How to Use root cellar in a Sentence

root cellar

noun

• Still, when the full moon lights up your root cellar, what’s a Gem to do but play a few old tapes?
  — SFChronicle.com, 8 Mar. 2020
• The mural leads down into the root cellar of the historic site.
  — Benjamin Wells, Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2022
• Found in the root cellar of a fur trader’s house, the lock appears to have been attached to a small chest or trunk.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 26 June 2017
• The milk cellar was similar to a root cellar and was used to keep milk products cool.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• My grandma and her sister hid from bombs in a neighbor’s root cellar as young girls.
  — Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2022
• Her remains were found in one of three root cellars on the property at Route 1, Box 114 B, Marbury.
  — al, 13 Feb. 2020
• All that remains of the camp are some log foundations and a root cellar, which has been turned into a rough bunk house dubbed the Hillbilly Hilton.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2022
• The root cause can be found all over the root cellar: the dust in Amish homes contained more bacterial molecules than did the Hutterites'.
  — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
• Potatoes and turnips from the root cellar sold out, as did fettuccine and sourdough bread crafted from organic grains grown and milled on the farm.
  — Jennifer Oldham Washington Post, Star Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
• The Rasmussens have treated the Cold War-era shelter as their son’s onetime drum studio and a sometime vegetable root cellar.
  — Erin Grace, The Seattle Times, 27 Jan. 2018
• Growing up near Midway, her home had a root cellar and gardens were plentiful.
  — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2023
• Some of the soups will be made from this winter's root cellar produce, featuring pumpkin and garden vegetable soup.
  — Courant Community, 9 Jan. 2018
• Almost all of its residents had fled; the few who remained were living out of their root cellars, coming up to ground level only to scavenge for food.
  — David Kortava, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2023
• Mighty Mars in your root cellar is a potent charge to take action in the family togetherness department.
  — Minerva, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2017
• The restoration project, completed in 2018, included the wash house, root cellar, curing shed, and other workspaces that supported daily life on the farmstead on Kearney Street.
  — Dallas News, 22 Sep. 2021
• People forget that, not so long ago, survival often depended on working tirelessly all year to fill root cellars so a family could last through a long, cold winter – and still many died.
  — Stephanie Preston, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2020
• But some hikes also feature unusual treats: a boulder shaped like an elephant's head, the fuselage of a small airplane, an old root cellar converted into a resting place for hikers.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2022
• And, anyway, wasn’t the predominant issue in the last election the allegedly careless handling of classified material on a private email server down in the root cellars of Chappaqua?
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 9 Feb. 2018
• Creamy new-crop potatoes deserve a little appreciation before they’re sent off to root cellars, and Mr. Hardy built a fine appetizer around them with leggy broccoli sprouts and melting chunks of fresh mozzarella spiked with anchovy.
  — New York Times, 19 June 2018
• Basement: Items that would be used in a root cellar for winter storage of root vegetables, canning supplies, butchering tools, smokehouse tools, winter bedding material/tools/cages for farm animals and farming tools.
  — cleveland, 29 Feb. 2020
• In a peaceful time, a typical Ukrainian root cellar is an underground structure that’s used as an alternative to a refrigerator for storing crops, preserves and ferments.
  — Anna Voloshyna, Washington Post, 17 June 2022
• Uses for an outdoor root cellar are still under consideration.
  — Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2022
• Previous projects have included work to build greenhouses, canning stations, root cellars, drip irrigation and garden fencing.
  — Kimberly Albrecht, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Visitors can discover 600 million-year-old fossils, spectacular rock formations, traditional root cellar farming, and learn about geopark conservation and history.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 11 Sep 2024