Synonym: cellar. Similar words: chastisement, advertisement, commencement, element, movement, implement, placement, statement. Meaning: ['beɪsmənt] n. 1. the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage 2. the ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture.
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(121) Following earlier reductions in the staff the offices in our basement were unoccupied, but used for storing old files.
(122) Later yet we are herded down to the basement, told to crouch and to cover our heads with our arms.
(123) In an urban environment, basement flats are not advisable for the single dweller.
(124) She walked down a stone staircase to a basement where you could hang your coat.
(125) The police report that over 40 percent of burglaries of urban dwellings are break-ins to basement flats.
(126) Kate's old basement apartment was gutted, painted white, covered with cork pinboard and transformed into Toby's office.
(127) They heard her clatter down the basement stairs to her room.
(128) Lord Denning stated that the position would have been different if the stairs leading to the basement had given way.
(129) The basement of the house had sustained heavy damage and part of the ceiling on the top floor had collapsed.
(130) He had to break a window in the basement to get in.
(131) Thus it has been possible to study the behaviour of the basin basement using a measure derived from the basement formations.
(132) The books fell to the basement boiler room, where they were recovered by the thief.
(133) Just then the raucous clamour of alarm bells sounded from all over the house and from the basement area ahead of him.
(134) More than two thirds of 1,344 respondents considered a basement a desirable feature, with a third considering them very desirable.
(135) The bookshop was on the ground floor, and the gallery in the basement.
(136) The first light of dawn found Joe in Lucy's basement room at the mews cottage.
(137) The income from private tutoring was falling and the Joyces were obliged to move to a basement flat near Brompton Cemetery.
(138) Otherwise, the basement is well underground, and Jasper had himself forced the hooks into the concrete wall.
(139) Palaeontological studies only relate to the very small areas of sedimentary cover over certain parts of the crystalline basement in this region.
(140) The demonic forces have their command post in the basement offices of the psychology department.
(141) Went in through the coal chute, down into the basement, came back upstairs, and let him in.
(142) In addition to the scale, the basement contained the weight room and lockers and it dwarfed the gym above us.
(143) We've converted the basement to give the children more room to play.sentencedict.com
(144) Most significantly, an interesting similarity to the human basement membrane heparan sulphate proteoglycan core protein was detected.
(145) The music was simply put into cardboard boxes and left in his brother's basement.
(146) My basement is a complete mess and has been for years.
(147) They even went down to the basement bomb shelter and shook pillows.
(148) There is sitting on hard benches in drafty basement locker rooms listening to the coach scream at you.
(149) It was like being in an elevator which suddenly drops from the top of a twenty storey building to the basement.
(150) At home, in the evenings, my husband might go down to the basement to exercise.
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