WAREHOUSE in a Sentence

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35 example sentences for WAREHOUSE, such as:

1. The warehouse has been badly damaged by fire.
2. A large warehouse for agricultural implements.
3. The warehouse of the buyer of cream and potatoes.
4. Murdstone and Grinby's warehouse was at the waterside.
5. The trucks waited at the warehouse to pick up their loads.

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warehouse
 n.  depot; storehouse for goods and merchandise
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  But he drew rein abruptly, almost at Marietta Street, in the shadow of a warehouse not yet touched by the flames.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
2  Then, there was a crash of falling timbers near by and Scarlett saw a thin tongue of flame lick up over the roof of the warehouse in whose sheltering shadow they sat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  Somewhere amid these ruins, undistinguishable from the others, lay what remained of her own warehouse on the property Charles had left her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
4  The old lawyer was battling valiantly to save the house and the one piece of downtown property where the warehouse had been, so Wade and Scarlett would have something left from the wreckage.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
5  She even talked of building a saloon on the property where her warehouse had been until Sherman burned it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  The warehouse of the buyer of cream and potatoes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  A large warehouse for agricultural implements.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  She could soon tell at what coachmaker's the new carriage was building, by what painter Mr. Willoughby's portrait was drawn, and at what warehouse Miss Grey's clothes might be seen.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
9  Murdstone and Grinby's warehouse was at the waterside.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK...
10  I discovered, however, that this youth had not been christened by that name, but that it had been bestowed upon him in the warehouse, on account of his complexion, which was pale or mealy.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK...
11  Mr. Quinion then formally engaged me to be as useful as I could in the warehouse of Murdstone and Grinby, at a salary, I think, of six shillings a week.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK...
12  This made a hole in the six or seven shillings, I know well; and I was out at the warehouse all day, and had to support myself on that money all the week.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK...
13  Any one who had quitted Marseilles a few years previously, well acquainted with the interior of Morrel's warehouse, and had returned at this date, would have found a great change.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29. The House of Morrel & Son.
14  Like the rats that one by one forsake the doomed ship even before the vessel weighs anchor, so all the numerous clerks had by degrees deserted the office and the warehouse.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29. The House of Morrel & Son.
15  Mr. Rochester obliged me to go to a certain silk warehouse: there I was ordered to choose half-a-dozen dresses.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence:
1  The warehouse has been badly damaged by fire.
2  The trucks waited at the warehouse to pick up their loads.
3  The goods have been sitting in a warehouse for months because a strike has prevented distribution.
4  A sixty-eight year old dealer had his warehouse raided this week and the police confiscated nearly a million and a quarter bangers, rockets and firecrackers.
5  Amazon has patented a wristband that tracks the hand movements of warehouse workers and uses vibrations to nudge them into being more efficient.
6  It faced huge supply chain problems due to a myriad of problems at its warehouses, poor communication with headquarters and the use of inexperienced staff.