noun
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Etymology
Origin of storehouse
First recorded in 1300–50, storehouse is from the Middle English word storhous. See store, house
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, at Portchester Castle in Hampshire, the warm conditions have led to parch marks revealing the outline of a Tudor storehouse.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
"I remember that as a child I climbed up there, all the way to the main roof tile," former salt farmer Omer Hot said, gesturing at the seven-metre-high storehouse roof.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Yasuo Yamamoto grew up playing hide-and-seek between old barrels in the storehouse where his family has been brewing soy sauce for more than 150 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
His notebooks, bursting with images and anecdotes of real-life folks whose stories caught his attention, provided a storehouse for his plays.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025
She had thought she had known what it meant to be afraid, but she learned better in that storehouse beside the Gods Eye.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
According to a U.S. military official, the U.S. would be able to send certain munitions “almost immediately” to Ukraine because storehouses exist in Europe.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
The subjects of the empire were also expected to provide labor for the construction of roads, bridges, palaces, and religious structures and to serve as messengers, transport food to storehouses, or serve in the military.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
As night fell, it seemed as if the storm was likely holding storehouses of rain in reserve.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2022
“These are basically the storehouses and the lungs for water and air in the state. They need to invest in this landscape.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2022
In the distance, a few sauropods loomed over the rooftops of those huge dinofeed storehouses, long, graceful silhouettes against the cloudy night.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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