How to Use cavernous in a Sentence

cavernous

adjective
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  • The dance was held in a cavernous hall.
  • We toured the cavernous airplane hangar.
  • 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 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
  • Its owners also play old movies on the back wall of the cavernous space.
    — Michelle Matthews | [email protected], al, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The sound of dozens of handcuffs being unhitched echoed through the cavernous room.
    — Leif Wenar, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2024
  • All of this is in the cavernous atrium, the cathedral or grotto space.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Sep. 2021
  • 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 chamber meets in a cavernous room with velvet curtains and a musty scent.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • There were lots of other young men there, milling around the cavernous living room.
    — Colton Haynes, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • The sale includes the lease to the restaurant’s cavernous space, which will house three new concepts from its new owners this fall.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 13 Apr. 2021
  • There was an undercurrent of glee in the cavernous room.
    — John Gurda, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • With two rounds in the books, Dennis Munson Jr. slumped on the stool in the corner of the ring, the hoots and hollers of a Friday fight night echoing through the cavernous ballroom.
    — John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The huge gym felt cavernous with the four voting stations and eight voting machines.
    — Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 29 May 2024
  • 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
  • The skyscraper-like corn is a part of rural America as much as cavernous red barns and placid cows.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2024
  • McQueen screened the film for me on a big screen in one of the screening rooms in Warner Bros’ cavernous post-production complex that recently opened in Soho.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2024

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