warehoused; warehousing; warehouses
1
: to deposit, store, or stock in or as if in a warehouse
2
: to confine or house (a person) in conditions suggestive of a warehouse
Synonyms
Examples of warehouse in a Sentence
Noun
when the warehouse burned down, we lost most of our merchandise
Recent Examples on the Web
Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2024
Inside the garage/warehouse is an array of disembodied gull-wing doors that evoke a flock of injured birds.
—Kathy Gilsinan, WIRED, 24 Apr. 2024
This happens from beginning to end inside a large warehouse, where thundering equipment dries, grinds, sorts and shakes the material high over workers’ heads.
—Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2024
Some warehouses, shipping centers, kitchens, schools and other workplaces can soar above 90 degrees.
—Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2024
Why now is the time right for Wegmans in Charlotte?
Wegmans recently expanded its Ashland, Virginia, warehouse after opening four stores in Raleigh, Wegmans N.C.
—Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 18 Apr. 2024
Coleman was behind the wheel of a 2012 BMW X-3, while Williams was on a Milwaukee County Transit System bus headed for the Amazon warehouse center in Oak Creek.
—Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2024
Groves have since given way to garages, ranches to warehouses.
—Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2024
Indonesian fishers work on nets in a complex of warehouses by the port of Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, March 8, 2024.
—Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2024
Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 22 Feb. 2024
No one wants to go back to the asylums that warehoused patients in locked wards, often for decades.
—Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2024
America’s attempt to safely warehouse billions of secrets is failing from the top of the intel chain to the bottom.
—TIME, 29 Feb. 2024
These people were taken to sober living homes where they were ignored, denied counseling, warehoused and, according to court records, witnesses and one autopsy report, plied with alcohol.
—The Arizona Republic, 16 Jan. 2024
Daily deliveries of materials from Boston Spa, in Yorkshire, where almost a quarter of the library’s books are warehoused, were put on hold.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2023
Cain believes prisons can improve people, not just warehouse them.
—Frank E. Lockwood, arkansasonline.com, 11 Nov. 2023
In Washington state, a trial began on July 24 after the state's occupational safety regulator said that at three Amazon warehouses the ergonomics and pace of work, combined with the company’s discipline system, elevated the risk of developing musculoskeletal disorders.
—WIRED, 16 Aug. 2023
Patchett suggests that in these timeless locales, with their renewable springs of ghostly personae, characters can safely warehouse past versions of themselves and others.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
Noun
At a fast-food drive-thru, a landscaping crew, the Walmart warehouse, or wherever he can get hired.
—Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2024
Inside the garage/warehouse is an array of disembodied gull-wing doors that evoke a flock of injured birds.
—Kathy Gilsinan, WIRED, 24 Apr. 2024
This happens from beginning to end inside a large warehouse, where thundering equipment dries, grinds, sorts and shakes the material high over workers’ heads.
—Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2024
Some warehouses, shipping centers, kitchens, schools and other workplaces can soar above 90 degrees.
—Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2024
Why now is the time right for Wegmans in Charlotte?
Wegmans recently expanded its Ashland, Virginia, warehouse after opening four stores in Raleigh, Wegmans N.C.
—Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 18 Apr. 2024
Coleman was behind the wheel of a 2012 BMW X-3, while Williams was on a Milwaukee County Transit System bus headed for the Amazon warehouse center in Oak Creek.
—Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2024
Groves have since given way to garages, ranches to warehouses.
—Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2024
Indonesian fishers work on nets in a complex of warehouses by the port of Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, March 8, 2024.
—Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2024
Verb
The number of idled wells soars too, as companies warehouse them to avoid costly cleanup.
—Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 22 Feb. 2024
No one wants to go back to the asylums that warehoused patients in locked wards, often for decades.
—Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2024
America’s attempt to safely warehouse billions of secrets is failing from the top of the intel chain to the bottom.
—TIME, 29 Feb. 2024
These people were taken to sober living homes where they were ignored, denied counseling, warehoused and, according to court records, witnesses and one autopsy report, plied with alcohol.
—The Arizona Republic, 16 Jan. 2024
Daily deliveries of materials from Boston Spa, in Yorkshire, where almost a quarter of the library’s books are warehoused, were put on hold.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2023
Cain believes prisons can improve people, not just warehouse them.
—Frank E. Lockwood, arkansasonline.com, 11 Nov. 2023
In Washington state, a trial began on July 24 after the state's occupational safety regulator said that at three Amazon warehouses the ergonomics and pace of work, combined with the company’s discipline system, elevated the risk of developing musculoskeletal disorders.
—WIRED, 16 Aug. 2023
Patchett suggests that in these timeless locales, with their renewable springs of ghostly personae, characters can safely warehouse past versions of themselves and others.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
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“Warehouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/warehouse. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.
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