Examples of cavern in a Sentence

Noun a cavern with beautiful stalactites

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Ryder and the PAW Patrol discover a secret treasure map while on a mission to rescue Cap’n Turbot from a mysterious cavern. — The Courier-Journal, 15 July 2022 Their hope is that more people can experience it—no matter what happens to the historic cavern. — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2022 A year later, Fuller built a wooden dance floor and installed some of the city’s first electric lights in the cavern, creating a popular entertainment destination. — Wired, 10 July 2022 In addition to zip lining and aerial ropes, the cavern also offers a historic tram tour and a 90-minute walking tour. — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 23 June 2022 Each attack has left scars throughout the city, from the ruins of the Roman Forum to the cavern of the Circus Maximus where chariots once raced. — Barbie Latza Nadeau With Hada Messia, CNN, 19 June 2022 Not a man cave, mind you, where heat from adjacent men is a constant threat, but an actual cavern. — Eli Burnstein, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022 The afternoon progressed quickly: in the engineering room, a dark cavern full of pipes and machines, Sammie and a group of children in white and brown robes studied the schematics of the ship. — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022 One of the main anchors had been a 200,000 square foot Sears — now a dark, empty cavern waiting to be repurposed. — Greg Petro, Forbes, 6 May 2022 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb In the hunt, scientists have erected detectors in a South Dakota cavern a mile underground, at the bottom of Lake Baikal in Siberia, under a mountain in Japan, and on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea. — Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 12 July 2018 See More

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History and Etymology for cavern

Noun

Middle English caverne, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin caverna "hollow space, crevice, tree hole, cave," from cavus "hollow, sunken" + -erna, noun-forming suffix of uncertain origin — more at hole entry 1

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