How to Use cavernous in a Sentence

cavernous

adjective
  • The dance was held in a cavernous hall.
  • We toured the cavernous airplane hangar.
  • The venues might be cavernous, but the prices are small.
    — Will Noble, CNN, 23 Nov. 2024
  • On most nights, there’s a live band on the small stage in the far side of the cavernous room.
    — Sabra Ayres, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
  • That doesn’t mean the home feels like a cavernous loft by any means.
    — Carlos Mota, ELLE Decor, 7 July 2023
  • Hours before the show, the club feels sleepy and cavernous.
    — Ernesto Lechner, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
  • On the left is the Minotaur Room, its cavernous mouth the focal point.
    — Max Olesker, Longreads, 13 July 2023
  • The survivors are brought to a re-creation of the cavernous prison-dorm and burst out in cheers.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The sound, even in the cavernous, closed-roof Globe Life Field, was flawless.
    — Stefan Stevenson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 June 2024
  • The cavernous space has ample legroom for taller adults.
    — Matthew Askari, Car and Driver, 28 June 2022
  • The best views in the cavernous room are from a second-floor lookout spot.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Its owners also play old movies on the back wall of the cavernous space.
    — Michelle Matthews | Mmatthews@al.com, al, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The sound of dozens of handcuffs being unhitched echoed through the cavernous room.
    — Leif Wenar, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2024
  • We were taken to a cold, cavernous warehouse by the Navy Yard.
    — Barbara Demick, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2019
  • All of this is in the cavernous atrium, the cathedral or grotto space.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Sep. 2021
  • The backpack style is awesome for walk-in hunters, and the inside is cavernous.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 16 Nov. 2020
  • The eight troops set the casket down inside the cavernous aircraft.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The cavernous chamber looked like something out of a sci-fi movie.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Halfway down the street, there’s a cavernous black modern box.
    — Time, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The wider Allanté, on the other hand, is cavernous, a room with two chairs in it.
    — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The atrium is cavernous with echoes, and reporters could not hear.
    — cleveland, 2 May 2020
  • The chamber meets in a cavernous room with velvet curtains and a musty scent.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • There were lots of other young men there, milling around the cavernous living room.
    — Colton Haynes, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The odor of cannabis wafted up the back stairs toward the cavernous, second-floor newsroom.
    — Daniel Golden, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2023
  • At the center of the carrier, like a cavernous metal stomach, is the hangar deck.
    — Will Knight, WIRED, 25 July 2023
  • In the cavernous main space, enormous windows bring in tons of light and provide dreamy views over the mountains and oceans.
    — Mark David, Robb Report, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The living area was dark, cavernous and had the stale, smoky, over-warm atmosphere of a casino.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The cavernous Dena’ina center holds up to 9,000 people.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The cavernous coffee shop is great for people-watching.
    — Akash Kapur, Travel + Leisure, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The following year, the cavernous indoor ballroom was built.
    — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025

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