in the cellar

Examples from literature

Paul had gone down into the cellar and let the door fall behind him. 
Ten thousand pounds of powder are in these cellars. 
The cream should stand down cellar over night, after being scalded, that it may get perfectly cold. 
The currants are to be washed and squeezed in the usual way, and the juice placed in a stone or earthen vessel, and set away in a cool place in the cellar. 
Windows there were none in the cellar. 

cellar | American Dictionary

cellar
noun[ C ]
us/ˈsel·ər/
a room under the ground floor of a building, esp. a house, that is usually used for storage

Examples of cellar

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The foundations are neither wine cellars nor catacombs.
Behind the cellar, the communal pipework is easily accessible through a corridor which runs along the whole length of the housing estate.
The cellar comprised a spacious garage, for at least five cars, with windows looking onto a sunken mews.
The latter comprises the living quarters proper and other elements such as cellars, ovens, graves, stables and other annexes.
On the farmyard side, this simple trabeated logic is developed further to create a storage bay alongside the cartway, with cellars beneath.
This labyrinth, being sheltered by the building, will be at a temperature close to the mean ground temperature, like a cellar or cave.
The dominant images - walls, cellars, basements, staircases - are concomitants of this spatial deprivation.
The cartway floor is essentially a cantilever, slightly higher than yard level, and counterbalanced by the heavy retaining structure of the cellar.
Only absolutely measured amounts of air were admitted via a cellar within which the air would be rigorously filtered and treated.
Thus, out-of school musical practices no longer take place only in garages, cellars, or occasional performances at school parties.
They slept in cellars on bags of soot and seldom washed.
The more space devoted to dream management, the less that will presumably be available for holdings - even more in the cellars, perhaps?
The chilled collection lies in the cellar.
A ponderous mass of archival material has accumulated in my cellar, two thousand miles away, but it is merely a dense fog obscuring the heart and pain of it all.
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