Sentence examples for semi-basement from inspiring English sources
The word 'semi-basement' is correct and can be used in written English
It refers to a partially below ground-level space in a building that is not completely underground and has windows for natural light and ventilation. Example: The apartment building had a semi-basement level that was used as a storage area for the residents.
It was a standard London terraced house, built about 1820, with a semi-basement kitchen, nice staircase, sash windows: 'And it just worked very well.
One way you can create it is like the New York brownstones, which have a semi-basement and some steps up, so you have a gulf between the street and your house.
They came up with a plan to build a semi-basement, plus an upper floor, in a boxy, flat-roofed house that was modest in height and sat well in the space.
In it he said he "deplored some of the arrangements for the Mother and Baby Unit" which was housed in a "cockroach infested semi-basement, looking on to a dirty yard".
Any minute now, an assistant director or other functionary will descend the steps outside the window of the drab semi-basement room where Burton and I have been cloistered these past couple of hours.
This service floor, if it existed at all, was now a discreet semi-basement.
(Where else do you take the elevator to floor 1 1/2?) Years before J. K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series introduced the idea of a magical station platform No. 9 3/4 accessible only to wizards, I knew that mortals were not equipped to find their way through the puzzling mezzanines and semi-basements at Bloomingdale's.
When I went there for dinner, their teenage son was playing a video game in the semi-finished basement.
$300,000 to $599,999 Castleton Corners $540,000 40 Knox Place, Staten Island Number of bedrooms: 3 Number of full bathrooms: 2 Number of half bathrooms: 0 Time on the market: 5 weeks 64-year-old vinyl-sided colonial; dining room, eat-in kitchen, living room with fireplace, c/a, h/w floors, semi-finished basement, 1-car garage, 50-by-100-ft.
lot; taxes $2,000; listed at $595,000 , 8weeks on market (broker: Warren Lewis Realty) Queens REGO PARK $505,00062-411 Ellwell Crescent 2-family, 65-year-old Tudor; 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, dining room, eat-in kitchen, fireplace in each unit; semi-finished basement, 2-car garage, 40-by-100-ft.
The Red Caboose Follow the sound of the clanging train bell and head downstairs to this semi-secret basement hobby shop that we had to include even though it falls just outside the Times Square area (between Fifth and Sixth avenues) because it's such a rare diversion.
