How to Use root cellar in a Sentence

root cellar

noun
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  • Still, when the full moon lights up your root cellar, what’s a Gem to do but play a few old tapes?
    — SFChronicle.com, 8 Mar. 2020
  • The mural leads down into the root cellar of the historic site.
    — Benjamin Wells, Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Found in the root cellar of a fur trader’s house, the lock appears to have been attached to a small chest or trunk.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 26 June 2017
  • The milk cellar was similar to a root cellar and was used to keep milk products cool.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • My grandma and her sister hid from bombs in a neighbor’s root cellar as young girls.
    — Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Her remains were found in one of three root cellars on the property at Route 1, Box 114 B, Marbury.
    — al, 13 Feb. 2020
  • All that remains of the camp are some log foundations and a root cellar, which has been turned into a rough bunk house dubbed the Hillbilly Hilton.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2022
  • The root cause can be found all over the root cellar: the dust in Amish homes contained more bacterial molecules than did the Hutterites'.
    — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Potatoes and turnips from the root cellar sold out, as did fettuccine and sourdough bread crafted from organic grains grown and milled on the farm.
    — Jennifer Oldham Washington Post, Star Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The Rasmussens have treated the Cold War-era shelter as their son’s onetime drum studio and a sometime vegetable root cellar.
    — Erin Grace, The Seattle Times, 27 Jan. 2018
  • Growing up near Midway, her home had a root cellar and gardens were plentiful.
    — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Some of the soups will be made from this winter's root cellar produce, featuring pumpkin and garden vegetable soup.
    — Courant Community, 9 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Mighty Mars in your root cellar is a potent charge to take action in the family togetherness department.
    — Minerva, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • From the root cellar, however, no middleman was required.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The restoration project, completed in 2018, included the wash house, root cellar, curing shed, and other workspaces that supported daily life on the farmstead on Kearney Street.
    — Dallas News, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The majority were sheltering in an underground root cellar in the back yard of another farmhouse.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • People forget that, not so long ago, survival often depended on working tirelessly all year to fill root cellars so a family could last through a long, cold winter – and still many died.
    — Stephanie Preston, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2020
  • But some hikes also feature unusual treats: a boulder shaped like an elephant's head, the fuselage of a small airplane, an old root cellar converted into a resting place for hikers.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2022
  • And, anyway, wasn’t the predominant issue in the last election the allegedly careless handling of classified material on a private email server down in the root cellars of Chappaqua?
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Creamy new-crop potatoes deserve a little appreciation before they’re sent off to root cellars, and Mr. Hardy built a fine appetizer around them with leggy broccoli sprouts and melting chunks of fresh mozzarella spiked with anchovy.
    — New York Times, 19 June 2018
  • Basement: Items that would be used in a root cellar for winter storage of root vegetables, canning supplies, butchering tools, smokehouse tools, winter bedding material/tools/cages for farm animals and farming tools.
    — cleveland, 29 Feb. 2020
  • In a peaceful time, a typical Ukrainian root cellar is an underground structure that’s used as an alternative to a refrigerator for storing crops, preserves and ferments.
    — Anna Voloshyna, Washington Post, 17 June 2022
  • Uses for an outdoor root cellar are still under consideration.
    — Paris Wolfe, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Previous projects have included work to build greenhouses, canning stations, root cellars, drip irrigation and garden fencing.
    — Kimberly Albrecht, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Visitors can discover 600 million-year-old fossils, spectacular rock formations, traditional root cellar farming, and learn about geopark conservation and history.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2021

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