How to Use cave in a Sentence

cave

1 of 2 noun
  • Kentucky's Mammoth Cave is actually a series of large chambers on five levels.
  • And that came to me in the cave.
    — Nick Hilden, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Tickets are not sold at the cave.
    — Tina Chen, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Are the caves in the film real caves?
    — Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Apr. 2026
  • To see these caves takes patience.
    — Stephanie Pearson, Outside, 19 Feb. 2026
  • All those female mouths and caves!
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
  • And the stakes are high if neither side caves.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
  • So many things can go wrong during a cave dive.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 25 May 2026
  • And the path led us into a cave… with a bar!
    — Kaity Velez, Parents, 23 Dec. 2025
  • The way into the cave is easy to miss from the street.
    — Jennifer Walker, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Some caves hold up to 1 million bats.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Paved paths with lights were added to many areas of the cave.
    — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2023
  • It's thought they were found in the same cave where the first body was found.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 18 May 2026
  • Some of the caves hold up to 1 million bats.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The world's largest cave will, one day, become a canyon.
    — Nicole Young, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • In 2026, the caves were open for just one day.
    — Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 14 June 2026
  • When that lightsaber goes flying across the Wampa cave?
    — Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 4 May 2026
  • At the top of the trail, a rough stone house fills the eye socket of a cave.
    — Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • One of the two springs is cave-based with a collector.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Some were spotted on cave walls and tucked into rocky crevices.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2026
  • But for me, the gypsum caves were more of a place for mourning.
    — Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
  • As the cave shakes and thunders, the scene gets more ominous.
    — Megan Dubois, Southern Living, 4 May 2026
  • In some sea caves, harbor seals rest in the quiet shade.
    — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • In some sea caves, harbor seals rest in the quiet shade.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Most of these caves were carved out during the medieval era.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 3 May 2026
  • In other instances, a lone fish can end up in its own cave.
    — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 17 Sep. 2025
  • But some also are concerned for those who’ve lived in the caves.
    — Trevor Morgan, Sacramento Bee, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Man was drawing pictures on cave walls.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The first man to exit the cave had problems with his hand and foot.
    — CNN Money, 30 May 2026
  • Did the artists practice in the soil, on rocks outside the cave?
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025

cave

2 of 2 verb
  • This is not the time for politicians to cave.
    — Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2025
  • The Nuggets’ season caved in on them.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2026
  • McIntosh says the roof caved in.
    — Marissa Sulek, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • And the price of caving differs from place to place.
    — Monica Duffy Toft, The Conversation, 25 June 2026
  • Heavy snow could cause roofs or other structures to cave in.
    — Anthony Edwards, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The roof was already caved in, the side walls were caving in.
    — Michael Guise, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The roof had caved in and one of the walls needed to be repaired.
    — Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The walls of the barracks had crumbled, their roofs caved in.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Ahmed Ali said he was jarred by the noise of the floors caving in.
    — Kerry Burke, Rocco Parascandola, Janon Fisher, Michael Gartland, Ellen Moynihan New York Daily News (tns), al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Make sure your knees line up with your ankles and don’t cave inward.
    — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Trump drew a red line and Democrats caved after 43 days.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Then the roof caved in on Vegas over the next three minutes.
    — Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The ceiling for this season caved in when Alt was lost for the year.
    — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2025
  • And in Logan, the floor never caves.
    — Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2026
  • At parks that meant tents caved in with snowfall and trees blocking access roads.
    — oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2023
  • But fire did more than make campsites and caves more comfortable.
    — Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
  • The earth didn't cave in, and everyone's having a great time.
    — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Five firemen were trapped when their main building’s front facade caved in.
    — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Caving isn’t good, of course, but your reasons for caving are.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Another clip captured that day shows a stove with part of the roof caved in on top of it.
    — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The blaze, the website said, got out of control, causing the roof and floor to cave in.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 11 May 2022
  • The roof in her bathroom had caved in from an ice storm, and a trash bag covered the opening.
    — Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • One falling would certainly cave your dome.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
  • Still, the White House is showing no signs of caving.
    — Al Weaver, The Hill, 19 Feb. 2026
  • For this person to cave to these sentiments, and to pressure her to cave to them.
    — Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Even so, Sculley should not have caved in to pressure to announce it yet.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Beside the facade, the blasts had caved in the roof of the building’s northwest wing.
    — James Verini, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
  • His truck veered off the road in Idaho, flipping eight times with the roof caving in.
    — Greg Rosenstein, NBC news, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Many feared their new president would cave to Russia.
    — ABC News, 24 Aug. 2025
  • This doesn't mean executives should roll over and cave to their people's whims.
    — Micah Remley, Forbes, 5 July 2022

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