How to Use cavernous in a Sentence

cavernous

adjective

• The dance was held in a cavernous hall.
• We toured the cavernous airplane hangar.
• The trio of heroines hang out on cavernous space stations, travel to outlandish planets and encounter hordes of cat-like aliens.
  — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
• On the main floor, cavernous rooms now feature huge arched windows overlooking private terraces, pools, and the sea.
  — Bebe Howorth, ELLE Decor, 23 Feb. 2021
• Inside the cavernous space, the dusty floor is buckling, the brown wash sinks look battered, and the aging furniture aches for replacement.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2021
• To shrink the space of the otherwise cavernous cathedral, Bucko had arranged a semicircle of several dozen chairs in front of the altar.
  — Fred Bahnson, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
• Video footage clandestinely taken by a worker inside Golden Lead reveals a cavernous space—dusty, hot, and dark.
  — Ian Urbina, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
• The cavernous main gallery is a maze of shadows and imitation mud walls, where masks look out from between oversized photographs of tropical vegetation.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
• The cavernous third floor has been transformed into the ultimate hangout for Hinnant Ferguson and her daughter, Elle.
  — Lauren Jones, House Beautiful, 11 Feb. 2021
• 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 | [e-mail], al, 19 Aug. 2021
• The sound of dozens of handcuffs being unhitched echoed through the cavernous room.
  — Leif Wenar, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2024
• All of this is in the cavernous atrium, the cathedral or grotto space.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Sep. 2021
• 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 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 sale includes the lease to the restaurant’s cavernous space, which will house three new concepts from its new owners this fall.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 13 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024