How to Use cage in a Sentence

cage

1 of 2 noun
  • Add a stake or cage right away.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 June 2026
  • There’s gotta be a cage, though.
    — Annie Heilbrunn, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2026
  • On the mats, in a ring, in a cage.
    — Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Knot the twine against the bar of the cage.
    — Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The cage on the cork must be turned six times.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Feel like the process and the cage work have been elite.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • And then Liu broke out of her cage.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 16 Feb. 2026
  • All the work happens in the cage.
    — Levi Weaver, New York Times, 4 May 2026
  • All the work happens in the cage.
    — Levi Weaver, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Even those with a cage can use some guidance.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 May 2026
  • Her heart was pounding like a bird in a cage.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • And here you are shut up in this little cage.
    — Ron Arias, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Many fans placed flowers by the cage.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Place the bulbs inside the cages with the root end down.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2025
  • It was very neatly kept, but there was a cage over the grave.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Over the next three weeks, the work began to show up in the cages.
    — Spencer Nusbaum, New York Times, 19 May 2026
  • But nobody becomes an artist to be put in a cage.
    — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The sweet-swinging Rice had to get his cage work in.
    — Gary Phillips, Hartford Courant, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Some may even watch a cage match on the White House lawn.
    — Joseph Andrew, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
  • There were no food or water dishes in the cage.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 18 Mar. 2026
  • There were no food or water dishes in the cage.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Now, the two will do battle inside a steel cage.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2026
  • Chimaev just wants his rival to make it to the cage.
    — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2026
  • Bichette is hitting in the cage but has yet to start running.
    — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Heavy rain and high winds can displace tomato cages.
    — Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Never clean reptile cages or bowls in the kitchen sink.
    — John Drake, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Bury each cage at the proper planting depth.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Not in one of those doggy prisons that leave him in a cage all day.
    — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • On one side stood a dozen or so cages occupied by snow-white rats.
    — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The big spot came in the form of a superplex from the top of the cage.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 4 Feb. 2023

cage

2 of 2 verb
  • Royals are caged most of the time.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2026
  • They had been caged in the basement.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Nini might have died too if he hadn’t been caged and hand-fed.
    — Tao Lin, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • There’s now no way to tell whether a bag of kopi luwak was made from wild or caged civets.
    — National Geographic, 29 Apr. 2016
  • Is he caged and plugged under all of those polka-dot suits?
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 1 May 2026
  • Each plant’s roots had to be caged to protect them from gophers.
    — Stephanie Strom, New York Times, 26 May 2017
  • Both fly for free and are not required to be caged during the flight.
    — CBS News, 19 Jan. 2018
  • These plants have a vining growth habit and need to be staked or caged for support.
    — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 22 June 2026
  • But this doesn’t have to feel like a Mandy Moore caged shark fight to the death.
    — Ruby Warrington and Alexandra Roxo, Teen Vogue, 24 June 2017
  • Five other dogs were caged in the main house, unable to get to water.
    — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 27 Aug. 2017
  • While these hens are not caged, roaming space may be limited.
    — Darlene Zimmerman, Detroit Free Press, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Eleven adult dogs were found inside a main house, with some caged together.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 31 July 2023
  • Naron said the animal was not caged or on a leash and was being shown to tour guests.
    — Ken Ritter, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Bergdahl, 31, has said he was caged, kept in darkness and beaten.
    — Bloomberg.com, 23 Oct. 2017
  • The chimps were caged in a trailer lot and at a primate sanctuary.
    — Deepti Hajela, The Seattle Times, 8 June 2017
  • But the judiciary says that child migrants have a right not to be caged, at all.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 21 June 2018
  • For some kids, being caged up in such a world only deepened their fears and their hatred.
    — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Some of the animals were caged, while others roamed freely, Binz wrote.
    — Leah Asmelash and Tina Burnside, CNN, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Afterward the workers cage the nest to keep predators away.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Scientific American, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Bear bile farming is now banned in Vietnam, but there are still dozens of bears stuck on farms, caged and alone.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The kidnappers sped off with the children caged in their mobile prisons.
    — David Begnaud, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2019
  • The kidnappers sped off with the children caged in those mobile prisons.
    — David Begnaud, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2023
  • In July, climbers cage the cones of those trees to foil the Clark’s nutcracker.
    — Jim Morrison, Wired, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Luckily for Buttermilk, she won’t be caged in for much longer.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2017
  • It’s caged in by the lantern’s design, which deters squirrels and also creates less of a mess.
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 July 2026
  • It’s caged in by the lantern’s design, which deters squirrels and also creates less of a mess.
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 May 2026
  • This time, there would be no escape but as police would come to learn, caging Bishnoi wouldn’t end his reign.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Sometimes, that equipment fails, and that person is thrust into a tiny, caged space, face to face with a great white shark.
    — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 14 Oct. 2016
  • Meanwhile Bella went the vampy route in a black lambskin coat, black pumps and caged studded gloves.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Also, blitzing is a way of caging in Drake Maye, one of the best scramblers in the league.
    — Jacob Robinson, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026

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