Example sentences for: capitals

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

  • They reveal that he swears a lot, drives like a terror, quizzes his friends on state capitals (he was a geography major), and viciously holds a grudge.

  • Then we take a similar journey with Jackie (Watson), who, denied a proper childhood and family life, pines away in foreign capitals, behaves with increasing waywardness and vulgarity (she adopts a bogus Continental accent), and expires in near solitude, with only her loyal sister to remind her of God's love.

  • The yellow-and-white church, originally constructed in the 15th century, has a beautiful Gothic portico with carved capitals, but looks like a colonial church you might find in Brazil, due to its reconstruction and remodeling in the 18th and 19th centuries.

  • Notice the fine Corinthian capitals on the slender Greek marble columns.

  • As long as we're talking about corruption and exploitation, we should not forget that the wickedest gambling sharpies don't live in Las Vegas but in the state capitals, where the lotteries are headquartered.


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