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Example sentences for "cave"

Lexicographically close words:
cavalryman; cavalrymen; cavass; cavate; cavatina; cavea; caveat; caveats; caved; caveman
  1. Into this cave the troops penetrated with their standards, and, the place being dark, they received many wounds, chiefly from stones thrown.

  2. With joyous exclamations he runs from the cave into the forest.

  3. Fafner slays Fasolt and then retires to a cave in the heart of a forest where, in the form of a dragon, he guards the ring and the rest of the treasure which Wotan wrested from Alberich and also gave to the giants as ransom for Freia.

  4. The forest disappears; a cave opens in rocky cliffs and conceals the two; they are then seen again in sloping passages which they appear to ascend.

  5. He knows that the giant Fafner, having assumed the shape of a huge serpent, now guards the Nibelung treasure, which includes the ring and the Tarnhelmet, in a cave in the heart of a dense forest.

  6. Mime, well knowing that Fafner will soon awaken and issue from his cave to meet Siegfried in mortal combat, lingers on in the hope that both may fall, until the young Waelsung drives him away.

  7. As Siegfried comes out of the cave and brings the ring and helmet from darkness to the light of day, there are heard the Ring Motive, the Motive of the Rhinedaughters' Shout of Triumph, and the Rhinegold Motive.

  8. She pauses a moment with a gesture of queenly command before Bruennhilde, who has led her horse down the height and into a cave to the right, then departs.

  9. All we have to do is cut that coupling loose, ride back to the cave and collect all the dough we need by sitting tight.

  10. They crossed the floor of the cave toward the series of doors in the wall.

  11. The mono train had evidently entered the cave slowly and slipped between a long row of huge boulders that held it upright.

  12. No sooner had I done so, than I heard a terrific noise accompanied by a fall, and, turning, perceived there had been a landslip, the mouth of the cave being barricaded by this rock.

  13. Dashing forward, however, we arrived in safety, and found there a cave formed by nature.

  14. I believe "The Cave of Horror" was the best story in that issue.

  15. The cave they had crossed offered a refuge from the beast.

  16. At last I gave up my search and came to the cave to complete the work which I had determined upon.

  17. When we began to look around us for a new place to explore, Marjory said: "There doesn't seem to be any treasure cave at all here.

  18. The treasure cave must be within that space which lay between the dismantled entrance on the side of the Skares, and that which had fallen in on the north side.

  19. We agreed that she should come to help me; it would not do to take any one else into our confidence, and she would not hear of my going down into the cave alone.

  20. Here and there, on one side or the other and sometimes on both, the rock walls bellied out, making queer chambers or recesses, or narrowing the cave to an aperture only a few feet wide.

  21. The cave was not a long one; nothing to compare with those we had left.

  22. Then I heard a dull sound of something rattling below me; the top of the cave was falling in.

  23. My own watch had stopped when I had first tried the entrance to the great cave and had been waist high in water, but Marjory had left hers in her room when she had changed her dress for the expedition.

  24. So we began to work at the heap of stones, only we pulled and threw them into the cave where we were so as not to block the place we aimed at.

  25. I took Marjory first up the passage inland, so that she might understand something of the lines of the cave system.

  26. Where the top had come too low it had been quarried away; the remnants still lay adjacent where the cave broadened out.

  27. We stood on the cave floor till the water had reached our waists, and all this time tried to keep moving, to dance up and down, to throw about arms and legs so as to maintain the circulation of the blood.

  28. When translated it ran as follows: "Cave mouthe northe of outer rock one degree and half North of East.

  29. Barlow, who has been a guide at the Cave of the Winds for over thirty years, says that on numerous occasions during that period he has seen two complete circular Rainbows at one time, at that point.

  30. Before long it was rather better in the cave than out-of-doors, though the most important thing was to have Snjolfur with him for his last days above ground--it might be a week or more.

  31. For the time being his body was laid on a flat boulder in the shelter of a shallow cave in the cliffside nearby--later they would bring a sledge to fetch him into the village.

