How to Use cavern in a Sentence

cavern

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  • When Emma yawns, Hardy spies the wet cavern of her mouth.
    — Lyndall Gordon, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
  • On the lower ground floor is a cavern-style bar along with a gym, sauna and wine stores.
    — Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 6 Apr. 2020
  • The cavern of The PreServer’s winking lights looked like the night sky.
    — Lexi Pandell, Wired, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The speaker at the center of that cavern is a metallic gold, and the body comes in either white or black.
    — WIRED, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The people, whose ages ranged from their 20s to the 70s, said Paxton, were placed in a hotel room inside the cavern for the night.
    — Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic, 25 Oct. 2022
  • In fact, some in the king’s fleet, including the king himself, are thought to be still trapped in a cavern on those lands.
    — Jack Butler, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The ground collapsed under it, causing the rig to fall into the cavern.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Webs hugged the cavern walls, and spider egg sacks hung from above like cocoons.
    — Elise Favis, Washington Post, 30 July 2020
  • Take a dip in the pool beneath the shade of leafy trees and enjoy a wine tasting in the cavern with meats and cheeses from nearby farms.
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The cavern opens to the north, where a cold and powerful wind known as the mistral breathes dust under the rock shelter.
    — New York Times, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The dark, thumping cavern of an MRI scanner can be a lonely place.
    — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Inside the cavern, the trio find a hole under the cave river, and John B. and Sarah dive inside to take a closer look.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 25 Feb. 2023
  • An oceanside cavern dubbed Thunder Hole explodes with a plume of foamy surf as waves beat the shore.
    — Sarah Rose, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2023
  • In a cavern, Rani comes across a mound made up of a bubbly, gelatinous substance — the eponymous gunk of the title.
    — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Make sure to check out the wine cellar, which was built into a cavern of lava from an eruption in 1226.
    — Michelle Stansbury, Marie Claire, 23 Sep. 2021
  • As the first rays of moonlight spill across the cavern, the paintings on the walls seem to dull in detail and intensity; the colors drain, and the lines fade.
    — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Led by rangers, the tours journey through fjords, volcanoes, caverns and coral reefs.
    — Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 20 Mar. 2020
  • The cavern is about one hour northeast of Kingman and lies within a private park.
    — Angela Cordoba Perez, The Arizona Republic, 25 Oct. 2022
  • While drilling in the area to extract natural gas, the rig punched into a massive cavern of gas.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 23 Jan. 2022
  • The caverns, rooms of the cave and geologic formations formed along a major crack in the stone.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The draw of Goblin's Lair is the 90-foot drop into a dark and cool cavern that requires canyoneering and rappelling skills.
    — Gabi De La Rosa, Chron, 10 Feb. 2023
  • There’s a small cavern for a student section and a few rows of bleachers that roll out, seating about 450.
    — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
  • The cavern had been dubbed Pinwheel Cave after the swirling red painting on its curved ceiling.
    — Frans Lanting, National Geographic, 25 Nov. 2020
  • According to the study, the cavern reaches a maximum depth of around 82 feet.
    — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2021
  • Jeffrey fled his enslaver in the early 1800s and hid for about a month in a cavern notched into a shoreline cliff.
    — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
  • To kick things off, a glass-front elevator will take you down some 260 feet into the heart of the striking cavern.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 23 Feb. 2023
  • One of the most important ones is the Cenote Zaci, which is a deep cavern with ancient stalactites.
    — Christin Parcerisa Vigueras, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2023
  • His approval ratings are so low as to be lodged in a subterranean salt cavern of their own.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 27 July 2022
  • Ariel is as curious as ever, collecting her knick-knacks to keep in her crystal cavern.
    — Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Last year, one person died after a boat capsized during a tour of a historic underground cavern system in Lockport, New York.
    — USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024

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