Cavelike

Some of his pieces invite us to peer into cavelike crevasses, one thing embodied within another. ❋ Willard Spiegelman (2011)

He awoke to find himself in a tiny cavelike cell with a couple of ventilation holes -- and the constant blasting of Brazilian country music. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It did not seem quite as magical and mysterious to light a candle in here as it would have in their dark, cavelike church in Norfolk, but nevertheless Daria lit a candle in the bottom tier and knelt next to her mother to say a prayer for the baby. ❋ Paul De Denus (2010)

There were several promising cavelike crevices among the collapsed buildings. ❋ Sidney D. Kirkpatrick (2010)

The kitchens of the abbey were warm and cavelike, the arching roof blackened with centuries of grease-filled smoke. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The cavelike space cut them off completely from sight. ❋ Kate Brian (2010)

As she walked down the steep escalator into the cavelike recess of the Dupont Circle Metro station, she practiced greeting him. ❋ Allison Leotta (2010)

Most of the lamps were off, so it was dark and cavelike, the only light coming from the massive windows that looked into the hippo enclosures. ❋ STUART GIBBS (2010)

The ceiling had once been whitewashed, but was now dark with soot from candles and lamps, making the room feel cavelike. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Dark and cloistered and cavelike, the stairwell had seemed like a good idea at the time. ❋ Kresley Cole (2010)

Only the earthen-floored fruit cellar remained, relic of an earlier, seemingly more innocent era before the 1960s when even well-to-do women like Shannon's grandmother had preserved and canned fruit in glass jars, an elaborate process requiring many hours 'work; these jars had been stored in the fruit cellar, a cavelike space of the size of a good walk-in closet hollowed out of the earth and lined with stone and mortar. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A dank series of cavelike rooms below an Orthodox yeshiva, the place had a musty, subterranean feel, as if the Golem were crouching in the next passageway. ❋ Mark Jacobson (2010)

The lighting is always terrible in those cavelike rooms. ❋ Linda P. Kozar (2009)