Example sentences for: basement

How can you use “basement” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • On entering the Naval Academy in 1944, I found that a small ice-cream bar in the basement of Bancroft Hall (immidiately under the main entrance and limited to upperclass midshipmen) was semi-officially known as “The Gedunk” (pronounced “gee-dunk,” with a hard g )--although the wares themselves were never called gedunks, but “chocolate sodas,” “sundaes.”

  • However, given that the disruption of the ME cell layer and basement membrane is an absolute prerequisite for tumor invasion and metastasis, these alterations in ME cells might affect the biological behavior of the epithelial cells, making them prone to progression.

  • Park Street Church stands on a site whose nickname comes from Brimstone Corner (some say for the fiery sermons delivered by such figures as Henry Ward Beecher and William Lloyd Garrison, who delivered his first anti-slavery speech here in 1829, others because gunpowder was kept in the basement during the 1812 War).

  • There are restaurants and a Starbuck’s in the basement, and you can access the raised pedestrian crosswalk from the escalators on the ground floor.

  • Jon Katz broods in the isolation of his suburban basement office, apparently limiting his contact to the outside world to e-mail from other self-pitying souls: He composed his Victims' Manifesto, that impenetrable screed called Virtuous Reality.


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