How to Use capstone in a Sentence

capstone

noun
  • The capstone project for 2026 is a caramel cake.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The event served as a capstone to a week of services and a call to action.
    Matt Brown, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Ethics and morality are the capstones; the rest must flow from there.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2019
  • The stars are the students who will showcase their capstone projects.
    Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2019
  • The tantrum, of course, was the perfect capstone to the story.
    Corey Seymour, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The April 2 concert is the capstone of the group’s first five-city tour.
    Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2022
  • And the series’s capstone, Tehanu, is worth sticking around for.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
  • That victory would be the capstone to what figured to be a wondrous week in the sprints.
    BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The opera is the magnificent capstone of one of the all-time great jazz careers.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The homegoing will serve as a capstone to a week of services held across the country.
    ABC News, 7 Mar. 2026
  • To Strassburger, the speech was a capstone of his time on the border.
    Jack Herrera, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2024
  • What happened on Friday feels like a perfect capstone to a whiplash week.
    NBC News, 14 May 2017
  • Look through these very familiar spots at the Capstone to see for yourself.
    Ben Flanagan | [email protected], AL.com, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Djokovic made no secret of his desire for an Olympic gold, as a career capstone.
    Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Each Soundwalk will include audio files and maps as well as a capstone to each project.
    oregonlive, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The most important part of the entire pyramid is that capstone.
    Karen Walker, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
  • But that would certainly be quite the capstone to Smith's career.
    ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • But why would Lee want a 360-page capstone to a movie career while still in the midst of it?
    Jake Coyle, ajc, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Game 7 will also be a capstone to a years-long drive by the league to make this kind of scenario possible.
    Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 22 June 2025
  • Calvello’s joke was a fitting capstone to what was the funniest campaign of the midterms.
    Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The $30 billion law, passed 25 years ago this month, was the capstone of their efforts.
    Marie Gottschalk, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Robert Meeropol, 77, said the memo’s release is a capstone of decades of work to clear his mother’s name.
    Eric Tucker, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Trump’s speech scheduled for Friday afternoon is the capstone of the event.
    Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2018
  • What was clear going in was that this synod could have been a capstone to Francis’s first decade as Pope.
    Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2023
  • In the era of the transfer portal, bowl games have become as much an audition stage as a season capstone.
    Ryan Pritt, Charlotte Observer, 3 Jan. 2026
  • To get such a definitive win in the final game of the season was a fitting capstone for the league’s best team.
    Hailey Salvian, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • This final, the capstone to one of the weirdest of Wimbledons, will be a contrast in styles.
    New York Times, 8 July 2022
  • The capstone or portfolio will be scored locally, but the state will score the course assessments.
    Riley Rourke, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Mueller’s tenure as special counsel was the capstone of a career spent in government.
    Eric Tucker, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Mueller's tenure as special counsel was the capstone of a career spent in government.
    Arkansas Online, 22 Mar. 2026

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