How to Use capital in a Sentence

capital

noun

• The heavy winds even downed a tree in the state's capital.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 1 Feb. 2024
• The Houthis have held northern Yemen and the country's capital of Sanaa since 2014.
  — Jon Gambrell, Quartz, 9 Mar. 2024
• But beyond that, there are numbers six to 10 that have the capital.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024
• Much of the capital city, Victoria, has been built on reclaimed land along the shore.
  — Frank Hulley-Jones, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• The park is located east of the capital in the Croix-des-Bouquets suburb.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2024
• Lapis waves still push and pull before the edge of town, once the capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom, now charred and stripped of color.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Aug. 2023
• In 2014, a northern rebel movement known as the Houthis stormed Sanaa, the capital, and deposed the government.
  — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• The Austrian capital retained its place at the top of the list, which was last published in the pre-pandemic days of 2019.
  — Alex Millson, Fortune Europe, 12 Dec. 2023
• But even that isn’t the whole story; both capital and the players themselves seemed to be pulling in the same direction.
  — Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 13 July 2023
• Florida has long been the shark bite capital of the world, and Floridapanhandle.com statistics bear that out.
  — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
• Here, get to know the capital’s real highlights, beyond what the news or Schoolhouse Rock told you.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 29 June 2023
• Case had previously faced capital murder charges in the death of Casen Case, who was left in a hot car for as long as eight hours.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 18 Aug. 2023
• Vibrant Mexican festival-goers come out in droves to this event, which takes place right in the heart of the capital city.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 15 Apr. 2024
• So, the duo spent the last year and a half creating and building DC/Dox, a new nonfiction film festival based in the nation’s capital.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 15 June 2023
• A lot of hard work, great people, and capital behind our commitments.
  — TIME, 10 Dec. 2023
• Don't miss Brisbane, Queensland's capital, set along its picturesque river and crossed by the Story Bridge.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 12 Oct. 2023
• Others claim the cookie was created in Texas, the cowboy capital.
  — Maggie Burch, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2023
• The images conveyed nothing about the role Black people played in the history of the nation’s capital, much less on the property itself.
  — Robert Draper, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• The camp photographer, Aaron Mwale, is a native of Lusaka, the Zambian capital.
  — Tayari Jones, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2023
• High temperatures in the capital city are expected in the high 50-degree to mid-60-degree range.
  — Savanna Smith, Sacramento Bee, 14 Feb. 2024
• Access to capital and markets still holds back small-scale organic growers in the area, said Cardona.
  — The Arizona Republic, 9 Mar. 2024
• So Friday, the first one in February, seemed a sort of landmark along the capital’s route through days of gradually increasing light, across a cold season to the warmth of spring.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024
• Following a three-year stay in the Fatimid capital, Hasan returned to Persia with plans to gather support for a large-scale uprising against the Seljuks.
  — Nicholas Liu, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
• This led to the creation of public capital markets for stocks and bonds and all the wealth and wonders those innovations have generated since.
  — Chris Dixon, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2024
• Dialogue can land like slogans (which elicit cheers from the audience), points are made and re-made in capital letters, and a save-the-day ending feels awkward.
  — Frank Rizzo, Variety, 11 Dec. 2023
• The Causeway actress, 33, arrived in the French capital ready to make a statement in her all-charcoal look that spoke of power and sartorial prowess.
  — Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2024
• As the former capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Lahaina was a vestige of that pre-colonial history.
  — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2023
• Another was scrawled with a slogan alluding to the air raid alerts that routinely rattle the capital.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• The unnamed passenger was detained by police shortly after the flight’s return to the capital, the airline spokesperson shared, per the outlet.
  — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2024
• Sam Dent, a 41-year-old father of two and an angler who had fished just about every body of water in the capital region, was hit by a car and killed on a dangerous Sacramento road Feb. 26.
  — Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 15 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 9 May 2024