How to Use capital in a Sentence

capital

1 of 2 adjective
  • Homicide that occurs during the course of an attempted kidnapping is a capital crime in some states.
  • His handwritten capital S's look a lot like lowercase s's.
  • The report defines the ranking of non-capital cities with a population under eight million.
    — Sonia Ramirez, Houston Chronicle, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Another criticism was that the wealth tax drove tax avoidance, especially in the form of capital flight to offshore tax havens.
    — Miranda Sheild Johansson, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2026
  • State courts recently ruled that only non-capital portions of death sentences could be removed, reducing sentences but not removing the death penalty.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 20 Dec. 2025
  • The future of climate finance depends on capital structural resilience, not temporary liquidity.
    — Vinesh Karthic Padmanabhan, Forbes.com, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Magistrates typically conduct initial appearances for defendants, while also performing tasks such as setting release conditions for non-capital offenses and issuing arrest warrants.
    — Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Xiong’an New Area, a flagship development launched in 2017 to absorb non-capital functions from Beijing and knit together the Beijing‑Tianjin‑Hebei region, has entered a new phase of build‑out and operations, according to recent dispatches from Chinese state media.
    — Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2026

capital

2 of 2 noun
  • Will more of Dubai’s own capital now stay at home?
    — Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The medicine isn’t more capital.
    — Judah Taub, semafor.com, 13 Feb. 2026
  • What’s changed is the role private debt now plays in the capital stack.
    — Dave Smith, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Dozens of drones were downed en route to the capital, its mayor said.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2025
  • But let’s face it, there isn’t a handy pool of capital just waiting for these three.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 5 Apr. 2026
  • But that kind of capital needed to get a business off the ground?
    — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Some of that project still survives as part of a suburb of the capital.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 1 May 2026
  • The trio hails from Quito, which is the capital of Ecuador.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 19 June 2026
  • McGhee lives near the capital of Bahrain now.
    — Celia Fernandez raffi Paul, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2026
  • All three were charged with capital murder.
    — Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The question isn’t whether capital will move.
    — Billy Bambrough, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • In the capital Beirut, walls bear the scars of conflicts past.
    — Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 21 Mar. 2026
  • That mix of weak prices and high costs has throttled capital spending.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Jerusalem is the jewel of our hearts and our eternal capital.
    — Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Jerusalem is the jewel of our hearts and our eternal capital.
    — Morgan Phillips, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • At the peak, about half of its customers in and near the capital city lost power.
    — Arkansas Online, 31 Jan. 2026
  • At some point, draft capital might be required for a reset.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 June 2026
  • Don’t write for the world, don’t write to be a writer with a capital W.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Texas should be the green energy capital of the world.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
  • The project has been financed to date with the brothers’ own capital.
    — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Here's what's next for the nation's capital.
    — Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Miles and Davis were charged with capital murder.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Nvidia is supplying the capital to buy its chips.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
  • And the owners brought in outside capital to help.
    — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The name comes from the idea of putting someone 'on a throne' to boost your own clout/social capital.
    — Charles Trepany, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The company has used the capital to back a much pricier slate of films.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Here are summaries of what has taken place in the capital region so far this year.
    — Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 3 Apr. 2026
  • There is no pool of capital waiting around in the S & P for them.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Paris was — more than ever — the capital of fashion.
    — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Iran had stated that any attack on the Lebanese capital would amount to war.
    — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 7 June 2026

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