Over the bridges of San Cristoforo and San Gregorio, through the deserted Calle di Mezzo, my friend and I walk in darkness, pass the marble basements of the Salute, and push our way along its Riva to the point of the Dogana.
On the left bank of the Lys, which, passing through the middle of the town, threads its way close under the basements of the houses, is the Place Ste.
Some frequented lanes lead through thebasements of these houses; and as the donkeys pick their way from step to step in the twilight, bare-chested macaroni-makers crowd forth like ants to see us strangers pass.
The basements and gardens of the houses in Cheyne Walk still show traces of this palace of Henry VIII.
So dig into your storerooms, attics and basements and bring forth all your old jars.
Most cellars and basements are now made with concrete floors.
There were basements that were bakeries, or delicatessen shops, or dusty second-hand-book stores, or flower stalls.
The basements of its neighbors were given over to various activities--commercial and otherwise.
From him we learn that tumuli or basements of Indian chapels abound in the neighbourhood, and that many small figures are found, showing the country to have once been densely populated.
I found my old friend Don Benito, who owns an island called Chinal on the Usumacinta, having mounds, tombs, or maybe basements of temples.
The basements and the first story are reserved for the use of the Post-office.
The majority are located in the basements of the buildings, but one or two of the Broadway establishments use second story rooms.
The ribbed pianos tintinnabulated harshly with songs cut from the squalid sheets of Sunday papers: in unseen basements children whined, while on the mantelpiece garish vases rattled to the vibration of traffic.
He had come to take pleasure in the grotesque and the macabre, and even on the sunniest morning his imagination would turn to twilight and foggy eves, to basements and empty houses and loneliness and dust.
Wages were also to some extent higher, and the feeling for the home had grown in the workmen themselves, many of them having removed from theirbasements into new two- or three-roomed flats, and bought good furniture.
The few who could manage it had procured machines and become manufacturers; the rest were crowded out and sat in out-of-the- way basements doing repairs.
On either side of it are stores with basements opening out on these banks.
The water was soon in thebasements of the stores, where it did much damage.
Upon this, we were led into a kind of small tower, with one room, in which we saw two basements resembling altars, decked with coverings of extreme beauty.
On each of these basements stood a gigantic, fat-looking figure, of which the one on the right hand represented the god of war Huitzilopochtli.
Hundreds of families along the river front in Cincinnati had been forced to move by the encroaching river and many merchants had removed their goods from cellars and basements to higher ground.
The newspaper offices of the Post Express and Democrat and the Chronicle had their basements flooded and the presses put out of commission.
Boats were forced into use in the residence districts and the Fire Department, with three steamers, endeavored to keep down the water in the basements in the business section.
The rich merchants and importers lived well, but the middle and poorer classes lived in the basements where rent was cheap.
The women and children who preferred to stay indoors and on hard floors were taken care of in the public halls, the school buildings, and the basements of the churches.
The rule in the basements was for ten men to sleep in a room six by ten feet and do their cooking over a little charcoal fire in one corner of the room.
Emphasis is placed upon the necessity for permanently vacating basements and men will be sent back over the ground daily to see that the persons moved out do not return.
They used limestone especially for the basements of the buildings, which were more particularly exposed to the action of damp, so fatal to crude brick; they also had recourse to it for the construction of the ramparts of the royal palaces.
The place where it has been possible to observe the employment of the vault in the architecture of the Assyrian palaces, is in the very bowels of the basements of these edifices.
They had been soaked with water, descending through the shattered roofs and broken windows, and pouring into the basements and cellars.
Others made their way to the roofs, persuaded that the flood was already inundating the basements and the lower stories of their dwellings.
There are now no dark rooms opening on airless pits for the family, or black closets and dismal basements for the servants.
If I had my way, there wouldn't one stone be left upon another in the English-basements in New York.
In Athies good enough quarters in cellars and half-basements were found for all.
To this day, in the hot season the population of Mosul takes refuge from the torrid heats of summer in windowless basements lighted only by lamps.
The basements of some homes are usable as family fallout shelters as they now stand, without any alterations or changes--especially if the house has two or more stories, and its basement is below ground level.
USING THE CRAWL SPACE UNDER YOUR HOUSE Some homes without basements have "crawl space" between the first floor and the ground underneath the house.
However, most home basements would need some improvements in order to shield their occupants adequately from the radiation given off by fallout particles.
Census Bureau, and these householders have received information on how much fallout protection their basements would provide, and how to improve this protection.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "basements" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
