CARAVAN in a Sentence

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14 example sentences for CARAVAN, such as:

1. The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.
2. The community advisor gave us a caravan to live in.
3. Besides, the appearance of the caravan was formidable.
4. You shouldn't drive fast when your car is towing a caravan.
5. He packed off his wife and children to stay in a caravan in Wales.

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 Meanings and Examples of CARAVAN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
caravan
 v.  travel in a caravan
 n.  a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file
Classic Sentence:
1  For fifteen hundred miles one may trace this ghastly caravan route by these scattered remains of those who had fallen by the wayside.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
2  With a cracking of whips and a creaking of wheels the great waggons got into motion, and soon the whole caravan was winding along once more.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
3  The roof and chimney of Venn's caravan showed behind the tracery and tangles of the brake.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
4  To-day the police traced them down and examined their caravan.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
5  In the courtyard, elephants trumpeted, and swart men with beards dyed crimson stood with blood-stained hands folded upon their hilts, guarding the caravan from El Sharnak, the camels with Tyrian stuffs of topaz and cinnabar.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
7  Next day I left that station at last, with a caravan of sixty men, for a two-hundred-mile tramp.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
8  Besides, the appearance of the caravan was formidable.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 20 THE JOURNEY
9  Two great yellow caravans had halted one morning before the door and men had come tramping into the house to dismantle it.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
Example Sentence:
1  He packed off his wife and children to stay in a caravan in Wales.
2  The community advisor gave us a caravan to live in.
3  You shouldn't drive fast when your car is towing a caravan.
4  The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.
5  The owners have built a gift shop and a tastefully laid out caravan site.