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 trio went downstairs and sat on the floor in the basement.
  — Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 13 July 2025
• 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 | [e-mail], 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 floor smelled ripe, the smell of classrooms and basements, which came back to him with another pulse of childhood excitement.
  — Clare Sestanovich, New Yorker, 13 July 2025
• What complicated matters, according to these notes, was that Falcon hid in the attic instead of the basement, where he'd been told to hide.
  — EW.com, 15 July 2025