How to Use basement in a Sentence

basement

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  • What would have happened if a girl was chained in the basement and ran out of there?
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The fire had reached the basement and both the first and second floors, Adams said.
    — Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 19 Oct. 2022
  • In late summer or early fall, let the plant go dormant and place in the garage or basement.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The house looks very different from the side, where the basement level and its two-car garage is visible.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 10 Jan. 2025
  • As explosions blew out the building’s windows and doors, the children fled to the basement.
    — Emma Bubola, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2022
  • At home, Paul’s wife, Jean, would take his dirty uniforms into the basement, shake them out and launder them.
    — Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 27 Oct. 2022
  • And there was a bar in the basement, a brilliant bar with a fantastically grumpy bar lady called Eileen.
    — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 3 Jan. 2025
  • According to legend, a female spirit haunts the hallways and the basement of the building.
    — The Courier-Journal, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Never use a generator inside your home, basement or garage or less than 20 feet from any window, door or vent.
    — Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The basement level, which includes seven-foot ceilings, tile floors, and a half bath, could be used as a playroom or a media den, per the listing.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The Experience also brings the Hawkins Lab to life as a dark, sparse basement with flickering lights and stains on the walls.
    — Bryce Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The first scene in which Anthony's alerted to the presence of something beyond the pale in the old neighborhood takes place in his basement greenhouse.
    — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Ukrainian production particular is decentralized; it is said that drones are made in every basement in Kyiv.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Sam also decides to chain himself in the basement, but Weisberg and Fields refuse to say whether Alan's therapy really did break through to Sam in the end.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 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
  • Oysters and beer in the basement, cheeses on the windowsill.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • Reaves said her husband helped dig them out of the basement.
    — Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • 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

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