to cap it off
idiom
—used to indicate a final thing that happened that was even better, worse, etc., than what happened before
The car was filthy when he returned it to me, and to cap it off, there was almost no fuel left in the tank.
Examples of to cap it off in a Sentence
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And to cap it off, Onya and Nunya Bidness showcased a bright, cartoonish burst of color in their runway look.
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Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
And to cap it off, we're treated to an unnecessarily graphic flashback of Cal's murder.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025
With a team picture to cap it off, the moment felt nearly perfect.
—Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 15 Feb. 2025
And to cap it off, there may even be a new calculator app.
—Kyle Barr / Gizmodo, Quartz, 3 May 2024
And to cap it off, Time magazine named her Person of the Year.
—Brian Contreras, Scientific American, 8 Feb. 2024
Investors are looking to the August jobs report on Friday to cap it off.
—Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2023
White got Angels catcher Chad Wallach swinging on four pitches, with a 89.3 mile per hour slider to cap it off, to start his outing in the fifth inning.
—Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 14 June 2023
And to cap it off, in September 1905 Einstein derived a consequence of special relativity, an equation that would become the world's most famous: E = mc2.
—Brian Greene, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
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Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
And to cap it off, we're treated to an unnecessarily graphic flashback of Cal's murder.
—Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025
With a team picture to cap it off, the moment felt nearly perfect.
—Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 15 Feb. 2025
And to cap it off, there may even be a new calculator app.
—Kyle Barr / Gizmodo, Quartz, 3 May 2024
And to cap it off, Time magazine named her Person of the Year.
—Brian Contreras, Scientific American, 8 Feb. 2024
Investors are looking to the August jobs report on Friday to cap it off.
—Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2023
White got Angels catcher Chad Wallach swinging on four pitches, with a 89.3 mile per hour slider to cap it off, to start his outing in the fifth inning.
—Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 14 June 2023
And to cap it off, in September 1905 Einstein derived a consequence of special relativity, an equation that would become the world's most famous: E = mc2.
—Brian Greene, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
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“To cap it off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/to%20cap%20it%20off. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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