noun
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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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
Testing the technique in fruit flies, the researchers found that 51 proteins voyaged from the animals’ muscles to their heads and 269 moved from the fat body, the insects’ main energy storehouse, to their legs.
From Science Magazine • May 22, 2024
Mona said that she had seen people breaking into a UN agency storehouse because "they were so hungry, they have nothing to eat".
From BBC • Dec. 8, 2023
The gun in the neighbor’s house came to my mind, and the cans of fruit preserves in the storehouse of the college.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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