basement

Example Sentences

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Each Sunday afternoon, after a Spanish-language service, lawyers, translators and parishioners gather in the basement foyer to help families navigate the immigration system.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

We visit their control room in the basement of a building.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

It turns out, there are a couple of basement levels here that were designed into the ballroom— they weren’t initially disclosed—that have to do with national security.

From Slate • May 7, 2026

The bicycles caught the eye of project director Giovanna Araujo as she was scoping out the basement for sites to bore holes for geotechnical testing.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Seidel’s newest tunnel started in the basement of a café in West Berlin and led to the cellar of an apartment house in the East.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin