CAVE in a Sentence

Learn CAVE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

133 example sentences for CAVE, such as:

1. My dog nosed game out in a cave.
2. The cave is difficult of access.
3. The shot echoed through the cave.
4. There is water in the interior of the cave.
5. I'd crawl somewhere to a cave, and slink there.

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 Meanings and Examples of CAVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cave
 v.  hollow out as if making a cave or opening
 v.  explore natural caves
Classic Sentence: (107 in 8 pages)
1  There was a scuffle of feet and a dark figure emerged from the cave of the front hall.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  Thus to the young Sappho spake the melon-venders; thus the captains to Zenobia; and in the damp cave over gnawed bones the hairy suitor thus protested to the woman advocate of matriarchy.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  As well might those tablets stand in the cave of Elephanta as here.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
4  Besides, argued I, fasting makes the body cave in; hence the spirit caves in; and all thoughts born of a fast must necessarily be half-starved.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.
5  Most of them were against it; but at length, in obedience to Steelkilt, they preceded him down into their dark den, growlingly disappearing, like bears into a cave.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
6  I'd crawl somewhere to a cave, and slink there.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
7  'If they're nice people, I hate to think of them spending the winter in that cave of Krajiek's,' said grandmother.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
8  This cabin was his hermitage until the winter snows penned him in his cave.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
9  But they were so glad to get away from their ugly cave and their mother's scolding that they begged me to go on and on, as far as Russian Peter's house.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
10  The air in the cave was stifling, and it was very dark, too.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
11  In the rear wall was another little cave; a round hole, not much bigger than an oil barrel, scooped out in the black earth.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
12  When Mrs. Shimerda opened the bag and stirred the contents with her hand, it gave out a salty, earthy smell, very pungent, even among the other odours of that cave.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
13  Ambrosch was out with the ox-team, trying to break a road, and the women-folks was shut up tight in their cave.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
14  I slipped out from the cave and looked at Mr. Shimerda.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVI
15  It stood directly in front of their old cave, which they used as a cellar.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  The cave is difficult of access.
2  As the house is to the man, so is the nest to the bird and the cave to the animal.
3  There is water in the interior of the cave.
4  The weight of the snow caused the roof of the cabin to cave in.
5  My dog nosed game out in a cave.
6  The machine was used in a cave near the sea-shore where - it is said - pirates used to hide gold.
7  Heedless of time or any other consideration, they began to search the underwater cave.
8  The echoes of his scream sounded in the cave for several seconds.
9  The shot echoed through the cave.
10  Almost a hundred people will perish in the cave unless we find them in 72 hours.
11  We discovered a vestige of early Indian life in the cave.
12  A mouse ran out from the dark orifice of the cave.
13  This cave was used by smugglersin the eighteenth century.
14  You fetch them to the cave, and you're always as polite as pie to them; and by and by they fall in love with you, and never want to go home any more.
15  About a fortnight after Tom's rescue from the cave, he started off to visit Huck, who had grown plenty strong enough, now, to hear exciting talk, and Tom had some that would interest him, he thought.