basement - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • building: The café , in the basement of the building, is also well worth a visit.

Converse of object

  • vault: Vaulted basement with gun loops either side of gateway remains.
  • convert: I have begun the job of converting the basement into habitable space for a growing family!
  • occupy: He lived in these premises with the servants and staff occupying the basement.
  • fill: On the brighter side, my pest problems would be over if I filled the entire basement with CO2.

Adjective modifier

  • Paleozoic: Recession of the plateaux margins has exposed underlying Mesozoic strata and, in some areas, the Paleozoic basement.
  • dingy: The vinyl version is like being led down into a dingy basement, with the lights off.
  • Precambrian: The MT survey confirmed the existence of a Mesozoic sedimentary basin between lava flows and the Precambrian basement.
  • dank: What she delivers are simple, pretension free songs perfectly suited to a cold Monday evening in a dank basement.
  • crystalline: The southernmost mountain system of the Anti-Atlas thus consists of crystalline basement and Paleozoic sediments.
  • wet: Depending on where you live, you may be prone to having a wet basement.

Modifies a noun

  • membrane: The basement membrane is an example of extracellular matrix, the subject of the next lecture.
  • jaxx: Basement Jaxx are playing along with Roots Manuva, the two sole reasons for going.
  • reservoir: This production rate is likely to increase as White Tiger and Dragon fields are improved ( both fields producing from basement reservoirs ).
  • cellar: Their 13-year-old son Tony, who was in the back basement cellar, survived.
  • stair: I still canât do the laundry myself because I canât navigate the basement stairs yet.
  • stack: For folio books published earlier than 1970 please ask at the Enquiries Desk and they will be fetched for you from the basement stacks.

Noun used with modifier

  • bargain: Bargain Basement items are sold with a 30 day warranty only.
  • semi: They incorporated full air conditioning, atriums, glass wall climber lifts, fully accessible floors, basement and semi basement car parks.
  • museum: We are not interested in filling museum basements with ever more boxes of bric-a-brac.

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