subbasement
noun
sub·base·ment
ˌsəb-ˈbās-mənt 
variants
or sub-basement
plural subbasements or sub-basements
Examples of subbasement in a Sentence
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Both women wind up in the aforementioned subbasement, which — remember — Nora doesn’t know is a Very Bad Place to Be.
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Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 11 May 2025
The building was used to bottle and distribute milk to retail locations by train — the train tracks are still located in the subbasement of the building.
—Caroline Linton, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2024
Reading them has become our favorite — and often only — form of recreation here under the flickering fluorescent lights in the subbasement mailroom at the Department of Data.
—Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
For one thing, the hotel’s reputation had plummeted into its subbasement, with mocking public complaints about peeling wallpaper, worn furniture and bedbugs.
—Dan Barry, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
Halley Zelicoff, a food stylist, has been to 30 of Mr. Trinidad’s dinners, including the first, which was held in a subbasement of a warehouse.
—Robert Simonson, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2022
My second magnetic resonance defecography is in the subbasement of Mount Sinai.
—Cara Schacter, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2022
But Powell was struck by the show’s final scene in the building’s subbasement where five men were taking out mountains of trash.
—Carmine Gallo, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
The earth proves to have a subbasement utopia of pale, wise beings who fear and marvel at their visitors.
—Paul Collins, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2020
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Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 11 May 2025
The building was used to bottle and distribute milk to retail locations by train — the train tracks are still located in the subbasement of the building.
—Caroline Linton, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2024
Reading them has become our favorite — and often only — form of recreation here under the flickering fluorescent lights in the subbasement mailroom at the Department of Data.
—Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
For one thing, the hotel’s reputation had plummeted into its subbasement, with mocking public complaints about peeling wallpaper, worn furniture and bedbugs.
—Dan Barry, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
Halley Zelicoff, a food stylist, has been to 30 of Mr. Trinidad’s dinners, including the first, which was held in a subbasement of a warehouse.
—Robert Simonson, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2022
My second magnetic resonance defecography is in the subbasement of Mount Sinai.
—Cara Schacter, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2022
But Powell was struck by the show’s final scene in the building’s subbasement where five men were taking out mountains of trash.
—Carmine Gallo, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
The earth proves to have a subbasement utopia of pale, wise beings who fear and marvel at their visitors.
—Paul Collins, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2020
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“Subbasement.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subbasement. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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