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 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.

  • His capers range from casual break-ins to armed holdups to intricate jewel heists--the latter capped with an impudent visit to the police station to establish an alibi.

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

  • The lexicographic mind, Ambrose Bierce observed in one of his newspaper columns, is a merely human affair and will occasionally cut its capers.


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