Example sentences for: capacious

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

  • The piner once lived in a badger box , a makeshift shelter named in allusion to the wombat's capacious hole in the ground (the wombat being known uniquely in Tasmania as a badger, to which it bears a passing resembalance).

  • "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.

  • 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.

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


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