root cellar
Example Sentences
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The hub was a Black and Indigenous settlement called Hangroot, named for the root cellars where owners hung winter vegetables to keep animals from eating them.
From New York Times
Potatoes and turnips from the root cellar sold out, as did fettuccine and sourdough bread crafted from organic grains grown and milled on the farm.
From Seattle Times
The root cause can be found all over the root cellar: the dust in Amish homes contained more bacterial molecules than did the Hutterites'.
From Scientific American
Taking full inventory of their root cellar last year took a month of work.
From Reuters
To tighten our belts and weep with gratitude as we share the last moldy potato from the root cellar.
From Los Angeles Times
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