Example sentences for: capital

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

  • If you catch the ball and sell it, well obviously, you owe capital gains tax on the proceeds--which, given estimates that the magic ball could fetch upwards of $1 million, means a check to the IRS for nearly $400,000.

  • “Madrid is the capital of Spain,” the saying went, “but Sevilla is the capital of the world.”

  • 9 Human Capital: A SelfAssessment Checklist for Agency Leaders (GAO/GGD99179, September 1999).

  • Over 90 percent of its land is uninhabited, contrasting with great centers of population, including the capital, Cairo, which is the largest city in Africa — a dusty, noisy, sprawling, neon-lit, crowded metropolis of more than fourteen million people.

  • In the postwar years, all the Asian tigers have enjoyed enormously high savings rates, rapid increases in the percentage of people participating in the work force, excellent education, and enormous investments in physical capital.


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