basement
Example Sentences
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Before running out the door, she tells Dad the four of us will be sleeping in the basement, which is part laundry room, part guest room, and mostly unfinished storage space.
From Literature
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And I started collecting things and leaving them as presents in their basement: snakes, spiders, grubs, and slugs.
From Literature
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According to the listing, “With lake views and sliders to the flat backyard, it’s the kind of lower level that makes you forget you are in a basement.”
From MarketWatch
Many of the immigrants who have been taken into custody by federal immigration agents are typically held and booked at the downtown L.A. facility’s basement known as B-18.
From Los Angeles Times
The soldiers of the Typhoon unit work in a basement filled with heaps of kit and cables, reached via a handmade wooden staircase.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.