How to Use cage in a Sentence

cage

1 of 2 noun

• Our body is like the cage, and the spirit is like the bird.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2023
• The big spot came in the form of a superplex from the top of the cage.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 4 Feb. 2023
• The image was of him in a cage, on a trailer, on a clay pan in the desert.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2023
• The peppers were in cages and the fabric rested over the cages.
  — oregonlive, 5 Aug. 2023
• It was very neatly kept, but there was a cage over the grave.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2024
• The researcher closed the door behind them, then opened the rats’ large cage.
  — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
• Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg can’t seem to agree on whether and when to duke it out in a cage match.
  — Eric Sylvers, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2023
• When Smoak opened the front door the cage was still outside, but Dino was gone.
  — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Feb. 2024
• This is part of what Kara-Murza said, from the defendant’s cage: . . .
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 June 2023
• But for Ali, their one-bedroom apartment on the 42nd floor feels like a cage.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 20 Nov. 2023
• With the goats wiped out and the tortoises in cages, the ecosystem transformed once again.
  — Syris Valentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
• Video with her face blurred showed the woman standing in a metal cage in the court.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2024
• Block planned to stay on guard and pull the string whenever the peacock entered the cage.
  — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
• Tuesday morning, the woman walked into the store, this time with the bird in a cage.
  — Warren Kulo | [e-mail], al, 10 May 2023
• Unlike Danny, Carolyn left the cage open with the bag missing while the rest of the tribe was off on a walk.
  — Erica Thompson, The Enquirer, 9 Mar. 2023
• If your phone rings, your Faraday cage isn't thick enough.
  — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
• Then and now, there is no lid for hip hop’s sound, no cage for its platinum growl.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 7 Aug. 2023
• She’s even helped a family find a cage for a guinea pig in need of a proper home.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
• Claims that Torres forced his son to sleep in a cage and eat feces are not true, James said.
  — Tracy Neal, Arkansas Online, 16 Feb. 2023
• The group breathed in an out, and then walked over a few feet toward the two wooden cages with 17 white birds inside.
  — Jimena Tavel, Miami Herald, 14 Feb. 2024
• The final product was equipped with a soft iron cage to protect the movement.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 15 May 2023
• With its three teardrop cages, it is guaranteed to make a statement in your home.
  — Anna Smoot, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2024
• Dogs and cats should arrive in a clean cage or carrier.
  — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
• Burglars pried open the door just before 11 p.m. and went straight to the cages where her most valuable birds were sleeping.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2023
• In a tiger vs bear cage match where neither could escape, the tiger would probably kill the bear and eat him.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 21 Feb. 2024
• An anti-drone cage likewise works best against drones that drop grenades.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
• The room is full of men and women gathered around netted cages with padded landing mats.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2023
• When sprays are needed, plants on a trellis or in a cage are easier to treat.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2023
• So the monkeys remain at Charles River—in cages at a lab, but not used as lab monkeys.
  — Erika Fry, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024
• The first two cages rotate together every 30 seconds, and the third every 60 seconds.
  — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 9 Apr. 2024

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cage

2 of 2 verb

• But this doesn’t have to feel like a Mandy Moore caged shark fight to the death.
  — Ruby Warrington and Alexandra Roxo, Teen Vogue, 24 June 2017
• Jose is caged in this house that his U.S. salary helped build.
  — Leighton Akio Woodhouse, The Intercept, 21 May 2017
• Both fly for free and are not required to be caged during the flight.
  — CBS News, 19 Jan. 2018
• There’s now no way to tell whether a bag of kopi luwak was made from wild or caged civets.
  — National Geographic, 29 Apr. 2016
• Each plant’s roots had to be caged to protect them from gophers.
  — Stephanie Strom, New York Times, 26 May 2017
• Five other dogs were caged in the main house, unable to get to water.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 27 Aug. 2017
• In July, climbers cage the cones of those trees to foil the Clark’s nutcracker.
  — Jim Morrison, Wired, 24 Dec. 2020
• Bergdahl, 31, has said he was caged, kept in darkness and beaten.
  — Bloomberg.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• Naron said the animal was not caged or on a leash and was being shown to tour guests.
  — Ken Ritter, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2019
• The chimps were caged in a trailer lot and at a primate sanctuary.
  — CBS News, 8 June 2017
• Some of the animals were caged, while others roamed freely, Binz wrote.
  — Leah Asmelash and Tina Burnside, CNN, 23 Oct. 2019
• But the judiciary says that child migrants have a right not to be caged, at all.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 21 June 2018
• There’s the one in Lincoln Heights, who does not want to be caged in her apartment and yet feels ill at ease outside of it.
  — Brittny Mejia, www.latimes.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Meanwhile Bella went the vampy route in a black lambskin coat, black pumps and caged studded gloves.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Oct. 2017
• The dog jumped into the seat after the officer tried to coax him into the back of the vehicle, which was caged.
  — Kristin Lam, USA TODAY, 16 June 2019
• The officer talked to the canines’ owners, who said the animals, which were caged, got through a fence.
  — John Benson, cleveland.com, 26 June 2019
• Eleven adult dogs were found inside a main house, with some caged together.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 31 July 2023
• Sometimes, that equipment fails, and that person is thrust into a tiny, caged space, face to face with a great white shark.
  — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 14 Oct. 2016
• For some kids, being caged up in such a world only deepened their fears and their hatred.
  — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• Bristol City were caged into their own third of the pitch and - not for the want of trying - just couldn't get out during the opening exchanges.
  — SI.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• The kidnappers sped off with the children caged in their mobile prisons.
  — David Begnaud, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2019
• The kidnappers sped off with the children caged in those mobile prisons.
  — David Begnaud, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2023
• While these hens are not caged, roaming space may be limited.
  — Darlene Zimmerman, Detroit Free Press, 22 Apr. 2018
• Today, Trump decided the solution is to cage them for longer.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2019
• At night, when the chickens are sleeping, crews of chicken catchers round them up, grabbing four in each hand and caging them as the birds peck and scratch and defecate.
  — Michael Grabell, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
• Listen especially to the repartee of a man and a woman caged together in a hellish union.
  — Lyndall Gordon, New York Times, 17 May 2018
• Including the escape of 140 ‘foreign caged birds’ during a gale in Monmouthshire, Wales.
  — Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• First of all, what Trump is trying to do is compare parts of Baltimore with people being caged along the border.
  — Washington Post, 27 July 2019
• Luckily for Buttermilk, she won’t be caged in for much longer.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2017
• The chain-link fence caging the property symbolized Livia’s chilly, repellent nature.
  — Anna Kodé, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024