Example sentences for: capacious

How can you use “capacious” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The movie was beautifully restrained and accurate with respect to clothing--the peasant blouses, the swinging skirts, the smooth, side-parted hair, the garter belts and capacious underpants from a time before spandex were all deliciously heartbreaking, never exaggerated for laughs.

  • "Colonel Tom," as he is called throughout, has taken Mike under his capacious wing and seen her through detox and depression and all the rest of it, as if she were another daughter of his.

  • The result is a capacious, lofty hall suffused with soft light from the stained-glass windows.

  • The human genome is a capacious resource that will support years of intensive investigation.

  • A hulk of a man with a capacious appetite for women and red wine, Léger seemed the right choice to muscle French painting out of the cafe and the artist's studio and into the world of steel girders and factory smoke.


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