Example sentences for: capital

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

  • With U.S. personal savings running in the negative range (net investment by the rich being more than offset by borrowing by the masses) and America ever more dependent on borrowing private capital from abroad, Greenspan concluded it would be prudent for Uncle Sam to do a little saving for us.

  • (Of course, since only huge inflows of foreign capital now allow us to fund our current-accounts deficit, we should be thankful, not angry, that foreign investors want to put their money here.)

  • But to succumb to that inclination is to reject the most important lesson taught by the triumph of capitalism, which is that markets process information, judge the future, and allocate capital far more efficiently and successfully than any individual, no matter how well-positioned, possibly can.

  • But this particular proposal is a stinker, says Margaret Carlson ( Capital Gang ), because it offers parents a mere token of tax relief ($37 per year).

  • As we have already noted, the general requirement for return on investment forces expensive capital equipment to be operated under more than single-shift conditions, unless it is essential to produce a given item.


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