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Caisson is an English word with synonyms like coffer or lacuna. Below you'll find 9 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Caisson in a sentence

Caisson meaning

  1. An enclosure from which water can be expelled, in order to give access to underwater areas for engineering works etc.
  2. The gate across the entrance to a dry dock.
  3. A floating tank that can be submerged, attached to an underwater object and then pumped out to lift the object by buoyancy; a camel.

Synonyms of Caisson

coffer lacuna panel military vehicle ammunition chest chest pneumatic caisson cofferdam chamber

Related words

Other words often associated with Caisson or its synonyms:

bedroom vehicle pad furniture gap committee room bedchamber sheet window assembly pectus

Using Caisson

  • The main meaning on this page is: An enclosure from which water can be expelled, in order to give access to underwater areas for engineering works etc. | The gate across the entrance to a dry dock. | A floating tank that can be submerged, attached to an underwater object and then pumped out to lift the object by buoyancy; a camel.
  • Useful related words include: coffer, lacuna, panel, military vehicle.
  • In the example corpus, caisson often appears in combinations such as: the caisson, horse-drawn caisson.

Context around Caisson

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 26.1 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 4 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

drawn 2× huge 1× steel 1×

Often after:

unit 1× lighthouses 1× light 1× disease 1×

Sentence patterns with Caisson

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

behind the caisson 1× horse drawn caisson 1× horse drawn caisson through several 1× ice steel caisson lighthouses such 1× inside the caisson 1× suffered from caisson disease 1× the huge caisson unit is 1× to a caisson light because 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

and in ceremonies 1× as screw piles 1× currently being manufactured 1× following a short 1× he fell convert 1× orient long beach 1×

Common sentence endings:

behind the caisson 1× draped casket crossed 1× during the summer 1× from caisson disease 1× horse drawn caisson 1× in cold climates 1×

Words around Caisson

Just before it in the word index:

caissie 6 caisse 33 caiso 6 caisip 2 caisey 2 cais 5

Just after it in the word index:

caistor 3 cait 39 caitanya 3 caithness 71 caitie 2 caitlan 3

Similar in corpus frequency:

aakash 12 aanholt 12 aardwolf 12 abadan 12 abati 12 abcc 12

Corpus analysis for Caisson

  • In this selection, "caisson" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, drawn, huge, steel, unit, lighthouses and light stand out and add context to how "caisson" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include behind the caisson and horse drawn caisson. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "caisson" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with caisson

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

The project chief engineer Washington Roebling suffered from caisson disease. (10 words)

As screw piles can be disrupted by ice, steel caisson lighthouses such as Orient Point Light are used in cold climates. (21 words)

He fell convert and likely died of head injuries caused by impact with the criss-crossing steel beams inside the caisson. (21 words)

Longer example sentences

Following a short ceremony outside of Brown Chapel AME Church on Sunday, Lewis' body traveled on a horse-drawn caisson through several blocks of downtown Selma to the Pettus Bridge, where Lewis' flag-draped casket crossed. (36 words)

Currently being manufactured in La Coruna in north-west Spain by Dragados Offshore, the huge caisson unit is due to be transferred to Aberdeen in the next few months to be installed during the summer. (35 words)

When iron probes underneath the caisson for the Manhattan tower found the bedrock to be even deeper than expected, Roebling halted construction due to the increased risk of decompression sickness. (30 words)

Example sentences (9)

And in ceremonies for Army and Marine Corps officers who were colonels or above, there is a riderless horse that walks behind the caisson.

Following a short ceremony outside of Brown Chapel AME Church on Sunday, Lewis' body traveled on a horse-drawn caisson through several blocks of downtown Selma to the Pettus Bridge, where Lewis' flag-draped casket crossed.

Currently being manufactured in La Coruna in north-west Spain by Dragados Offshore, the huge caisson unit is due to be transferred to Aberdeen in the next few months to be installed during the summer.

That could mean 3,000 guests, most of them police and prison officers, and an honor guard, bagpipe band, firing line, bugler, flag folding and a horse-drawn caisson.

As screw piles can be disrupted by ice, steel caisson lighthouses such as Orient Point Light are used in cold climates.

He fell convert and likely died of head injuries caused by impact with the criss-crossing steel beams inside the caisson.

Orient Long Beach Bar Light (Bug Light) is a blend of a screw pile light that was converted to a caisson light because of the threat of ice damage.

The project chief engineer Washington Roebling suffered from caisson disease.

When iron probes underneath the caisson for the Manhattan tower found the bedrock to be even deeper than expected, Roebling halted construction due to the increased risk of decompression sickness.

Common combinations with caisson

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "caisson" in a sentence?
An example: "And in ceremonies for Army and Marine Corps officers who were colonels or above, there is a riderless horse that walks behind the caisson." This page contains 9 example sentences with the word "caisson" from authentic English texts.
What does "caisson" mean?
Caisson means: An enclosure from which water can be expelled, in order to give access to underwater areas for engineering works etc.
What are synonyms of "caisson"?
Common synonyms of "caisson" include: coffer, lacuna, panel, military vehicle, ammunition chest, chest, pneumatic caisson, cofferdam. Plus 1 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "caisson" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 9 example sentences with "caisson", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.