How to Use cap in a Sentence

cap

1 of 2 noun

• And red caps no longer stayed on.
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 31 May 2026
• How big was the bow on her cap?
  — Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
• Even a hater has to tip her cap.
  — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025
• There would be hard caps for each draft.
  — Ronald Blum, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2026
• At that time, records show, his cap fell off.
  — Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2026
• At that time, records show, his cap fell off.
  — Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 19 Feb. 2026
• The caps will still fly this June.
  — Josh D Shapiro, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2026
• What a tweet this would have made, caps and all.
  — Matthew Redmond, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025
• There is more work to be done to clear cap space.
  — Calvin Watkins mar. 1, Dallas Morning News, 1 Mar. 2026
• That means they are left out of state cost-cap bills.
  — ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
• Adames hacked and sent the pitch straight off his left knee cap.
  — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
• Max out taxable wages up to the cap.
  — Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 28 Apr. 2026
• But the higher cap comes with a catch.
  — Robert Green, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
• Start with your cap table this week.
  — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
• Strike out three times against Skubal, tip your cap.
  — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2026
• Mushrooms have a stalk and cap.
  — Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Apr. 2026
• Yeah, does that cap ever go down?
  — Doug Dunbar, CBS News, 13 June 2026
• The cap just seems unchained now.
  — Jeremy Rutherford, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
• But it could be done under cap rules.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 28 May 2026
• The bill of his ball cap obscured his gaze.
  — David Remnick, New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2026
• Then, there is the salary cap issue.
  — Michelle Kaufman may 22, Miami Herald, 22 May 2026
• Then there’s roster churn to fit the cap.
  — Evan Drellich, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
• But a cap could reduce those wait times.
  — Evan Drellich, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
• Hair caps need even more patience.
  — Allison Palmer updated June 24, Miami Herald, 24 June 2026
• Hair caps need even more patience.
  — Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 18 June 2026
• Bottom line, keep an eye on small-cap stocks here.
  — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2026
• Things have been looking good for small-cap stocks of late.
  — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
• It’s named for its acorn cap that covers most of the fruit.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 3 Sep. 2025
• Large cap stocks have been crushing small caps in the last few years.
  — Michael Foster, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
• The main thing remains the main thing, and that is the salary cap.
  — Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026

cap

2 of 2 verb

• Be sure to cap the pen when you are done using it.
• If the teams don't cap player salaries, the league won't survive.
• The government wants to cap councils that spend too much.
• The report caps a ten-year study of lung cancer among nonsmokers.
• The law would cap legal immigration.
• All was capped off by a dance party.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 21 Apr. 2026
• Schafer capped off the look with a pair of five-toed trompe-l’œil shoes.
  — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2024
• Clark capped off quite a turnaround from a year ago.
  — Doug Ferguson, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2026
• First, download speeds are capped…sort of.
  — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 8 Mar. 2026
• Over time, that friction caps growth.
  — David Heacock, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2026
• The group has pushed to speed up capping idle wells.
  — Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2026
• Panther capped off the match with a toss from the top rope.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2026
• Knight capped the run by being set up to the left of the net.
  — John Wawrow, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2026
• The project plowed through tar and oil wells that needed to be capped.
  — Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 7 May 2026
• If the firebox has a gas line, that will need to be capped off.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
• The peaks are still snow-capped, and the valleys start to turn green.
  — Maryam Siddiqi, Travel + Leisure, 23 May 2026
• Gómez capped the scoring in the 87th minute.
  — ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026
• Those would cap how much money some gamblers can lose.
  — Karen Brown, NPR, 30 Sep. 2025
• Some deliver quick wins but cap out fast.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
• Schwarber capped it with his second homer of the night.
  — Matt Gelb, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
• But by my count, the crowd capped out at a couple hundred.
  — Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
• Musa capped the scoring in the fifth minute of stoppage time.
  — ABC News, 14 Mar. 2026
• Musa capped the scoring in the fifth minute of stoppage time.
  — Apress, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
• There didn’t appear to be a better way to cap off the week.
  — Ryan Gaydos Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026
• Biel capped the scoring in the third minute of stoppage time.
  — ABC News, 7 Mar. 2026
• And bills intended to cap rents have not fared well in the past.
  — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2026
• Call it a silver lining, and a bonus present to cap off the night.
  — Ben Pickman, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
• When those rates are capped, lenders are forced to tighten their standards.
  — Julio Fuentes, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2026
• Chawinga then capped off the night in the third minute of stoppage time with a goal of her own.
  — Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
• Michael Massey drove in Díaz to cap the inning.
  — ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026