Examples of root cellar in a Sentence
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Part of the plan is to rent a room from Marva Munson (Irma P. Hall) and utilize her root cellar in their plot.
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Tim Moffatt, EW.com, 26 Jan. 2024
Even the bathrooms are luxurious with high ceilings and marbled walls; a fancy wine library peers down into an old root cellar, a beacon of the home’s heritage.
—Jess Lander, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 May 2023
Soon, a new root cellar will be finished.
—The Guardian, Scientific American, 11 Nov. 2021
Growing up near Midway, her home had a root cellar and gardens were plentiful.
—Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2023
Almost all of its residents had fled; the few who remained were living out of their root cellars, coming up to ground level only to scavenge for food.
—David Kortava, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2023
And, Bob’s your uncle, a root cellar!
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Oct. 2020
Uses for an outdoor root cellar are still under consideration.
—Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2022
The mural leads down into the root cellar of the historic site.
—Benjamin Wells, Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2022
Tim Moffatt, EW.com, 26 Jan. 2024
Even the bathrooms are luxurious with high ceilings and marbled walls; a fancy wine library peers down into an old root cellar, a beacon of the home’s heritage.
—Jess Lander, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 May 2023
Soon, a new root cellar will be finished.
—The Guardian, Scientific American, 11 Nov. 2021
Growing up near Midway, her home had a root cellar and gardens were plentiful.
—Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2023
Almost all of its residents had fled; the few who remained were living out of their root cellars, coming up to ground level only to scavenge for food.
—David Kortava, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2023
And, Bob’s your uncle, a root cellar!
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Oct. 2020
Uses for an outdoor root cellar are still under consideration.
—Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2022
The mural leads down into the root cellar of the historic site.
—Benjamin Wells, Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2022
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First Known Use
1767, in the meaning defined above
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root cellar
noun
: an underground storage area for vegetables and especially those (as carrots) with enlarged roots
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