How to Use cave in a Sentence

cave

1 of 2 noun

• Kentucky's Mammoth Cave is actually a series of large chambers on five levels.
• Paved paths with lights were added to many areas of the cave.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2023
• But for me, the gypsum caves were more of a place for mourning.
  — Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
• The team reproduced this method in a nearby cave made of the same type of rock.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
• The cave is in the Taurus Mountains in the southern part of Turkey.
  — Aziz Akyavas, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2023
• But some also are concerned for those who’ve lived in the caves.
  — Trevor Morgan, Sacramento Bee, 2 Feb. 2024
• Some light scrambling over slick rocks is required to reach the cave floor.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 15 Aug. 2023
• What about the famous cave art found in many sites in Europe and elsewhere?
  — Tim Vernimmen, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023
• The 100-acre park started as the site of a natural limestone cave.
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 2 May 2024
• The group mounts cameras in caves where pups are born and records civilian sightings.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
• There were discussions about bringing her out of the cave.
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2024
• The park’s namesake cave runs more than 400 miles under the earth's surface — and that’s just the part that has been explored and mapped.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2023
• But that doesn’t mean the cave’s ancient mysteries have all been solved.
  — Brandy Schillace, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2023
• Go out and wander: Trace the makings of clothing from the comfort of … a Himalayan salt cave.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023
• Most people are still cleaving to Trump like Tiberian bats in a cave.
  — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2024
• Visitors can catch glimpses of the blind, nearly translucent fish who call the dark cave home.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Apr. 2023
• Glenn’s sister held her wedding reception in one of the caves in 1960.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
• Thai Navy Seals entered the cave to help and hang out with the boys as rescuers planned how to extricate them safely.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2023
• Binder clips and bungee cords aren't required but can help stabilize their igloo, cave, or palace.
  — Michelle Crouch, Parents, 14 Nov. 2023
• The cave-dwelling bat is found widely across Africa and many past outbreaks have been traced back to people working in mines where the bats live.
  — Robert Hart, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Above them, protected by a low chain-link fence and shrouded in branches, was a small mossy cave.
  — Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• In March 2007 some wildlife biologists drove out to a cave near Albany, New York, to count bats.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
• Guests can climb into the cave, using narrow wooden stairs that have been built there.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
• The cave is in Cadereyta, Querétaro, which is a city about 150 miles northwest of Mexico City.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 25 Jan. 2024
• The cave itself is opened just once a year in a special ceremony.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 16 Apr. 2024
• Off to the side of the large cave was a narrow passage accessed by rope leading farther into the mountain.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 12 Dec. 2023
• Eventually, the land above the underground space caves in, the USGS says.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2023
• Bears have been up to these kinds of high jinks for as long as people have been building houses, or maybe since people and bears fought over the same caves.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• Once inside, kids can explore caves, take short hikes on volcanic terrain and feel the warmth from a steaming bluff.
  — Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping, 29 Mar. 2023
• Larry had four fluffy chicks several weeks ago in a nest at a hidden oceanfront cave on the side of the island, away from the famed former prison.
  — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 3 May 2024

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cave

2 of 2 verb

• But the roof caved in and the side of the house was burned.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• The inn’s roof caved in at about 1:30 a.m., the chamber said.
  — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
• Ahmed Ali said he was jarred by the noise of the floors caving in.
  — Kerry Burke, Rocco Parascandola, Janon Fisher, Michael Gartland, Ellen Moynihan New York Daily News (tns), al, 26 Jan. 2023
• The walls of the barracks had crumbled, their roofs caved in.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
• The blaze, the website said, got out of control, causing the roof and floor to cave in.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 11 May 2022
• The house was sagging and the roof was beginning to cave.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 3 Nov. 2022
• The roof in her bathroom had caved in from an ice storm, and a trash bag covered the opening.
  — Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
• The earth didn't cave in, and everyone's having a great time.
  — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2023
• In the Old Testament, Ephron was a man who sold his field and cave to Abraham.
  — Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day, 4 Mar. 2021
• Instead of backing the board and me, the U.S. government caved.
  — Nina Jankowicz, Foreign Affairs, 7 Feb. 2024
• Above, the roof has caved in multiple times and light from the sky comes through a gaping hole behind the pump.
  — Sara Sidner, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
• Over pressure caved in our forward dome and damaged the rig.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 29 June 2023
• The tire hit the Chevrolet Malibu on the driver's side windshield and roof, causing the roof to cave in and hit the driver in the head.
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2024
• Make sure your knees line up with your ankles and don’t cave inward.
  — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 24 Aug. 2022
• Milwaukee didn’t cave in to the Phoenix Suns’ trade demands and held the line with their offer of spare parts.
  — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• Many who wrote emails in support of the sign urged the library not to cave to critics, and to keep working with Bay Bridge.
  — Eddie Morales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 July 2021
• Haniyeh said Hamas would not cave to the pressure leveled by the strike on his family.
  — Tia Goldenberg, arkansasonline.com, 11 Apr. 2024
• But then there was this big crack in the walls and leakage from above us and then the roof started to cave in and the ceiling started to sink.
  — Danny Nguyen, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2024
• Friends advised him to flee the town for his own safety, but Dezinho refused to cave in to the threats.
  — Richard Schiffman, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2023
• At parks that meant tents caved in with snowfall and trees blocking access roads.
  — oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2023
• The district canceled school whenever a few inches of snow fell for fear the roofs would cave in.
  — Becca Savransky, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2023
• Caving isn’t good, of course, but your reasons for caving are.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2024
• The Aztecs were too good a team to cave and an over-pursuing defense is what triggered the late run to within five.
  — Eddie Pells, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2023
• The center will cave in, leaving room for a little liquid.
  — Sharyn Jackson Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 7 Aug. 2020
• If the roof did eventually cave in, the congregation would have to pay even more for the cleanup.
  — Dallas News, 3 Nov. 2022
• The upstairs was left empty and now the window sashes appear ready to cave in, and the gray paint, what’s left of it, is peeling.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 14 Aug. 2021
• But in the chaos of Friday, many people were lucky and managed to escape from their homes as debris caved in.
  — Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2023
• Don’t let your knees cave inward like a baby giraffe on ice.
  — Andrew Coates, Men's Health, 20 Dec. 2022
• By this point, the chest compressions may have caved in the patient’s sternum, his ribs shattered.
  — Helen Ouyang, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
• They are supposed to live with the fear that, at any minute, the universe is going to cave in and all their dreams will be reduced to rubble and dust.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024