"basement" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- At a dozen stops that included brownstone basements, storefronts with black-painted windows and places that looked more like industrial sites than nightclubs, the officers approached, pounded on a door and yelled: "Police!
- Mr. Davis was the co-owner and manager of Leon & Eddie's, which began as a Prohibition-era speakeasy in a brownstone basement at 18 West 52d Street.
- Waxie, on the other hand, had slowed considerably in the two hours since they'd visited the brownstone basement where the first body had been found more than three months before.
- Calculating that persons might be watching him, he was trying to coax them to the brownstone basement, that he might spot them in his turn.
- Time was when Case had looked forward to such an adventure, but his experience in the brownstone basement had taught him much.
- Second, Sunset Hills Vineyards, a winery scattered around a brownstone basement in Sunset Park, three minutes from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, won a silver medal for its first entry, an '85 zinfandel blended with grenache.
- From the 1930's through the 60's, few blocks of Manhattan's West Side were without a bistro or two, often in brownstone basements that had once been speakeasies.
- I have heard the urban legend that the grates that lead into many storefront or brownstone basements are notorious for giving way when people step on them.
- Built in 1887 and designed by William J. Merritt, this row has rock-faced brownstone basements and deep red-brick facades with a varying oriels, terra cotta trim, cornices and roof lines.
- Only 144-148 now survive, but they share typical detailing of the Italianate style: rusticated brownstone basements, plain brick facades, projecting brownstone window lintels and bracketed cornices.
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