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
• But that was nearly triple the rate at which new lane capacity was added.
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
• No one else has the capacity to do the same thing [in my opinion].
  — Rachel Burchfield, Glamour, 21 Dec. 2020
• 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 tank has some capacity to hold in some pressure.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2026
• The capacity of cables, of course, has grown as well.
  — Samanth Subramanian, The Dial, 14 Oct. 2025
• The project would more than triple the port's barge capacity, from six to 21.
  — Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2025
• Our reporters were told the room was at capacity.
  — Mahsa Saeidi, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
• If maximum capacity is reached, guests will be put on a list for the next event.
  — cleveland, 7 Nov. 2020
• The weight capacity is not ideal for two people to share this bed.
  — Olivia Muenter, Peoplemag, 5 Feb. 2024
• The wards were filled to capacity and a handful of beds had more than one patient on them.
  — Fox News, 3 Oct. 2022
• By the time the game kicked off people were turned away because the bar was at capacity.
  — Gustavo Solis, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 June 2018
• Like it or not, shoes have the capacity to make or break your vacation.
  — Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 3 Sep. 2023
• The brain’s capacity to heal is so much greater than what people give it credit for.
  — Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 11 Oct. 2022
• In effect, the world has lost a good bit of its shipping capacity.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 7 July 2021
• The human capacity to ask how and why was starting to evolve.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 26 May 2018
• 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
• It is still used in that capacity today.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 19 Feb. 2026
• 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
• People need their downtime and can’t run at peak capacity all the time.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
• Still, many of the parking lots at the airport were at capacity.
  — Stephen Hudak, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Dec. 2021
• Though Ukraine might be able to move faster, building up capacity would still take years.
  — Elise Spenner, ABC News, 9 July 2026
• All the first through fourth grade classes are at capacity, Gilbart said.
  — Kristen Griffith, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 4 Dec. 2021
• The service comes in a box with a 10-pound capacity that fits about two loaves of bread.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2023
• The people that come and go in her life come and go in an official capacity.
  — Crocker Stephenson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2017