  32. His drowsiness fell from him, he slipped out of the cave and strode off towards the village.

  33. That hole is the bees' home, just as the big cave is our house.

  34. By now they had left their cave far behind them.

  35. Now was he slumbering towards heaven's gate, That he might at the threshold one hour wait To hear the marriage melodies, and then Sink downward to his dusky cave again.

  36. Verdant cave and cell 680 He wander'd through, oft wondering at such swell Of sudden exaltation: but, "Alas!

  37. For, never since thy griefs and woes began, Hast thou felt so content: a grievous feud 550 Hath let thee to this Cave of Quietude.

  38. The opening into the lower cave was extremely narrow, and there was apparently nothing to aid the descent.

  39. We can form an idea of them by the annexed reproduction of a picture drawn on the wall of a cave near Hermon, and published by Andree.

  40. He requested of Jacovello the key of a small cave and an inner chamber, that no person might possibly be a witness of the awful mystery.

  41. It is there said that Abraham, who was a stranger and had not an inch of land in the country of Canaan, bought there a field and a cave in which to bury his wife, for four hundred shekels of silver current money.

  42. Perhaps when he comes back to the cave you can extract from him the secret of his charmed life.

  43. The beast had hidden her in a cave by the sea and had gone away in search of food.

  44. The entrance to the cave was securely shut by it.

  45. When the prince was inside the cave she hastily barred the door and said, "When the giant returned he was terribly angry at the princess because she had let you escape.

  46. The giant princess was delighted to find her husband whom she had never expected to see again and wanted to hasten away from the cave with him at once.

  47. I'll show you the way out of the cave and then you must hurry home as fast as possible.

  48. At the very rear of the cave there was the most enormous giant he had ever seen in his life.

  49. You got into this trouble following me into the cave and I am so sorry for you that I am going to let you out.

  50. We have been building a cave in our yard to keep milk, fruit, and vegetables in instead of a cellar.

  51. The cave looked like a little play house inside.

  52. Scarce were they within the cave when they heard the sound of pursuit.

  53. The Saracens suffer a disastrous defeat at the Cave of Covadonga, Spain.

  54. You find yourself in a room holding perhaps 1200 gentlemen; look around, this is a respectable place, this Cave of Harmony, there are no poor people here.

  55. Once upon a time, as the writer was in the Cave of Harmony, the polite manager asked him his opinion of a new comic singer.

  56. For the Cave of Harmony is not a cheap place to sup at.

  57. So, now pass the cave of Trisirsha, and conquer the rest of your enemies.

  58. This is the history, my liege, of the cave, named the cave of Trisirsha; and the cave cannot be passed by any but persons like yourself.

  59. Now they are all in a cave of the mountain Chandrapada.

  60. For he is protected by the cave, called the cave of Trisirsha, [569] which forms the approach to his kingdom, and the entrance of which is guarded by the great champion Devamaya.

  61. Here the Daitya Dundubhi was slain in a cave by Bali, which was the original cause of the enmity between Bali and Sugriva.

  62. Moreover, no one is equal in might and courage to Prabhasa, and this cave belongs to him on account of his good deeds in a former life, and listen, I will tell you what sort of a person he was in a former existence.

  63. But do you all fortify your door with grass and other things, and remain in the cave where your nests are, that they may not attack you by day.

  64. Moreover, I anointed my body with an ointment that I found in the cave of the kapalika; and, observe, perfume still exhales from it, even though it has been washed.

  65. On the fifth day, as the boar was lying asleep with the monkey at night, there came to the door of the cave a lion with his mate and his cub.

  66. And when his army was ready for battle, he came and blockaded the entrance of that robber's cave with his troops, who sounded all their martial instruments.

  67. We were far enough from the cave to feel quite secluded, and yet so near that we could easily know what was going on there.

  68. The lamp was burning low, the cave was getting almost dark, a fitting light for the ghastly and the terrible.

  69. For Heaven's sake," urged the Skipper, "go to the back of the cave if you mean to make so much noise.

  70. The horror of that awful cave would be too much for a man of the Bo's'n's nervous and exalted temperament.

  71. Strange that I should have found it in the cave when I saw you throw it into the stream.

  72. The Skipper came slowly into the cave now, upholding and almost carrying the young English lad, and we turned our attention to him.

