basement Example Sentence:

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.

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Prev: 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.

Next: 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.