Example sentences for: capitalize

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

  • The Coca-Cola company tried to capitalize on this distinction after the financial disaster of New Coke: buyers nostalgic for the old product could purchase Classic Coke in supermarkets.

  • Weill, Peter and Broadbent, Marianne, Leveraging the New Infrastructure: How Market Leaders Capitalize on Information Technology (Harvard Business School Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 1998).

  • They all get cast, thanks to Hollywood's determination to capitalize on the baby boomlet by churning out cookie-cutter teen dramas.

  • The U.S. government was not able to capitalize on those mistakes in time to prevent 9/11.

  • Sales of tobacco pipes are booming; the pipe industry hopes to capitalize on--and supplant--cigar chic, but the Wall Street Journal says skeptics still consider pipes "tweedy and prissy."


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