How to Use capacity in a Sentence

capacity

noun

• Does he have the capacity to handle this job?
• He was acting in his capacity as judge.
• The disease causes a deterioration of breathing capacity.
• The nightclub has a 1,000-person capacity.
• Check the specs to see what the snow depth capacity is for that model.
  — Bobbi Dempsey, Popular Mechanics, 14 Dec. 2022
• No one else has the capacity to do the same thing [in my opinion].
  — Rachel Burchfield, Glamour, 21 Dec. 2020
• By the time the game kicked off people were turned away because the bar was at capacity.
  — Gustavo Solis, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 June 2018
• That still stands as a record amount of coal capacity retired in one year.
  — Benjamin Storrow, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2019
• In its first year, the pond filled to only one-fifth of its capacity.
  — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2021
• The day care had a capacity of eight children and could take care of up to four infants at a time.
  — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2023
• But that was nearly triple the rate at which new lane capacity was added.
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
• The wards were filled to capacity and a handful of beds had more than one patient on them.
  — Fox News, 3 Oct. 2022
• The hall reached capacity about the time Sonic Youth hit the stage.
  — Leor Galil, Chicago Reader, 23 Feb. 2018
• Still, many of the parking lots at the airport were at capacity.
  — Stephen Hudak, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Dec. 2021
• The human capacity to ask how and why was starting to evolve.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 26 May 2018
• The weight capacity is not ideal for two people to share this bed.
  — Olivia Muenter, Peoplemag, 5 Feb. 2024
• In effect, the world has lost a good bit of its shipping capacity.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 7 July 2021
• The people that come and go in her life come and go in an official capacity.
  — Crocker Stephenson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2017
• And since the car is a movable beast, the tire's dynamic load capacity must be more than up to the task.
  — Jim Resnick, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2022
• Winning the deal would keep the shipyard working at capacity for years to come.
  — Lawrence Specker, AL.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Next on your punch list is the benches’ weight capacity.
  — Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 26 Aug. 2022
• Social services are one piece of the puzzle, but so is the capacity of the court system and jails.
  — J. Scott Trubey, ajc, 22 Aug. 2021
• If maximum capacity is reached, guests will be put on a list for the next event.
  — cleveland, 7 Nov. 2020
• People need their downtime and can’t run at peak capacity all the time.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
• Like it or not, shoes have the capacity to make or break your vacation.
  — Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 3 Sep. 2023
• There are just some people who tend to run cold, even when the heat is pumping at full capacity.
  — Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 14 Dec. 2019
• The brain’s capacity to heal is so much greater than what people give it credit for.
  — Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 11 Oct. 2022
• But there’s a part of me that worries about my own capacity to imagine the future.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2022
• The West is so tough, and all of these players are playing at a high capacity.
  — Maurice Richardson, Billboard, 17 Apr. 2023
• All filters need to run long enough to filter the entire pool's capacity each day.
  — Veronica Graham, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 June 2023

Last Updated: 21 Apr 2024