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How to use cave-in in a sentence

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The cave-in started in the first over with Scott Richardson's slash at Graeme Welch ending up in Christopher Bassano's hands at gully.
He is also hoping to wrangle Trade Promotion Authority back out of Congress in exchange for his craven cave-in to special interests.
The cave-in at the Xuzhou Coal Mine Group-operated mine was caused by a sudden in-rush of water.
The investigators believe that it was bombs destroying the mine, not a natural cave-in.
In February the cave-in began with a meeting between the FAI and the government.
The American Association of Retired Persons is mad at him for his cave-in to the drug manufacturers.
A total of 221 miners were underground when the cave-in occurred at about 9.40 pm on Sunday at the state-run Dongfeng coal mine.
If so, this could be a pre-emptive cave-in by the Judiciary Committee's chairman.
Having passed the final barricade, Trachoma then struck the roof of the tunnel behind him, creating a small cave-in to seal his retreat.
But time will tell whether the compromise is the functional equivalent of a cave-in.
This kind of presentation is just a cave-in to the politically correct crowd.
If on the other hand this is merely the latest instance of a network's craven cave-in, what else is new?
There's a cave-in, and whole houses, entire families, are swallowed up and consumed by fire.
They have already set a world record for time trapped underground after a cave-in.
The ditch would need to be braced to prevent cave-in and a safety fence would need to be built around the ditch.
The jury brought in a verdict that the cave-in in the tunnel was due to faulty design in the timbering.
At the other end, there was a narrow strip of what looked like dirt, but beyond that, they were dismayed to find that their route was blocked by a roof cave-in.
In 1876, a freak mine cave-in exposed a valuable body of gold, and the Standard Consolidated Mining Company responded with a large investment in equipment and lumber.
My grandfather was killed at the age of 27, crushed beyond recognition in a mine cave-in while grandma was carrying the baby destined to be my father.
The Spanish electorate were not voting for a cave-in to terrorists.
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Perhaps, after all, he had been on the other side of the cave-in and had hurried on out of the mine.
How big a cave-in it was going to be, and what it was going to lead to, I never guessed.
At any moment might come disaster in the shape of a cave-in or a falling tree.
There is a cave-in, and my father and five other men are shut down in the mine.
You dont suppose one cave-in had anything to do with the other, do you?
Unfortunately, because of a cave-in of the unconsolidated earth of last years fill, a photograph was impossible.
If he could force a way through the cave-in there might be safety beyond.
He attacked the cave-in with the cool energy that characterized him.
The cave-in of the Landlord had not entirely removed the sense of outrage.
So compact is the loess that there is no danger of a cave-in.
Somebody has pried out some of the timbering and caused a cave-in.
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