How to Use basement in a Sentence

basement

noun
  • It was put in the ground around the house and in the basement.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 20 May 2024
  • In the back room of the basement, the walls are slime green.
    — James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • In the back room of the basement, the walls are slime green.
    — James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • In the basement, walls were knocked down to open up the space.
    — Libertina Brandt, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The fire had reached the basement and both the first and second floors, Adams said.
    — Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The cat’s food dish is in the basement, kept separate from the dog’s dish in the kitchen.
    — Judith Martin, oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2023
  • There’s a scene where Marge floats over to the basement door to get to Maggie.
    — Ramin Zahed, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • But Michael wanted to shoot deep down, in the 'basement' of Tokyo.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The basement has a bathroom, a bedroom, and a den in it.
    — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2024
  • Oysters and beer in the basement, cheeses on the windowsill.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2022
  • And what’s the deal with Taissa’s out-of-body episodes and creepy altar in the basement?
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2023
  • What would have happened if a girl was chained in the basement and ran out of there?
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Dre bangs on the basement door and then stands there like a zombie.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Things get tougher from here on out, but for now, Clark Lea and the Commodores are out of the basement.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 4 Sep. 2023
  • From the basement’s inner depths came the echo of a newborn’s wail.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Keep it in the basement (or any other cool, dark area of your house).
    — Madison Alcedo, Woman's Day, 7 June 2022
  • At a spot called the wedding station, the chassis comes up from the basement and is screwed to the body.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
  • Every time the siren wailed, Yevheniya wrapped her son in a blanket and ran to the basement.
    — Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Reaves said her husband helped dig them out of the basement.
    — Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The fire traveled from the basement of 30 Worcester sq.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The audio tour first brings you through two floors of rooms and ends in the basement galleries.
    — Ben Davidson, Mercury News, 28 Apr. 2025
  • At one point, the basement flooded because of a burst pipe.
    — Talis Shelbourne, Journal Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2023
  • For gaming and a movie night, head down to the 2,775-square-foot finished basement.
    — Erin Hayes Burt, Dallas News, 5 May 2023
  • Then the team continued up the street, to the yellow house, and carried out the teen-ager from the basement.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2022
  • My ‘office’ was in the basement of a theater, in front of a toilet.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 8 Sep. 2022
  • As for the basement, the team added a rock-climbing wall, a reading nook, and a jungle gym for the kids.
    — Marni Elyse Katz, House Beautiful, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Ouellette was born in the basement of the house in 1947, two years after his parents built the home.
    — Christine MacDonald, Detroit Free Press, 21 May 2022
  • The harshest abuse came in moments of capture, rather than in the basement.
    — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023
  • At the opposite end of the Thimphu drinking spectrum is the Tipsy Cow, located in a basement on the main street.
    — Joe Yogerst, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • But that record operated with textures best found in dark basements and sweaty alleyways; this one is brighter, crafted from a mood board of mid-2000s club hits and John Waters movies.
    — Reanna Cruz, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025

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