  73. A screen of vines like those before our cave hung from the noble arch overhead.

  74. I had not been able to look at the water during the progress of the hurricane, but those who had reached the cave before me said that the ocean was swept with great masses and waves of foam.

  75. I thought of tyin' him up and not lettin' him go in the cave at all.

  76. I feared for the old man's mind; but I knew that nothing could turn him when once he took a notion into his head, so I entered the cave alone.

  77. He knew of no possible succour from the cave of death.

  78. We now returned to the cave to gather up the jewels.

  79. I stood looking out over the distant water bathed in the moonlight, taking in the bird's-eye view, and wondering just where our cave and camp had stood.

  80. That is as old as this hell of a cave itself.

  81. She ran back to the cave mouth and put another arrow in her bow and aimed it at him.

  82. The woman went into the cave and returned with an earthenware pot.

  83. The young woman looked pleased and went into the cave and brought back a stick of springy wood with a thong attached to one end, and a few dried reeds.

  84. She went back to the cave and the young man put the end of his spear into the fire and tried to scrape the side of the pot with the flint head, but the flint was cold and it cracked.

  85. This kind of stone was put in the cave for us to make knives and spears.

  86. The hunters came back to the cave at dusk, and one of them went to the fire that was kept going constantly in front of the opening.

  87. There is so much game in the cave now," a young woman said, "that it is beginning to smell.

  88. The young man threw the scraping-stone hard against the side of the cave opening and split it in two.

  89. The voice of running water was everywhere heard, betraying the proximity of the little stream by whose ceaseless corroding the cave and its entrance had been worn.

  90. One afternoon, we visited a cave some two miles down the stream, which had recently been discovered.

  91. My Confederate friend wanted to travel into Tennessee, and cordially bidding me good-by at Cave City, he left on an evening train.

  92. I was told that there was a place on the Canada side similar to the “Cave of the Winds,” where one could go behind the sheet of water.

  93. That was what it cost me, and I’ll venture to say that anyone, by being economical, can visit the Mammoth Cave from Louisville for the same amount.

  94. I was put in a double-bedded room with another passenger from Louisville, who also intended to visit the Mammoth Cave next day.

  95. The wind and spray here, as in the “Cave of the Winds,” formed a perfect tempest.

  96. I’ve traveled eighteen hundred miles for the sole purpose of going down in the Cave of the Winds, and I’ll not return to my free home in the Rocky Mountains without it!

  97. The “Cave of the Winds” is simply a vacant space between the great perpendicular wall of rock over which the torrent leaps, on the American side, and the broad sheet of descending water itself.

  98. Here the wind created by the vast masses of water continually tumbling down is very strong, and the flying spray is equal to a violent rain; so that this place reminded me of the “Cave of the Winds.

  99. That place down there is the Cave of the Winds, is it?

  100. I am one of the guides,” said he: “but you don’t want to go down into the Cave of the Winds?

  101. I pushed my way along, and at last tumbled down the dark stone steps into the "Cave de la Grave," a little restaurant patronised by the foreigners and certain middle-class Russians.

  102. And now, always when I look back I see Boris Grogoff standing in the doorway of the "Cave de la Grave" like a ghost from another world warning me.


  103. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cave" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bend; bowl; break; breakdown; breakup; burrow; capitulate; cataclysm; catastrophe; cave; cavern; collapse; concealment; couch; cove; cover; covert; crash; crumple; crypt; cup; debacle; decline; defer; den; disaster; dish; droop; dugout; earth; fawn; flop; fold; form; founder; foxhole; give; grotto; gulf; hole; hollow; knuckle; lair; lapse; lodge; lour; lower; plop; plump; puncture; run; sag; settle; sewer; shelter; shipwreck; sink; slouch; slump; smash; submerge; submissive; subside; subway; succumb; swag; trench; tunnel; washout; wrack; wreck; yield