(n.) A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shackles were found in the cellar, and yesterday police found a trap door.
(2) Last Friday evening, ahead of the congress, the politicians gathered with 100 guests for a dinner in the vaulted cellar of a castle, Burg Weisenau, in the nearby city of Mainz.
(3) It was happening in the cellars of Paris during the occupation in terms of jazz records.
(4) From six captures of Drosophila melanogaster carried out in three different habitats (cellar, vineyard, and pinewood) in two different seasons of the year (spring and autumn), 60 eye-colour mutations were isolated, which were reduced to 29 loci by means of allelism tests within and between populations.
(5) In Walsden, Abbi Blackburn was left stranded in her home after five feet of water poured into her cellar.
(6) Marshall has also established that the cellars regularly flooded disastrously: he began his own work in the building standing in a foot of foetid water.
(7) The EU has so far insisted that the UK cannot offset its share of European Union assets, such as buildings, or indeed the commission’s generous wine cellar, from the bill.
(8) Hence Riva's ordeal in the bathroom, and another almost unwatchable moment that corresponds to the revelation of Mrs Bates rotting in the fruit cellar.
(9) You will never see cream in my house that is not in a jug, nor salt that is not in a cellar.
(10) The cellar level is on the average 5.4 times higher if the cellar has partially a gravel or earth floor than if the whole cellar surface is covered with a concrete floor.
(11) A staircase descends steeply into a network of tunnels and cellars that lead to extraordinary old chalk pits.
(12) The air breathed by three cellar workers was monitored continuously during working hours for one wk.
(13) On the current track, maybe life does become unbearable in the future, when the last remaining cubic centimetre of public space – a trembling pocket of air perhaps, in a cellar at the Emirates British Library – is finally acquired by a friend of King Charles III.
(14) More sybaritically, there is a wine cellar, and a tunnel to the Mandarin Oriental through which meals can be served.
(15) A total number of nearly 100 houses were investigated in Angera; the highest radon concentrations were observed in cellars and especially in the areas where fractures are bigger and more diffuse.
(16) This government was right to examine quangos: if we can't afford universal child benefit, we can't afford committees advising on what wine to buy for government cellars (although if governments want drinks parties, somebody must buy drink).
(17) As well as outlining the property bought in each case, each lease document also specifies which area of the development's wine cellar the buyer is entitled to.
(18) Elsewhere in town, I was reviewing a young double-act called Mitchell and Webb, and – performing in a cellar – a promising character comic, Catherine Tate.
(19) 6.4.1994 Emmerdale ablaze When someone points to a box of fireworks and says, "They should be in the cellar", you know the whole place is about to go up in a dazzling racket of rockets.
(20) I found a section on shocking revenge acts – like kidnapping the son of a mafioso, keeping him hostage in a cellar for two years, then strangling him.
Seller
Definition:
(n.) One who sells.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Seller reports are key to identifying bad buyers and ridding them from our marketplace," says eBay.
(2) We are going to see a sharp fall unless sellers hold the sector up by making aggressive offers.
(3) Over the past year, under the rule of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi , security forces have ousted street sellers from the core of the city centre and prominent locations such as Ramses Square, home to Cairo’s main train terminal.
(4) Miles Shipside, Rightmove director, said: "The number of new sellers is slightly up on the same period last year, though perhaps as a reflection of their urgency to sell, or to compensate for the distraction of the achievements served up by Team GB, they have dropped their asking prices more aggressively than summer sellers in previous years."
(5) April 2009 Newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson dies during G20 protests in London after being struck by police.
(6) The former tea seller who started his political career with a far right Hindu revivalist organisation promised "good times ahead".
(7) Property experts said a lack of new homes coming on to the market ahead of the general election squeezed prices upwards as sellers awaited the outcome of the vote.
(8) The IPCC held back from independently investigating the death, even after discovering witnesses had come forward to say they had seen Tomlinson attacked by a police officer, and photographs had emerged showing the newspaper seller lying at the feet of riot police.
(9) For the first time this year, the asking prices posted on the Rightmove website for homes in London fell by 0.5% in early June, compared with the month before, in part due to a rapid increase in sellers rushing to cash in on rising prices.
(10) Figures for Amazon are harder to obtain, but UK sellers believe Chinese sellers are leading the field in many product lines on its site, too.
(11) Turkey would be a risk too far when there are safe havens such as the US starting to offer a return on safe investments The nervous state of markets these days means there is generally either a surplus of buyers or a surplus of sellers; only rarely have we seen periods of calm with roughly equal numbers.
(12) She travelled to the UK three times in 2009, the year her second album, Fearless, became the biggest seller in the US.
(13) "It's both a protest and a safety measure," said one tobacco seller.
(14) The simplicity and reliability of the fluorescent-antibody technique and the occasional serious complications of prophylactic anti-rabies measures make the diagnostic use of Seller's method at best undesirable and at worst dangerous.
(15) "We are not sellers; we are distributors," he said.
(16) Aortography demonstrated acute dissecting aneurysm of the ascending, arch and descending aorta (DeBakey type I) as well as aortic valve regurgitation (Seller's II degree).
(17) Not only does this prevent sellers from evaluating buyers in the same way, but if a seller's rating is affected by detrimental comments, they are not allowed to know which buyer left these and are therefore unable to contest them.
(18) "New-seller asking prices are good lead indicators of the current mood of the market, and those who have put their property up for sale in the last month are obviously aware that potential buyers are thinner on the ground at this time of year and need to be tempted to act by cheaper prices."
(19) Some people believe that it just works but the reality is that the online buyer-seller relationship can falter at any one of a number of hurdles.
(20) Because another top seller is the relaunched, reinvented Furby , which has returned, smarter and more likely to claim a year-long role at the forefront of your child's nightmares than ever.