How to Use cavernous in a Sentence

cavernous

adjective

• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• 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
• Equally irregular is the black-box theater above the gallery on the third floor, a cavernous space with a gallery on two of its sides.
  — Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2022
• The dimensions were right — a 7,000-square-foot space with a ceiling high enough to allow for a stage but not so high as to be cavernous.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 28 Sep. 2021
• 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

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024