How to Use capacious in a Sentence
capacious
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But the book’s gaze is capacious and at times wayward.
—Rachel Vorona Cote, Vulture, 2 June 2026
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Ottomans come as small cubes, capacious benches, rounds of all sizes, and big squares.
—Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2022
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This novel is quite capacious, and a lot of critics have noticed this.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2019
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These moments make a small show feel capacious, a welcoming place in which to change your mind.
—Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2021
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There are even compartments which are capacious enough to fit bulky items like helmets and ski boots.
—Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2023
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In the more capacious world of fiction, at least, many couples grow too close for comfort.
—Mallika Rao, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2019
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What had been royal land became public parks, or capacious and leafy squares.
—Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2018
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The capacious battery lasts for up to 25 hours on a single charge.
—K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 1 Nov. 2024
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Doors that open nine inches wider than the five-door's allow easy access to the capacious rear seat.
—Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 17 July 2023
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Instead, the new gallery is capacious, giving the objects room to breathe.
—BostonGlobe.com, 24 Mar. 2021
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Then, keep scrolling for more capacious boots like a trendy, square-toe pair in light brown and a chunky platform option in black.
—Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
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With seating for five, the spacious back seat and capacious cargo area are useful on road trips.
—Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 5 Sep. 2023
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Krissie noticed that each inmate had worn a jacket capacious enough to be stuffed with leftovers.
—Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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While ethics probably comes closest in meaning, aram seems to me a far more capacious word.
—Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025
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Here’s her garden, a capacious world where even the worst parts of reality can feel a bit like a fairy tale.
—Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2022
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Adding a capacious walk-in pantry has become de rigeur in kitchen renovations.
—Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2022
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As a bonus, its teardrop shape yielded a roomy and capacious interior.
—Brett Berk, Good Housekeeping, 4 Apr. 2023
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The handmade-to-order, the capacious messenger style makes a great city bag.
—Vogue, 3 June 2022
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Even the bathrooms are capacious, and staffed with attendants.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019
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And the stuff, like that smooth and capacious panoramic sunroof, works really well.
—Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 9 Oct. 2017
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The ones Pennes designed are at once capacious but slim, and reinforced for lasting strength.
—Sunset Staff, Sunset Magazine, 12 Dec. 2020
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Soul Cap’s headwear is more capacious, and comes in sizes up to XXL.
—Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 1 July 2021
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Mendes coordinated the dress with a pair of white heels, bold cream sunglasses and a capacious bag.
—Julia Teti, WWD, 7 Aug. 2024
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The plotless performance begins in the capacious front room, then soon moves into the bi-level back room.
—Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2018
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In other words, no one wants to be that Bridget with the ludicrously capacious bag.
—House Beautiful, 26 May 2023
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The Corvette's capacious rear trunk should continue to provide a spot for drivers to carry two sets of golf clubs.
—Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 28 Aug. 2023
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Like its less capacious cousin, this is the all-time low for this card, which cost as much as $40 in early September.
—Ian Paul, PCWorld, 30 Oct. 2018
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D’Angelo’s talent was always more capacious than that label.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2025
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The scene demonstrates Courtney’s capacious approach to metaphor.
—Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
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My graduate students took me out for my birthday, to an outdoor rib joint and to a lesbian-leaning bar with a capacious dance floor.
—Mary Gaitskill, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
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