Example sentences for: capers

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

  • The mainstream lexicographic minds that cut far and away the most capers to relieve the drudgery are those that have compiled Chambers English Dictionary over the decades [Edinburgh; latest edition, 1988].

  • The book is said to display Leonard's usual "flair for characters and capers" (Henry Louis Gates, The New Yorker ) and period detail.

  • One moment, creatures are blowing one another away in gun battles that have all the suspense and emotional weight of custard-pie fights, while a queenie talk-show host (Chris Tucker) shrieks and capers for the groundlings.

  • ' One who capers around is likened to leaping like a deer.

  • The scenes of planning terrorist operations in Odd Man Out , The Devil's Own , and Jordan's The Crying Game (1992) are almost identical to the scenes in gangster films like The Killing (1956) and The Asphalt Jungle (1950), where the hoodlums carefully put together their capers.


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