noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
coal cellar
salt cellar
storm cellar
wine cellar
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
salt
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His brother Gawain ignored him, gazing at the salt cellar or the window for minutes at a time and stolidly chewing.
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Later, in the café, we put the flag into the salt cellar and waited.
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A sign of taking too much salt is if you find it difficult to remove the salt cellar from the table.
wine
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The royal palace was splendid and reputedly contained a large wine cellar .
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She suggested a toast, and while he went to the wine cellar , she put the powder in her cup.
■ NOUN
bar
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Raffles A lounge cellar bar with a relaxed atmosphere and a real coal fire.
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There is a lounge, T.V. room, table tennis, cellar bar , large sauna, solarium and steam bath.
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There is a small cellar bar , a sun terrace, a large garden and small heated outdoor swimming pool.
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Downstairs is a Tyrolean-style bowling alley and cellar bar .
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There is a new tennis court and, new for 1992, an open air swimming pool and cellar bar .
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She was prevented from entering by people surfacing from the cellar bar .
coal
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They often drag down members of their family into their coal cellar of degradation as they fuel the fires of self destruction.
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Wes's greatest triumph was undoubtedly the time he removed the grating from the coal cellar outside Skeldale House.
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Otherwise the attic or the coal cellar had to suffice, but concealment had been the fashion.
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I had lights put in the coal cellar and wash house too while he was at it.
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It might seem a bit like looking for a black cat in a coal cellar .
door
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There were three loud knocks on the cellar door .
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People say I mistook the cellar door for the wine closet.
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When they start to unpack, they find they can't get the cellar door open.
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He was sitting directly above the cellar door , close enough to the kitchen door to hear their angry words.
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Antoinette locked the cellar door and flung the key on the table.
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Hard draught from under cellar door .
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They heard a sound at the cellar door .
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Also in here she kept the key to the cellar door .
■ VERB
find
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Their collective mood had found its cellar , a malaise like a ladder they had descended rung by rung.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Down in the cellar Broadman looked up, muttered to himself, and carried on with his work.
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Finally, he had to hide her in a cellar .
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Have everything brought in and taken down to the cellar .
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He announces that there are invisible demons in the cellar , and that they claim that the house is legally theirs.
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His brother Gawain ignored him, gazing at the salt cellar or the window for minutes at a time and stolidly chewing.
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I'd like them shown into the cellar , please.
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She'd lain for two days on the cellar floor.
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There were three loud knocks on the cellar door.