Words similar to capitals
Example sentences for: capitals
How can you use “capitals” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Like most national capitals created artificially to avoid favoring one established metropolis over another, Ottawa is the perennial butt of carping and jokes.
In an editorial Thursday, the Times of London decried the chaos afflicting international diplomacy over Kosovo, "with meetings scheduled and cancelled within hours, statements issued and promptly retracted, statesmen announcing their arrival in capitals unprepared to greet them, and leaders trying to keep telephone track of the Balkan imbroglio while locked into campaigns and duties thousands of miles away."
These are generally letter by letter (with some standardized hierarchy established for capitals, diacritics, punctuation, numerals, and other anomalies) and word by word (which, though it is not usually suitable for dictionaries, works reasonably well for certain kinds of material.
Ironically, though, it was in the United States, between 1890 and 1915, that something very close to Marx's vision of class warfare unfolded--not, as Marx might have predicted, in the nation's industrial centers or financial capitals, but in the mining and logging camps of the West.
"Paradoxical though it may seem," said La Tercera , a list of instructions to hotel staff included one printed in bold capitals that it was "forbidden to give any kind of information to anybody."