[ US /ˈkeɪv/ ]
VERB
  1. hollow out as if making a cave or opening
    The river was caving the banks
  2. explore natural caves
NOUN
  1. a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea
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How To Use cave In A Sentence

  • There was no crust of stalagmite overlying the mud in which the human skeleton was found, and no bones of other animals in the mud with the skeleton; but just before our visit in 1860 the tusk of a bear had been met with in some mud in a lateral embranchment of the cave, in a situation precisely similar to b, Figure 1, and on a level corresponding with that of the human skeleton. The Antiquity of Man
  • But here's the caveat: Not all books written by newspaper reporters should be reviewed.
  • Ribs are straight or slightly biconcave and fade on the ventral surface where they merge into the lateral keel.
  • Every jag, every bump on the wall revealed a zone of darkness that was worth to explore, but every time, in the shadows, there was just the sides of the cave, continuing.
  • The dean promptly caved and told us that our party was now being called the ‘Annual’ party
  • This is the exclusive preserve of the cave explorer who cares less for personal discomfort.
  • Besides when it gets to Tuesday, I think someone will cave and pay our price.
  • The cup-marked stone shown below, in the Sma’ Glen, near Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, is situated in a large man-made concave-shaped amphitheatre in the hills, and has a prominent dumb-bell shaped cup-mark on its surface.
  • The rock was caverned out to make a tunnel.
  • The legionaries outside were yelling for the whole gang to be 'roasted out of the cave'. The Times Literary Supplement
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