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noun

cabin

CEFR B1

small room on a ship or boat where people sleep

In a sentence

Six example sentences with cabin, each labelled with its topic.

  • Their ferry cabin had two bunks, a folding sink, and a porthole that showed nothing but gray water.

    Travel

  • Melville puts the captain alone in his cabin for whole chapters, brooding while the crew works the deck above.

    Literature

  • The whole mutiny scene was shot in a cabin barely wide enough for the camera and two actors.

    Movies

  • Emigrants who could afford a cabin ate at the captain's table, while steerage passengers slept below in rows of bunks.

    History

  • Darwin shared a cramped cabin on the Beagle with the chart table, writing his notes each night beneath a swinging hammock.

    Science

  • Cruise lines price an inside cabin far below one with a balcony, and the cheapest rooms sell out first.

    Business

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