, Dallas News, 5 May 2023
  • As for the basement, the team added a rock-climbing wall, a reading nook, and a jungle gym for the kids.
    Marni Elyse Katz, House Beautiful, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The harshest abuse came in moments of capture, rather than in the basement.
    Alex Horton, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The laundry machines are in the basement, which is a common area.
    Jill Terreri Ramos, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2023
  • If there's no basement, go to a small room on the lowest level of the building.
    Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 25 Mar. 2023
  • During filming, Glazer and the crew hid in the basement.
    Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Out of the basement, the beeps and honks of the synth danced around one another, just as the voices did in Paris some 900 years ago.
    Jason Farago, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
  • In some homes, the outside faucet has a separate shut-off in the basement.
    oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2023

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