Example sentences for: capitalizing

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

  • Capitalizing on a truth that has long stabilized cigarette marketing and sales--namely, that if you're going to hook new smokers, you have to catch 'em young--it is one of several spots, some more controversial than others, that attack smoking.

  • Compilers of our dictionaries should stop capitalizing the words for the four Hindu castes and retain the custom only for Brahma or Brahman when it implies the Absolute.

  • Many publishers, either fearing litigation or simply because they are sensitive to questions of ownership of the printed word, prefer to take a cautions approach to trademarks, capitalizing words like Xerox, Coke , and Formica in print, though at least one major dictionary recognizes the uncapitalized form of xerox , and allows it to function as a verb.

  • Meinungsfreiheit, Weltreise , and Freizeit were descriptive nouns used in the German-speaking world well before the East German regime came into being, although it, and the Nazis before, connected the latter two with state-run programs capitalizing on the human desire to travel and have time for oneself.

  • Yesterday you warned me not to lump you with radio hosts who chide Hillary for capitalizing on her husband's fame and power.


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