How to Use capitol in a Sentence

capitol

noun

• The trimaran-style ship is 418 feet long and bears the name of Maine’s capitol.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
• He's shown being sworn in on the steps of the capitol building.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 29 Sep. 2022
• One new listing in the nation’s capitol may be for you.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 10 Mar. 2023
• The 2011 maps had been drawn in secret, in a locked wing of a law firm across the street from the Wisconsin state capitol.
  — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2023
• The capitol building isn’t far, but the way is treacherous.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
• Katima Smith-Willis, 26, stands on the steps of the Kentucky capitol.
  — Chiara Brown, Vogue, 22 Aug. 2022
• There's a lot of bad teams at the top of this draft not in position to give away future draft capitol.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2023
• It’s 1901 at the Alabama capitol, one of those spring days in May when the weather can’t decide what to be.
  — al, 5 Dec. 2022
• There is palpable excitement in the halls of the state capitol.
  — Corey Deangelis, National Review, 1 Apr. 2023
• The county is about 50 miles southwest of Charleston, the state capitol, and rests along the Virginia border.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 3 June 2023
• Upon seizing the capitol, the Taliban were quick to shutter schools for girls.
  — Karina Tsui, Washington Post, 27 July 2022
• The town is about 50 miles southeast of Bogota, the county's capitol.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
• Demonstrators had flooded the state capitol in the wake of a March 2023 school shooting in Nashville.
  — Fin Gómez, CBS News, 2 June 2023
• Willis appears to be focused on those who planned and led the elector meeting in the state capitol in Atlanta.
  — Amy Gardner, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
• As soon as the ferry docked in Juneau on July 23, Barnes rode his bicycle straight to the capitol building.
  — Fox News, 1 Sep. 2022
• In Colorado, residents marched to the State capitol to protest rising rent costs.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 20 July 2022
• But the people of Arizona did not send us to this capitol to solve easy problems or to leave them to the next generation.
  — The Arizona Republic, 10 Jan. 2023
• During her visit to the capitol, Davis wondered: Where were the lawmakers who looked like her?
  — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 11 Jan. 2024
• Had that group not made their daring bid for freedom, the capitol likely would have remained a slave city into the war years.
  — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2023
• Like the statue of Davis on the capitol steps, this thing was put here — moved to this block in 1921 — to deliver a message across generations.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 3 Nov. 2022
• Still, many are also vowing to stay and defend their rights, gathering to protest at the state capitol, and showing up at pride events.
  — Lori Rozsa, Washington Post, 10 June 2023
• The history of the property dates to the 1880s when the state of Texas sold land in the panhandle to Chicago buyers to finance its new capitol building in Austin.
  — Dallas News, 5 July 2022
• Here's a look back at the history of Indiana's state capitol building.
  — Kaitlin Lange, The Indianapolis Star, 6 July 2022
• Downtown Montpelier, a city of 8,000, was swamped between the capitol building and the Winooski River.
  — Lisa Rathke and John Minchillo, Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2023
• The family explored all the sights of the nation's capitol as Ribeiro also prepped for hosting duties for A Capitol Fourth.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 5 July 2023
• About 300 students showed up at the capitol, doubling the presence from last year, for a press conference and rally held on Wednesday.
  — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
• State capitol buildings in at least six states were forced to evacuate after bomb threats on Wednesday.
  — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 4 Jan. 2024
• San Jose, its capitol, is historic, safe, and stable; but far from cosmopolitan.
  — Peter Lane Taylor, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2023
• She will be sworn into office at the state capitol on Dec. 5, and all election results will be certified by Dec. 8.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2022
• Thousands of protesters had packed the state capitol to protest Tennessee gun laws.
  — Sanya Mansoor, Time, 4 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024