How to Use cavernous in a Sentence

cavernous

adjective
  • The dance was held in a cavernous hall.
  • We toured the cavernous airplane hangar.
  • The venues might be cavernous, but the prices are small.
    Will Noble, CNN, 23 Nov. 2024
  • 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 coop is empty and cavernous, the air still heavy with the stench of chicken waste.
    Suzy Khimm, NBC news, 21 Mar. 2025
  • 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 | Mmatthews@al.com, al, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The sound of dozens of handcuffs being unhitched echoed through the cavernous room.
    Leif Wenar, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2024
  • West, 40, asked fans, along with a photo of the inside of his cavernous house.
    Mike Miller, PEOPLE.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • We were taken to a cold, cavernous warehouse by the Navy Yard.
    Barbara Demick, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Don’t want dirty gear to soil the rest of your luggage or get lost in a cavernous duffel?
    Paige Szmodis, Popular Mechanics, 9 June 2019
  • All of this is in the cavernous atrium, the cathedral or grotto space.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Sep. 2021
  • The cavernous apartment was filled with books—seemed, to the maid, to be overflowing with them.
    Adam O’Fallon Price, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • The backpack style is awesome for walk-in hunters, and the inside is cavernous.
    Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 16 Nov. 2020
  • 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 wider Allanté, on the other hand, is cavernous, a room with two chairs in it.
    Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The atrium is cavernous with echoes, and reporters could not hear.
    cleveland, 2 May 2020
  • The chamber meets in a cavernous room with velvet curtains and a musty scent.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Rain was pouring off the roof of the venue, a cavernous arena used for rodeos, as Cruz arrived.
    Andrew Rice, Daily Intelligencer, 10 July 2018
  • There were lots of other young men there, milling around the cavernous living room.
    Colton Haynes, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Some 70% of the fresh tomatoes sold in the US today come from Mexico, where they’re grown in cavernous greenhouses across the country that allow for year-round production and a diversity of shapes, sizes, and colors.
    David Shortell, Bon Appetit Magazine, 15 July 2025
  • The team is trying to shield Altuve from cavernous outfields or playing behind extreme fly-ball pitchers, so he’s still received 25 starts at second base during his transition season.
    Chandler Rome, New York Times, 4 July 2025

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