How to Use caveman in a Sentence

caveman

noun
  • Were there cavemen scraping the hair off their faces with rocks?
    — Luke O'Neil, Esquire, 20 Jan. 2016
  • Over the door is a cartoon caveman pulling a woman by her hair.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Low carb, low fat, eat like a caveman or eat like an herbivore.
    — Ellyn Laub, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Oct. 2020
  • But in a lame non-twist, this unfrozen caveman gangster does just fine.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Heck, some caveman shot-caller might have asked for a show of hands before a risky hunt.
    — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 28 Feb. 2020
  • To fail to pick up a rock, when the other caveman picked up a rock, did not forestall the arms race.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
  • But new research appears to bust the myth that cavemen ate a very meat-forward diet.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 19 May 2024
  • There was also concern about the fur fabric costumes worn by the cavemen.
    — Time, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Bond is a caveman with an Omega, a misogynist with gadgets, a brute in a tux.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 30 Sep. 2021
  • But anybody showing up in a caveman mask would spark a crowpocalypse.
    — Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Then, the researchers captured seven crows with net guns while wearing the caveman mask.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2020
  • For Joan, that means failing health and a starring role in a B-movie about a caveman.
    — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2017
  • The fork-tender caveman-size shank is blanketed in sautéed endive and a bright lemon-egg-dill sauce.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Delivery of the last link to the hitter was caveman primitive — bangs on a trash can in the dugout.
    — Jeff Rowe, Star Tribune, 8 June 2021
  • Your caveman boyfriend grunts to alert the rest of your tribe to this incredible discovery.
    — Lana Schwartz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023
  • What happened to the goofball who once played a caveman and George of the Jungle?
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 12 June 2017
  • What would be more helpful — viewing the cave painting or speaking with the caveman that drew the picture?
    — Mike Myer, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
  • How about like a take on ‘All About Eve’ except Eve is a caveman?
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026
  • The crows learned to associate the caveman with something bad in three ways, Marzluff said.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Oct. 2020
  • But there wasn’t just one moment when a caveman picked up a hunk of pyrite, struck it against a rock, and marveled at the resulting sparks.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Any outdoorsman can appreciate an easy way to light a fire in the wilderness over the caveman method of sticks and stones.
    — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The challenge was to figure out what exactly appeared on the caveman food pyramid.
    — David Merritt Johns, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026
  • The topic extends from the cavemen to the exploration of other worlds, Byrne said.
    — Hal Boedeker, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Watch one of those apocalyptic movies where the human race returns to caveman days — trappers will be the last men standing.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Inside the party, the trio blends in as much as possible with Diego rocking a caveman haircut.
    — Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2020
  • No doubt fraud has been raising blood pressure since some no-good caveman slipped putrid buffalo meat to his neighbor in place of the day’s fresh kill.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2018
  • So how did these researchers reach the conclusion that the speech produced by Neanderthals were more than just caveman grunts?
    — Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Thin slices of beef, slabs of pork belly and chewy short ribs, often in a sweet glaze, redolent of garlic and slathered with hot paste, are charred and served in caveman portions.
    — Todd A. Price, NOLA.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Then language itself breaks apart into letters and sounds, grunted like cavemen incanting around a campfire.
    — Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2024
  • The stories are framed by the tale of Cha Cha, the caveman discoverer of myths (as well as cocaine and some other things).
    — Trevor Fraser, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 May 2017

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