Basements is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Basements meaning
plural of basement
Using Basements
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of basement
- In the example corpus, basements often appears in combinations such as: basements and, in basements, the basements.
Context around Basements
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 7 middle, 12 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Basements
- In this selection, "basements" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, buildings, muggy, finished, completing, may and stairwells stand out and add context to how "basements" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and in basements and and unfinished basements. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "basements" sits close to words such as airbags, akure and aman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with basements
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The one-story structures will have pitched roofs, front porches and unfinished basements. (13 words)
Many of you dealt with flooded roads and lakes in your basements and sent us video. (16 words)
Humsure dehumidifier reviewers swear works wonders in super humid areas of their homes (looking at you, muggy basements). (18 words)
Monica Lewis-Patrick, president and CEO of the community organization We the People of Detroit, says that she knows of “elders still living in homes where they’ve never been able to clean up the feces and wastewater in their basements” from past flooding. (44 words)
In any case, it’s likely that more people died or were wounded in the fighting than the 70,000 residents of Bakhmut before the war; a population now almost completely gone, save for a few dozen desperate souls hiding out in basements. (43 words)
The morose cast of the LED bulb looks one step up from the dread fluorescent, with its grim hue supplying the gray to barely finished basements, the line at the D.M.V. and the waiting room in the E.R. Stark. (42 words)
Example sentences (20)
Usonian houses most commonly featured flat roofs and were mostly constructed without basements, completing the excision of attics and basements from houses, a feat Wright had been attempting since the early 20th century.
Against the backdrop of last week’s in the Northeast, Sunday’s rain flooded roads and basements with water.
As construction equipment cleared mud from driveways and sump pumps pushed water from basements into the streets, state and federal officials trudged along.
Attics and basements may already be full of other treasures, leaving no room for that new holiday display you bought this year.
Cho’s remarkable documentary picks up where her grandmother left off, granting viewers privileged access not only to the basements, stairwells, kitchens and backrooms of Montreal’s Chinatown but to those of the above-noted cities as well.
Ethnic Armenian leaders have reported that those who remain in the Karabakh enclave are without food and shelter, sleeping in abandoned school buildings, basements or on the streets.
Extreme rainfall events and flooding are also on the rise, making a mockery of yesteryear's stormwater infrastructure and sending stormwater and sewage cascading into basements.
Following July’s devastating floods, the rain caused widespread anxiety as state and local officials watched rivers jump their banks, in some cases flooding businesses and basements.
However, the NJ DEP says Some snakes, such as garter snakes and milk snakes, can often be found near homes and in basements.
Humsure dehumidifier reviewers swear works wonders in super humid areas of their homes (looking at you, muggy basements).
In any case, it’s likely that more people died or were wounded in the fighting than the 70,000 residents of Bakhmut before the war; a population now almost completely gone, save for a few dozen desperate souls hiding out in basements.
Living room-style common areas lacking co-working space, large lobbies, and fitness rooms tucked away in basements no longer work, Tye said.
Make sure that if you don’t use your closet for storage, you avoid areas where there is direct sunlight or too much moisture, like in basements or attics.
Many of you dealt with flooded roads and lakes in your basements and sent us video.
Monica Lewis-Patrick, president and CEO of the community organization We the People of Detroit, says that she knows of “elders still living in homes where they’ve never been able to clean up the feces and wastewater in their basements” from past flooding.
Since the earthquake and tsunami destroyed the plant’s cooling systems and caused three reactors to melt, highly contaminated cooling water applied to the damaged reactors has leaked continuously to the buildings` basements and mixed with groundwater.
The morose cast of the LED bulb looks one step up from the dread fluorescent, with its grim hue supplying the gray to barely finished basements, the line at the D.M.V. and the waiting room in the E.R. Stark.
The one-story structures will have pitched roofs, front porches and unfinished basements.
They have recalled being locked in basements as punishment, hair being cut to stamp out their identities, and physical and mental abuse.
Water used to cool the reactors’ cores leaked into the basements of the reactor buildings and mixed with rainwater and groundwater.
Common combinations with basements
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- basements and 23×
- in basements 20×
- the basements 13×
- and basements 8×
- their basements 7×
- into basements 6×
- basements of 6×
- basements as 5×
- of basements 5×
- basements in 4×