How to Use basement in a Sentence

basement

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  • And what’s the deal with Taissa’s out-of-body episodes and creepy altar in the basement?
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Corners in your office, basement, porch, or even a hallway could also work.
    — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Firefighters then found a fire in the basement and extinguished the flames quickly.
    — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Known for their long, spindly legs, cellar spiders often create messy, cobweb-style webs in basements or crawlspaces.
    — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
  • That's the case across the spectrum, from landscaping in the yard and woodworking in your basement to cooking in your kitchen.
    — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The heroic rescue of an Ohio woman from the basement of a home fully engulfed in flames was caught on body camera video.
    — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The emails, some of them paragraphs long, proved their son had lived anything but an isolated and unfulfilled life in his basement bedroom.
    — Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The house consisted of one story and a basement, according to the department.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Piringer said an initial investigation found that the fire started in an electrical panel in the basement.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Valencia saw its heaviest rainfall in 28 years with people caught off guard and trapped in basements and lower floors of buildings.
    — Sophie Tanno, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Officials advise people in the regions take cover and move to the basement or interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Built in 1963, the archives are located in a leaky and humid basement unfit for modern storage standards, the museum has said.
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 28 Jan. 2023
  • There is a romantic notion that a book is the product of a single author’s obsessive work, perhaps locked away somewhere — a garret or a basement — sweating the details down to the last comma.
    — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2023
  • My current storage conditions consist of two large wine racks for everyday wines in a (perpetually cool) basement and a large wine refrigerator for the fancier stuff.
    — Lettie Teague, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Since his days living in her Canadian basement while starring on Degrassi, Drake and his mom have had a special bond and have frequently opened up about their connection.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 29 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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 | [email protected], 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

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