CAVITY in a Sentence

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13 example sentences for CAVITY, such as:

1. A small black cavity opened beneath it.
2. Put herbs inside the body cavity of the fish.
3. What is a cavity in a tooth? Why do they drill it?
4. Through this incision, the abdominal cavity is distended with carbon dioxide gas.
5. A large cavity in the rock had been rudely fitted to answer the purposes of many apartments.

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 Meanings and Examples of CAVITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cavity
 n.  hole; cavern; hollow area within the body
Classic Sentence:
1  And what is still more, for many feet after emerging from the brain's cavity, the spinal cord remains of an undecreasing girth, almost equal to that of the brain.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
2  When they were in the low cavity that surrounded the earthen fort on three sides, they found that passage nearly choked by the ruins.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
3  A large cavity in the rock had been rudely fitted to answer the purposes of many apartments.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
4  The plaster which should have filled this cavity was missing, and by mounting on the commode, a view could be had through this aperture into the Jondrettes' attic.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE
5  Fragments which had fallen from the elephant's back into his belly had filled up the cavity, so that it was possible to walk upon it as on a floor.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
6  The torch, which had been replaced in its cavity in the pavement, had just been extinguished.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NO...
7  At the end of an hour the stone was extricated from the wall, leaving a cavity a foot and a half in diameter.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
8  A small black cavity opened beneath it.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
9  The commencement of the tuberculous process we are not, as you are aware, able to define; till there are cavities, there is nothing definite.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
10  The book was the Gospel, and the white thing with the lamp inside was a human skull with its cavities and teeth.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III
Example Sentence:
1  Through this incision, the abdominal cavity is distended with carbon dioxide gas.
2  Put herbs inside the body cavity of the fish.
3  What is a cavity in a tooth? Why do they drill it?