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.
