Examples of cave-in in a Sentence
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The cave-in appeared to be several inches deep, based on the impact of the front tires of the truck that sank into the street.
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Paula Wethington, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
Within 20 minutes of digging in the sand pit, fire personnel pulled Watts from the cave-in.
—Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 14 Jan. 2026
Lions’ final four: at L.A. Rams (10-3), vs. Pittsburgh (7-6), at Minnesota (5-8), at Chicago (9-4)
No. 9 Tampa Bay (7-7): The Bucs suffered a major cave-in Thursday night against Atlanta, blowing a 14-point lead against a penalty-prone opponent.
—Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 12 Dec. 2025
Robots with physical intelligence might someday help firefighters locate people trapped in burning buildings, find miners after a cave-in, and provide valuable situational awareness information to emergency response teams in the aftermath of natural disasters, Rus says.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Dec. 2025
Kobolds can just as often decide to be harmful, however, causing accidents, cave-ins, and rockslides for reasons of their own.
—Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
The cave-in covered an area roughly 100 feet long and 26 feet high, trapping the workers and cutting off communication.
—Lauren Liebhaber
updated July 25, Miami Herald, 25 July 2025
The cave-in occurred between the tunnel boring machine 5 miles from the entrance and the construction workers who were working 6 miles in.
—Bradford Betz, FOXNews.com, 10 July 2025
For 17 days in 1925, the Western Kentucky man unwittingly ballooned into an unexpected media sensation, when a cave-in trapped him by his feet in a dark muddy pool 80 feet into a cavern.
—Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
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Paula Wethington, CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
Within 20 minutes of digging in the sand pit, fire personnel pulled Watts from the cave-in.
—Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 14 Jan. 2026
Lions’ final four: at L.A. Rams (10-3), vs. Pittsburgh (7-6), at Minnesota (5-8), at Chicago (9-4)
No. 9 Tampa Bay (7-7): The Bucs suffered a major cave-in Thursday night against Atlanta, blowing a 14-point lead against a penalty-prone opponent.
—Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 12 Dec. 2025
Robots with physical intelligence might someday help firefighters locate people trapped in burning buildings, find miners after a cave-in, and provide valuable situational awareness information to emergency response teams in the aftermath of natural disasters, Rus says.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Dec. 2025
Kobolds can just as often decide to be harmful, however, causing accidents, cave-ins, and rockslides for reasons of their own.
—Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
The cave-in covered an area roughly 100 feet long and 26 feet high, trapping the workers and cutting off communication.
—Lauren Liebhaber
updated July 25, Miami Herald, 25 July 2025
The cave-in occurred between the tunnel boring machine 5 miles from the entrance and the construction workers who were working 6 miles in.
—Bradford Betz, FOXNews.com, 10 July 2025
For 17 days in 1925, the Western Kentucky man unwittingly ballooned into an unexpected media sensation, when a cave-in trapped him by his feet in a dark muddy pool 80 feet into a cavern.
—Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
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