CAVERN in a Sentence

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For CAVERN, below is one of 93 sentences:
Dantes saw the light gradually disappear, and fearing to be surprised in the cavern, left it, his gun in his hand.

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 Meanings and Examples of CAVERN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cavern
 n.  cave; large underground chamber, as in a cave
Classic Sentence: (90 in 7 pages)
1  He seized Becky's hand and hurried her into the first corridor that offered; and none too soon, for a bat struck Becky's light out with its wing while she was passing out of the cavern.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
2  Injun Joe's cup stands first in the list of the cavern's marvels; even "Aladdin's Palace" cannot rival it.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
3  Four avenues opened out of the small cavern which the great rock stood in.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
4  We tramped and clumb around all over it, and by and by found a good big cavern in the rock, most up to the top on the side towards Illinois.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX.
5  The cavern was as big as two or three rooms bunched together, and Jim could stand up straight in it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX.
6  So we went back and got the canoe, and paddled up abreast the cavern, and lugged all the traps up there.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX.
7  We put all the other things handy at the back of the cavern.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX.
8  The ridge our cavern was in was full of them.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX.
9  I went to the cavern to get some, and found a rattlesnake in there.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X.
10  I landed, and slopped through the timber and up the ridge and into the cavern.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI.
11  We put out the camp fire at the cavern the first thing, and didn't show a candle outside after that.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI.
12  I see it in the depths of the inner cavern.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19. The Third Attack.
13  Dantes had tasted nothing, but he thought not of hunger at such a moment; he hastily swallowed a few drops of rum, and again entered the cavern.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave.
14  Dantes saw the light gradually disappear, and fearing to be surprised in the cavern, left it, his gun in his hand.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave.
15  A man of about forty-five or fifty entered, exactly resembling the smuggler who had introduced Franz into the cavern; but he did not appear to recognize him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 35. La Mazzolata.
Example Sentence:
1  The door of the cavern was big enough to roll a hogshead in, and on one side of the door the floor stuck out a little bit, and was flat and a good place to build a fire on.
2  The uncollected muck seeped into the cavernous potholes that were a rarity before the military coup in 2009.
3  The rock was caverned out to make a tunnel.