CABIN in a Sentence

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In courtship days Kennicott had shown her a photograph of Nels Erdstrom's baby and log cabin, but she had never seen the Erdstroms.

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 Meanings and Examples of CABIN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cabin
 n.  small room on a ship or boat where people sleep
Classic Sentence: (165 in 12 pages)
1  Close to the back step of one cabin, she found a short row of radishes and hunger assaulted her suddenly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
2  The faint niggery smell which crept from the cabin increased her nausea and, without strength to combat it, she kept on retching miserably while the cabins and trees revolved swiftly around her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
3  She, Scarlett O'Hara was lying behind a negro cabin, in the midst of ruins, too sick and too weak to move, and no one in the world knew or cared.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
4  And Mrs. Meade told me she was thinking about building a log cabin when the doctor comes back to help her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
5  She said she lived in a log cabin when she first came to Atlanta, when it was Marthasville, and it wouldn't bother her none to do it again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
6  Miss Bart, emerging late the next morning from her cabin, found herself alone on the deck of the Sabrina.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
7  Lily sat silent, taking the brunt of it quietly, letting it spend itself on her to the last drop of its accumulated falseness; then, without a word, she rose and went down to her cabin.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
8  A photograph of a forest clearing: pathetic new furrows straggling among stumps, a clumsy log cabin chinked with mud and roofed with hay.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  In courtship days Kennicott had shown her a photograph of Nels Erdstrom's baby and log cabin, but she had never seen the Erdstroms.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  He used the log cabin as a barn; and a new house reared up, a proud, unwise, Gopher Prairie house, the more naked and ungraceful in its glossy white paint and pink trimmings.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  It was a roving shanty, the cabin of a land schooner, with black oilcloth seats along the side, and for desk, a pine board to be let down on hinges.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  So he makes the best of it; and when the sailors find him not to be the man that is advertised, they let him pass, and he descends into the cabin.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
13  And so saying, he led the way below deck into the cabin.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
14  Such, then, was the person that I saw seated on the transom when I followed Captain Peleg down into the cabin.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
15  "Quick, Bildad," said Peleg, his partner, who, aghast at the close vicinity of the flying harpoon, had retreated towards the cabin gangway.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18. His Mark.
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  British Airways says passengers reported a slight smell of petrol in the cabin of BA flight 003 bound for New York.
2  While you're at dinner, your cabin steward will prepare your stateroom.
3  He started and run round and round the cabin, hollering "Take him off! take him off! he's biting me on the neck!" I never see a man look so wild in the eyes.
4  The union of British Airways cabin crew is on strike, meaning all flights between Glasgow and London are canceled.
5  He made out of the cabin at once on hearing the siren.
6  He hopped around the cabin considerable, first on one leg and then on the other, holding first one shin and then the other one, and at last he let out with his left foot all of a sudden and fetched the tub a rattling kick.
7  Pap was pretty careful not to leave a knife or anything in the cabin when he was away.
8  There was an old horse blanket nailed against the logs at the far end of the cabin behind the table, to keep the wind from blowing through the chinks and putting the candle out.
9  When we got to the cabin we took a look at the front and the two sides; and on the side I warn't acquainted with -- which was the north side -- we found a square window-hole, up tolerable high, with just one stout board nailed across it.
10  The main cabin has its full-sized double bed centrally placed with plenty of room around it.
11  The rain had kept me indoors all weekend and I was beginning to get cabin fever.
12  The weight of the snow caused the roof of the cabin to cave in.
13  The young pioneers lived in a little log cabin in the mountains during the summer camping.
14  Aviation experts noted that confidence in the plane was increased by the fact that the fuselage remained largely intact after impact and the fire remained at bay until after many passengers had exited, thanks to engineering design and a flame retardant cabin interior that are standard on modern jets.
15  Teso demonstrated his ability to glean information from an airplane's onboard computer, change the intended destination, play around with the interior lights in the cabin.