basement

Definition:
1. The lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage.
2. The ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture.

Use 'basement' in a sentence:

• 1. After the shaking, I heard the kitchen door open ( this is how you access the basement from the house) and something come up the stairs towards my bedroom. I was so scared, I couldn't even move.
• 2. Real-time monitoring and analysis of the reaction at building basement.
• 3. The Practice Teaching System and Its Basement Construction of Applied Universities Abroad.
• 4. It can be difficult if the only disabled toilet in the basement is a long way from where the film is showing.
• 5. Scully: are in the basement because they are afraid of you of your relentlessness.
• 6. The Transformation in the Basement of the Urban Policy Study.
• 7. In passing the two big shut doors adjacent to the last ramp I had another weird feeling of certainty and realization22: this was a hospital ( we already know that.) This basement used to be the morgue.
• 8. The NEC's skyscraper and its gadgetry are controlled in the basement.
• 9. It is rather damp in the basement.
• 10. In the basement fifteen employees are busy making bespoke coats.
• 11. He took me into the corridor where the basement door is and showed me a large crack in the wall above the basement door.
• 12. Citizens of East Beirut went to ground in basements and shelters.
• 13. It's dark and damp in the basement.
• 14. Such leaks are often found around doors and windows, but they also can be in your basement or attic.
• 15. If you are in a home without a basement, try to find a first floor bathroom or a small room without windows in the middle of your house.
• 16. The secondary laminae contain basal cells which attach via hemidesmosomes to the basement membrane.
• 17. Building owners were faced with a choice: either change the first floors of their buildings into basements, and the second stories into main floors, or hoist the entire buildings to meet the new street level.
• 18. I worked in the basement of a Caltech campus building that had been periodically haunted by the specter of the upper half of a roofer who had fallen from the six story roof twenty years earlier.
• 19. Additive of New Concrete Used on Water Proof in Basement Frame.
• 20. Many of the machines are gathering dust in basements.
• 21. They bought an old schoolhouse to live in and built a workshop in the basement.
• 22. Honey, what say we spend the weekend beating the rugs, sorting through the boxes in the basement and painting our bedroom a nice lemony yellow?
• 23. They have a hoard of food in the basement.
• 24. My office is a cubbyhole in the basement.
• 25. For decades, many of Malevich's works were consigned to the basements of Soviet museums.
• 26. They live in a basement flat in North London.
• 27. A safe place could be a basement or the lowest floor.
• 28. Wendy's in the basement, trying to fix the washing machine.
• 29. A dampish corner in the basement of which served as our laboratory.
• 30. Pre-Cenozoic basin structure, residual thickness and trichotomous property of basement are all shown by the impact.
• 31. Allen is in the basement trying to repair the washing machine.
• 32. The room was light and lofty compared to the basement.
• 33. This time it was much louder, it sounded like someone was kicking the basement door ( which was locked).
• 34. There is a room in the basement of Miss Fulsom's school where the nurses wait.
• 35. Volodymiyr Shandra, the Ukrainian Emergency Situations minister, told local media that oxygen canisters being stored in the basement of the building could have triggered the blasts.
• 36. Wayne found the book in his father's basement and then offered to send it back to the school.
• 37. Structure Design and Engineering Application of Civil Air Defense Basement.
• 38. He stationed me in the basement.
• 39. The curator entered the darkest part of the basement to search for the dagger.
• 40. Then some guy started screaming bloody8 murder down the hall from us in the basement.
• 41. Application of comprehensive waterproof construction technology in concrete structure basement.
• 42. Dad comes up from the basement in his gimpy comic trot, concerned, takes a bullet in the chest, drops to his knees, takes one in the head, and that's that.
• 43. A woman kept prisoner in a basement was rescued after suspicious neighbours tipped off police.
• 44. Downstairs in the windowless basement, where the real work is done, it is sleazy and sweaty.
• 45. On the stairway to the basement, he took the light bulb out of the socket.
• 46. She fled with her children, moving from neighbour to neighbour and ending up in a friend's basement.
• 47. The pump sucked water from the basement.
• 48. Museum basements are stacked full of objects which never see the light of day.
• 49. She practised the piano in the primary school basement.
• 50. With your plan and permit in hand, clear everything out of the basement and you're ready to go.
• 51. Kitchen goods are sold in the basement.
• 52. They ran a cable from their machine through a crawl space between the basement and the stage.
• 53. Dormitories of boarding schools should not be located in the basement, the protocols read, adding that there should be no more than six students allocated to each dorm room.
• 54. We have copies of old newspapers in the basement, and all the major papers publish reference guides to their articles, reviews, etc.
• 55. The basement hallway is painted a warm yellow.
• 56. Through the basement window I saw him strap on his pink cycling helmet.
• 57. Craig had been whiling away his spare time in our basement.
• 58. Andrea, Rick and Zack stayed in the basement department, sharing laundry and single bathroom with Michal, his wife and their two children.