How to Use cavernous in a Sentence

cavernous

adjective

• The dance was held in a cavernous hall.
• We toured the cavernous airplane hangar.
• That doesn’t mean the home feels like a cavernous loft by any means.
  — Carlos Mota, ELLE Decor, 7 July 2023
• 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 cavernous space has ample legroom for taller adults.
  — Matthew Askari, Car and Driver, 28 June 2022
• The sound of dozens of handcuffs being unhitched echoed through the cavernous room.
  — Leif Wenar, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2024
• Halfway down the street, there’s a cavernous black modern box.
  — Time, 20 Sep. 2023
• The odor of cannabis wafted up the back stairs toward the cavernous, second-floor newsroom.
  — Daniel Golden, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2023
• At the center of the carrier, like a cavernous metal stomach, is the hangar deck.
  — Will Knight, WIRED, 25 July 2023
• In the cavernous main space, enormous windows bring in tons of light and provide dreamy views over the mountains and oceans.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 6 Sep. 2023
• The living area was dark, cavernous and had the stale, smoky, over-warm atmosphere of a casino.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
• Alfar and Bates, running late to a meeting, dashed across the cavernous expo floor.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2022
• True to its name, the raw-stone walls of its cavernous atrium were glowing with lines of poetry in blue neon.
  — Tony Perrottet, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2023
• Those who hadn’t lost their phones turned on lights, and the beams flickered through bed frames, casting shadows on the cavernous ceiling.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2024
• Harry entered the cavernous church in a black custom Dior three-piece suit with coattails.
  — Brian Melley, ajc, 6 May 2023
• The cave walls feature petroglyphs, which are carved into the rock, Davis told the hikers, his words echoing off the cavernous walls.
  — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
• The cavernous taproom has tables and high-tops peppered across the space, as well as free-play games like cornhole, foosball and pool.
  — Emma Balter, Chron, 28 Nov. 2022
• Charmain Carryl moved with purpose through the dim, cavernous room.
  — Chelsia Rose Marcius Lanna Apisukh, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• Players ride in golf carts through its cavernous hallways.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023
• The cavernous space on the Lower East Side where the show was held was heaving with anticipation.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2023
• We were quietly led into a corner of the cold cavernous hall to watch the silent vigil filing past.
  — Juliet Butler, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2022
• Laguardia is the best known, on account of its high walls, cobblestones, and cavernous wine cellars.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• Blues weighing 20 pounds or more have cavernous mouths, so don’t be afraid to use an entire shad head or whole dead bluegill on a big size 8/0 circle hook.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 14 June 2023
• The setting, a real-life lodge in Fairfax, Okla., is sparsely lit, and shot in such a way as to enhance its cavernous, ominous feel.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
• Hundreds of thousands of members of the public filed past the coffin after it was placed in the cavernous medieval hall Wednesday evening.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2022
• Down the street, descend into the cavernous Kornhauskeller for early lunch.
  — Ryan Haase, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2022
• To give the hull ballast so the ship wouldn’t capsize, more than four hundred tons of pig iron and gravel stones were lowered through the hatches into the dark, dank, cavernous hold.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• Time also tends to stretch out in weird ways—that empty period between Christmas and the New Year can feel huge, cavernous.
  — Daisy Jones, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2023
• Still, there is a great deal of goodness in this wagon beyond the cavernous interior.
  — Martin Padgett Jr., Car and Driver, 2 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024