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How to use the word basement in a Sentence?

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Innovation has no roof… but it has a basement

Yasser Aljehani

added by Y.Aljehani
8 months ago

People went running to safety, we made our way to the other side of the road to get into cover in a basement there. As I looked back, a second missile struck nearly the same place. Another big blast. We took cover. [We were] in a basement with some residents.

Frederik Pleitgen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Biden is back in the basement in Delaware while his Democratic Party struggles to retain control of the House and Senate, this is fitting, given that Biden’s disastrous policies and habit of ignoring the will of the people as expressed in polls has contributed to his own disapproval rating and the existential threat to a Democratic majority.

Kellyanne Conway

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If they try to prosecute President Trump for mishandling classified information after Hillary Clinton set up a server in Hillary Clinton basement, there literally will be riots in the street. I worry about our country.

South Carolina

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When they started shelling us, then in general life changed. I live in the basement, we go there for the night. We have been sleeping there for a month now, i don't think the enemy should be underestimated.

Oksana Miraevska

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have shoppers on an annual basis that'll save between $ 5,000 and $ 10,000 on their grocery bills. We have stories of people buying coolers to put in their basement because they're saving so much money on things like meat, and they just throw it into the cooler.

Flashfood CEO Josh Domingues

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Homeowners tend to undertake a remodeling project for any number of reasons, in some instances, homeowners were content with sprucing up a room with a simple paint job, while in other cases, families decided to take on the task of renovating an entire attic or basement to add additional living space to their home.

Jessica Lautz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Until yesterday, it was only a basement, now we realize it would be wise to have more stuff there.

Ostap Datsenko

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is very difficult for children to go somewhere in the middle of the night and sit in the basement for a long time, we were told that she was in stable condition, and we should try to go. Otherwise, she is simply doomed to death.

Nadia Kryminec

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is impossible to get out of the hospital. They shoot hard, we sit in the basement. Cars have not been able to drive to the hospital for two days. High-rise buildings around us are burning. ... The Russians have rushed 400 people from neighboring buildings to our hospital. We can't leave.

Pavlo Kyrylenko

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is impossible to get out of the hospital. They shoot hard, we sit in the basement. Cars have not been able to drive to the hospital for two days. High-rise buildings around us are burning... the Russians have rushed 400 people from neighboring buildings to our hospital. We can't leave.

Pavlo Kyrylenko

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I had just gotten through the door to the basement when it hit the house. Unfortunately, I lost my dog to the tornado.

Josie Beeson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think that there are too many guns on the street, i would n’t hide in the basement, but I would be concerned about my surroundings. Be concerned about, in a car, what’s around me. It’s what you do in the city.

Jonathan Akubu

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Instead of being impartial media outlets have become advocates for the Democratic Party. They got Joe Biden, who campaign from his basement, elected president, now they're covering up the disastrous policies created by attacking and censoring anyone who exposes the failures. But they can't hide inflation, higher gas prices and rising crime from the people devastated by them.

Ron Johnson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's a few in Manhattan and other parts of New York as well and it's legal. You go downstairs, it's a basement, there'd be all these different rooms. There was a medical room for [a] nurse/doctor fantasy, there was a torture room, another type of chamber, a cross-dressing room, a schoolroom, for any type of fantasy. It's really like role playing, it's like acting. When people say how did you get your start in acting it's really like the dungeon because I would have to improv multiple times a day on very short notice.

Julia Fox

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Don't hide behind the coattails of government. Move forward with business solutions to solve the problems that we have right now, the good news is through advanced technologies, 3D printing, 3D manufacturing, you can put a manufacturing facility in your basement. You can put it in a 1,000 square foot garage. There's no reason we shouldn't be making and printing and designing and producing. And look, you can put a saying on a t-shirt and sell them for $40 and make a $2,000 on the weekend. So get your hustle on, and start doing business.

Bruce Montgomery

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was COVID hysteria that did this to him. I think the best way to put it if you believed or believe everything that the CDC, Dr. Fauci, CNN, Joe Biden, the New York Times, NPR, if you believe everything that they have told you about COVID, you're obviously not going to be in a healthy state because they've told us so many lies, and they made things so extreme, of course, you're going to be sitting in your basement scared.' CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP.

Howard Stern

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Clearly someone spent a lot of time in their basement working hard to invalidate our survey, that gives you an idea of how people are reacting to pandemic decisions. This year, for our teachers especially, it feels a lot more stressful and we're only in November.

Perrysburg School Superintendent Thomas Hosler

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I noticed all sorts of debris swirling up in the air. Pieces of houses and trees, and what not so we knew that was bad, and we made a beeline for the basement.

Clayton Township

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The tracker contradicted his initial testimony that he had been roped up and gagged by three assailants. Instead, what we found was that he moved around the house, going from the attic to the basement.

Apostolos Skrekas

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

No tiger belongs in a backyard or basement, the only reason that people have tigers as pets is to try to show off to others.

Carole Baskin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Joe Biden’s attack on American energy and American workers has led to skyrocketing gas prices, now, this administration’s weak leadership has invited hackers to attack American infrastructure, furthering our energy crisis. Biden’s lead-from-the-basement strategy is hurting American families.

Lauren Boebert

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I thought that maybe I should go out into my neighborhood and teach self-defense to young girls, and so I actually went out and knocked on doors, spoke to community leaders, to parents, to young women, and finally was able to secure a free community center basement and convince enough young women that they should come to my class.

Alexandra Rojas

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I was asked to go into the house and to scan in the basement there below the stairwell, there was an area that was already been dug up and cemented over, if you have disturbed soil, somebody just dug it up and put soil back on the ground and don't put anything in the ground.

Robert Perry

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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