How to Use cavernous in a Sentence

cavernous

adjective
  • The dance was held in a cavernous hall.
  • We toured the cavernous airplane hangar.
  • The gym sounds cavernous and thoughts echo in your mind.
    Shakeia Taylor, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • That doesn’t mean the home feels like a cavernous loft by any means.
    Carlos Mota, ELLE Decor, 7 July 2023
  • The room was cavernous and empty.
    Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
  • 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
  • Its owners also play old movies on the back wall of the cavernous space.
    Michelle Matthews | [email protected], al, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The cavernous chamber looked like something out of a sci-fi movie.
    Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2021
  • The best views in the cavernous room are from a second-floor lookout spot.
    Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The atrium is cavernous with echoes, and reporters could not hear.
    cleveland, 2 May 2020
  • There were lots of other young men there, milling around the cavernous living room.
    Colton Haynes, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The coop is empty and cavernous, the air still heavy with the stench of chicken waste.
    Suzy Khimm, NBC news, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Halfway down the street, there’s a cavernous black modern box.
    Time, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Ethan’s stealthy moves through the cavernous fuselage play almost like a silent movie.
    Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2025
  • 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
  • Two average-size adults will be fine in the back seat, but no one will call it cavernous.
    Tom Voelk, New York Times, 12 July 2018
  • 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 chamber meets in a cavernous room with velvet curtains and a musty scent.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • All of this is in the cavernous atrium, the cathedral or grotto space.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Who shall enter the cavernous maw of our fair stadium next?
    Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 27 June 2026
  • The cavernous rib cages of rotting camels were a grim new landscape feature.
    National Geographic, 19 June 2020
  • The building is so cavernous that even the tour guides got lost showing reporters around.
    USA Today, 12 Nov. 2019
  • The backpack style is awesome for walk-in hunters, and the inside is cavernous.
    Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 16 Nov. 2020
  • The sound of dozens of handcuffs being unhitched echoed through the cavernous room.
    Leif Wenar, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The eight troops set the casket down inside the cavernous aircraft.
    Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Bonus points for the cavernous hood and large internal drop pockets.
    Kelly Bastone, Outside, 10 Feb. 2026
  • But the venue was too cavernous, and no one complained when the schools agreed to go back to on-campus venues.
    Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 15 Nov. 2025
  • The apartment was cavernous and right above a corner drugstore.
    Marc Myers, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2018
  • 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 cavernous lobby is quiet and dimly lit.
    Rob Stein, NPR, 4 Mar. 2026

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