How to Use caving in a Sentence

caving

noun
  • But Xi shows no sign of caving and may use rare earths as a bargaining chip.
    David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 10 June 2019
  • This is wild caving, where the underground world reveals its raw, primal state.
    Heide Brandes, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Spelunkers can also take a more adventurous off-trail caving tour.
    oregonlive, 3 June 2021
  • Acceding to Patrick’s demand, which some might see as caving and a display of weakness.
    Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 26 May 2021
  • Learn to quahog, hang glide, experience salt caving, walk on the beach or in the forest, read a book, ride a bike — try something new each time.
    Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2024
  • In the small but close-knit caving community, one of the most sacrosanct rules is that whoever discovers the cave gets to name it.
    Lilit Marcus, CNN, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Another raises the question of subsidence, which relates to the caving in or sinking of land.
    Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2025
  • Day or overnight tours can include camping, fishing, swimming, caving, and/or sightseeing.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 23 June 2022
  • For Mills, nothing beats the unfettered connection caving has to nature.
    Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2026
  • Professional caving means entering a world more dangerous than any well-trod tourist cavern.
    Rob Verger, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2020
  • How to start wild caving safely Wild caving requires proper preparation and guidance.
    Heide Brandes, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
  • To really ramp up the adventure, there are summertime off-trail caving tours, where guides will show you routes that involve lots of crawling and squeezing.
    Nicole Clausing, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Also, over the last few seasons ice caving has become popular in the Interior.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Her favorites include rafting, kayaking, biking, caving, diving and rock climbing.
    Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Does Pat Riley look bad caving in and giving Bam Adebayo a max extension?
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 12 June 2021
  • Here, travelers can partake in some unique adventure activities, from wild caving to pine nut gathering.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 6 June 2024
  • But some national caving rescue experts are weighing in, hypothesizing about how the cave’s conditions could have helped the group.
    Jaclyn Reiss, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2018
  • But their political push -- a bid to pressure the holdout senator into caving -- only further invoked his ire.
    Arkansas Online, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Remember this unhappiness as what caving will always produce.
    Carolyn Hax, The Mercury News, 7 May 2017
  • Rick Haley, a caving enthusiast who happened to be nearby, overheard that a dog was found inside the cave and needed rescuing.
    Cathy Free, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Boshoff, a caving specialist, expanded his team to include Rick Hunter and Steven Tucker.
    Lydia Pyne, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2018
  • But the professor, Shimon Wdowinski, cautioned against blaming the collapse on the caving ground.
    BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2021
  • LogoPowered byScale logo Some are calling it a compromise, others a caving-in.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Dickey said caving shows how well the international community can work together.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The growing appeal of wild caving reflects travelers’ hunger for authentic experiences.
    Heide Brandes, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The Descent One year after a tragic accident, six girlfriends meet in a remote part of the Appalachians for their annual caving trip.
    Caitlin White, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The best caving sinks beneath North Alabama, where limestone has eroded away, leaving underground caverns, streams, and even waterfalls.
    Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 12 June 2017
  • Rick Haley was at a caving project in Perry County in southeastern Missouri with other cave divers when one group discovered the missing dog.
    Cristian Santana, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Heavy rains in the fall mean the best caving months are February through August, and swimming is ideal in late summer when river temperatures are around 80 degrees.
    Patrick Scott, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2018
  • The copper, which lies 7,000 feet below ground level, would be mined using a method known as block cave mining, or panel caving, which would leave a giant sinkhole where Oak Flat now stands.
    Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2021

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