How to Use root cellar in a Sentence

root cellar

noun

• Still, when the full moon lights up your root cellar, what’s a Gem to do but play a few old tapes?
  — SFChronicle.com, 8 Mar. 2020
• The mural leads down into the root cellar of the historic site.
  — Benjamin Wells, Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2022
• My grandma and her sister hid from bombs in a neighbor’s root cellar as young girls.
  — Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2022
• The milk cellar was similar to a root cellar and was used to keep milk products cool.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• Found in the root cellar of a fur trader’s house, the lock appears to have been attached to a small chest or trunk.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 26 June 2017
• Store onions in a cool, dark, and dry location such as a pantry, mudroom, garage, basement, or root cellar.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2024
• Store onions in a cool, dry, and dark location, such as a pantry, mudroom, garage, basement, or root cellar.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Mar. 2026
• Then, dig up your homegrown garlic bulbs and store them in a root cellar or cool basement, or add them to your favorite recipes.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Nov. 2025
• Growing up near Midway, her home had a root cellar and gardens were plentiful.
  — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2023
• This silky, smooth roasted vegetable soup calls on the heroes of the root cellar—namely sweet potatoes, rutabagas, and parsnips.
  — Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2024
• Many home preservers pack root cellar vegetables away in straw to keep produce from getting bruised or damaged in storage.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Nov. 2025
• Many home preservers pack root cellar vegetables away in straw to keep produce from getting bruised or damaged in storage.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Oct. 2024
• Some of the soups will be made from this winter's root cellar produce, featuring pumpkin and garden vegetable soup.
  — Courant Community, 9 Jan. 2018
• 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.
  — Jennifer Oldham Washington Post, Star Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
• Many growers store garlic bulbs in mesh bags in dry root cellars, but softneck garlic braids look so appealing they’re often displayed in kitchens.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2024
• Almost all of its residents had fled; the few who remained were living out of their root cellars, coming up to ground level only to scavenge for food.
  — David Kortava, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2023
• All that remains of the camp are some log foundations and a root cellar, which has been turned into a rough bunk house dubbed the Hillbilly Hilton.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2022
• Uses for an outdoor root cellar are still under consideration.
  — Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2022
• Mighty Mars in your root cellar is a potent charge to take action in the family togetherness department.
  — Minerva, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2017
• For example, an unheated garage, attic, or root cellar is an ideal location for storing bulbs over the winter.
  — Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Oct. 2025
• The majority were sheltering in an underground root cellar in the back yard of another farmhouse.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• With proper storage, most potatoes will last for about two to three months in a root cellar, but some late-season russet potatoes stay fresh for an impressive seven to eight months.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2025
• Even the bathrooms are luxurious with high ceilings and marbled walls; a fancy wine library peers down into an old root cellar, a beacon of the home’s heritage.
  — Jess Lander, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 May 2023
• Fruit and vegetables are usually stored separately in root cellars to slow down the spread of ethylene gas and keep vegetables from spoiling.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Oct. 2024
• The Rasmussens have treated the Cold War-era shelter as their son’s onetime drum studio and a sometime vegetable root cellar.
  — Erin Grace, The Seattle Times, 27 Jan. 2018
• People forget that, not so long ago, survival often depended on working tirelessly all year to fill root cellars so a family could last through a long, cold winter – and still many died.
  — Stephanie Preston, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2020
• By the 1980s, Masing had built up enough evidence to show that root cellars and ruins were a significant source of bat habitat.
  — Corey Buhay, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2024
• Her remains were found in one of three root cellars on the property at Route 1, Box 114 B, Marbury.
  — al, 13 Feb. 2020
• Fortunately, unlike removing a root cellar or telephone nook, getting rid of popcorn ceilings is relatively easy.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 15 Jan. 2025
• Previous projects have included work to build greenhouses, canning stations, root cellars, drip irrigation and garden fencing.
  — Kimberly Albrecht, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018