How to Use time capsule in a Sentence
time capsule
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There was no cost to the city for the time capsule, according to the city.
—Mike Jones, Arkansas Online, 11 Aug. 2023
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The time capsules in the urns won’t be opened until 2044.
—Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
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But Mars is a kind of time capsule, a tableau of the way the planet used to be.
—Sarah Scoles, Wired, 18 Feb. 2021
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Filmed in the summer of 2016, the film feels like a pre-Trump time capsule.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2019
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Want to create a fun and easy time capsule of the world each week?
—courant.com, 4 June 2021
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How many of you even know that Friendswood has a time capsule?
—Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 3 July 2020
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The time capsule was found in the tower of the pedestal about 20 feet above ground level.
—David Williams, CNN, 22 Dec. 2021
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The place is a 1970s disco time capsule, and is a spectacle, to say the least.
—Lauren Yoshiko, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 July 2023
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The bottom line: Put the Times piece and this column in a time capsule.
—Axios, 11 Aug. 2024
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As with the time capsule, the answer will come only when the time is right.
—Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2016
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Patrick Nugent has been at the forefront of the time capsule.
—Olivia Green, baltimoresun.com, 29 July 2021
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Fall 1993: The Pearsons bury a time capsule at the cabin.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 26 May 2021
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The school made a video to celebrate the time capsule’s burial.
—Ruth Serven Smith | Rserven@al.com, al, 23 Feb. 2022
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Why was Slash living in a time capsule for all of those years?
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2021
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As the glacier has shrunk, by more than half since the war, its time capsule is being opened.
—The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
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But the depths of the Black Sea have turned out to be like a time capsule for ancient shipwrecks.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2018
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In Dothan, first-graders filled a time capsule with notes and letters.
—Ruth Serven Smith | Rserven@al.com, al, 23 Feb. 2022
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There is rumored to be a time capsule buried somewhere in the walls.
—Sara Tardiff, ELLE Decor, 16 June 2017
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The space stood empty in the meantime, a time capsule from a simpler world.
—Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2022
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Luckily, there's no need to dig up a time capsule to get the goods.
—refinery29.com, 16 May 2018
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There were more than a dozen messages, each a time capsule from a lost life.
—Safak Timur Emin Ozmen, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
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The time capsule was buried in 1974 in a concrete vault, Shimits said.
—Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 20 July 2021
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Take a step into a visual time capsule now, for a brief look at the year 1977.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2017
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Scraping away the layer revealed the top of a metal box, just the right size to be the time capsule.
—Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
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The Sum of All Fears is a great time capsule of action-thrillers released in the early 2000s.
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2021
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The best red-carpet dresses of 2022 can also serve as a time capsule for the year.
—Glamour, 24 Dec. 2022
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Bring items to contribute to a leap day time capsule, to be opened in four years.
—Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 25 Feb. 2024
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Hidden in the bottom half of the trophy is a hole that has become a time capsule.
—Grace Hollars, The Indianapolis Star, 19 May 2022
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The show isn’t just a portfolio of McIntosh’s skills, but a bit of a time capsule, too.
—Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 3 Feb. 2025
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These are styles that don’t stay locked in a time capsule, though; many of them can be seen worn by today’s roster of actors.
—Hannah Coates, Vogue, 1 Mar. 2025
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