cavernous

How To Use cavernous In A Sentence

• Man, the surface of the skull is comparatively smooth, and the supraciliary ridges or brow prominences usually project but little — while, in the Gorilla, vast crests are developed upon the skull, and the brow ridges overhang, the cavernous orbits, like great penthouses. Essays
• The finding of large cavernous spaces filled with mucopolysaccharides is consistent with ischemic processes elsewhere in the central nervous system.
• Yes, Stephen had all the symptoms, what the doctors called the "diathesis," or look of consumption: nearly transparent skin, through which blue veins could be seen ticking, and a haggard face and a cavernous, wheezing chest. ‘Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel’
• With domed hall and cavernous corridors that echoed every step, this felt more like a tomb.
• He did his best to project it into the cavernous auditorium, but to little avail. Times, Sunday Times
• Beneath, where even in August noonday, the sun cannot find its way by a chink, and babies lie stark naked in the cavernous shade, Allen Street presents a sort of submarine and greenish gloom, as if its humanity were actually moving through a sea of aqueous shadows, faces rather bleached and shrunk from sunlessness as water can bleach and shrink. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
• We are sitting in his cavernous oak-panelled office just off the lobby. Times, Sunday Times
• At night I lay on the bed in the cavernous room at the boarding house. Times, Sunday Times
• The MRI appearance of spinal cavernous malformations is generally the same as its cerebral counterparts.
• We'd been rehearsing in a cold, cavernous warehouse space at Fort Mason for six weeks.