Example sentences for: capacious

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

  • "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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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).


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