How to Use cellar in a Sentence
- The cellar has a dirt floor.
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This ice cellar was dug by hand, decades prior.
—Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
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Perhaps, but why let cellar-dwellers get in the way of progress?
—Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2022
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The Knicks were in the midst of a cellar-dwelling eight-year stretch.
—Fred Katz, New York Times, 26 May 2026
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Its stylish design will look great in a cellar or in the front of a shop.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2025
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Home cooks dried and fried them, pressed them into cider, and stored them in cellars.
—Pam Lolley, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2023
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Plus a cellar full of Australia's finest wine.
—Natalie Hoberman, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
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The cellar was filled to the floorboards above, and barrels hit the floor joists.
—Laura Ness, Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2026
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When the man reached the entrance to the ice cellar, a large male polar bear was there.
—Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
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Sturdy metal racks can sit in the cellar and keep wine in a cool, dark room for years.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2025
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These eight-legged creepy-crawlies are found in basements, cellars, and dark corners.
—Steve Bender, Southern Living, 21 May 2026
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There may have been a staircase or ladder in place to reach the bottom of the cellar.
—Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
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The fire bled upward from the cellar and swelled to an inferno overnight.
—Danny Freedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2022
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Russian soldiers shot dead four civilians in the cellar of the house.
—Katya Soldak, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
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Underneath the house, a cellar provides clues and relics to the past.
—Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 26 Feb. 2026
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Gary's will stock up your cellar once a quarter with a new crate of red, white, or mixed bottles of wine.
—Kate Dingwall, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023
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And if aging wine is his thing, all the better as this one can go the distance in the cellar.
—Mike Richard, Men's Health, 18 Nov. 2022
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The cellar included an art studio open to all.
—Will Ellis, Curbed, 6 Jan. 2026
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Despite expanding the cellar three times and adding tanks to brew more beer, the space proved too small.
—Gary Dzen, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Jan. 2023
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And the dogfight for the NL East cellar rages on.
—Greg Cote may 31, Miami Herald, 31 May 2026
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There is also a five-hole golf course with a driving range, sports court, skate park and wine-and-cigar cellar.
—Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
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The examples where teams went from the cellar to the playoffs are few and far between.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 1 May 2026
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The thief dropped a bottle of whiskey, rushed to the cellar and left through the ceiling hole, Helal said.
—Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
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When both the mother and father are unknowns, the sky (as well as the cellar) is the limit.
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 5 Aug. 2022
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Food would be brought and always put down far away from my room, outside the cellar’s outermost door.
—Becca Rothfeld, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
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Or, head downstairs in their wine-cellar-style dining space a late night subterranean drink.
—Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2026
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Levante remained in the cellar.
—ABC News, 16 Mar. 2026
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The air carries the scent of earth after rain — damp ancient stone, cellar walls, perhaps a trace of smoke.
—ABC News, 16 June 2026
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Boston is in the cellar, 32-46, in need of a rebuild.
—Chris Branch, New York Times, 25 June 2026
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Can the Keydets find a way out of the SoCon cellar?
—Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
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The wines still can be cellared for years after their release.
—Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Oct. 2017
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Also, grab an extra bottle to cellar for next year; this is one of those beers that gets better with age.
—Ac Shilton, Outside Online, 6 Dec. 2019
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Structured enough to cellar, but irresistible right now.
—Devin Parr, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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This has the structure and depth of fruit to cellar for another 10-20 years.
—Tom Hyland, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
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Given that the wines will cellar with grace and promise over two decades, now is certainly the time to pick up some bargains and fill the racks.
—Paul Caputo, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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No conference is strong from roof to cellar in the revenue-making sports — football and basketball.
—Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2022
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This is drinking beautifully now, but those with patience can easily cellar it for the next 20 years.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 27 Jan. 2025
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This handy gadget will bring reds to cellar temperature in 15 minutes and keep your whites cool for about 60 minutes.
—Maureen Farrar, Outside Online, 9 June 2022
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Keeping carrots and cellaring them, that concentrates the sugars.
—Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 July 2018
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Shipments include six bottles total, two of each selection, so members have one to open now and one to cellar for savoring at a later date.
—Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 17 Feb. 2026
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This makes the wines more affordable, as well, because they can be sold immediately with no patient cellaring required.
—Marnie Old, Philly.com, 14 Sep. 2017
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With cooler weather on the way, the kitchen staff has been making jams out of the last of summer peaches and apricots, pickling green beans and cellaring root vegetables.
—Nancy Matsumoto, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
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It will be matured in the family’s Ursulines cellars for another 12 to 15 months before bottling and then be released after an additional four years.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 30 Mar. 2024
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