Example sentences for: caved

How can you use “caved” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Many pundits--such as Tucker Carlson ( Late Edition ), Bob Novak (CNN's Capital Gang ), and Mark Shields ( Capital Gang )--think that the GOP caved to the Democrats on important budget issues, like tax cuts and across-the-board spending cuts.

  • Some of them felt strongly enough about their situation to form a pressure group and now, after a long struggle, the government has caved in: a recent Journal officiel lists four pages of people who are to be allowed to change their names--when they can come up with the 2000 franc (±$325) fee.

  • The LAT lead's headline--"OSHA Scales Back Its New Workplace Safety Plan"--and its first paragraph suggest that the government has quickly caved in to the protesting business world, whereas the story itself explains that the rules were softened last February, not yesterday.

  • He then accused Brent and Yale of having "caved" in to the ethos of "historical correctness" governed by "revisionists who dismiss as cold war humbug the notion that the Soviet Union was a totalitarian country."

  • Eventually the kennel club caved like Denny's before a class action suit.


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