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
Examples of warehouse in a Sentence
Noun
when the warehouse burned down, we lost most of our merchandise
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Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 17 May 2025
Not central command centers barking orders, but smart nodes—ports, warehouses, carriers—feeding real-time insights into an adaptive system.
—Shekar Natarajan, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
Will they be shackled and hooded, shuffled off to some far-away detention center and then flown to a foreign country willing to warehouse America’s politically undesirables for a hefty fee?
—Chris Brennan, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Because of a Kansas law in the 1860s that outlawed public hangings, Bates-Lamborn explained that the gallows were situated inside the warehouse, away from the view of other prisoners.
—Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 17 May 2025
Not central command centers barking orders, but smart nodes—ports, warehouses, carriers—feeding real-time insights into an adaptive system.
—Shekar Natarajan, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Verb
The idea was to pay El Salvador to warehouse the deportees in a notoriously brutal prison, but there had been an impasse in the negotiations.
—Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
Will they be shackled and hooded, shuffled off to some far-away detention center and then flown to a foreign country willing to warehouse America’s politically undesirables for a hefty fee?
—Chris Brennan, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
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“Warehouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/warehouse. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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