The first place I lived in was in West Kensington, this dingy old basement flat.

After the officers descended an unlighted staircase, they entered a "dark, dingy basement, with one light bulb hanging from a wire," he said.

Leopold is the mysterious and clever cat who guards the dingy basement.

More recently, he relocated the Schools Canteen from dingy basement to gleaming mezzanine and at the time of his death had nearly completed his greatest coup.

From here, it is a long walk down seemingly endless staircases to the dingy basement.

In this dim, dingy basement, they rise high above anything they have known outside, even as their gutter expressions are lifted toward poetry on their passion.

In a rarely used room in a dingy basement.

Just as he liked to explore derelict houses or dingy basements, so he could never resist delving into mysteries secreted away in hidden corners of reality.

A Bronx girl's trip to a dingy basement to fetch a load of freshly washed laundry for her mother cost her her life yesterday, the police said.

She recalls standing in a dingy basement of an elderly woman's house, explaining the mechanics of something when the woman stopped her in midconversation.