How to Use capital-intensive in a Sentence

capital-intensive

adjective
  • This is always one of the most capital-intensive times for a launch company.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
  • E-commerce is a capital-intensive beast with unique leverage points.
    — Matthias Walter Eser, Forbes.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • After all, film is a capital-intensive business that is hit-driven.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Higher rates are considered bad for capital-intensive tech firms, which often need to raise cash to grow.
    — Ryan Browne, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The capital-intensive car business relies on economies of scale, which is why the world has so few major automakers.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Roughly 1 million units are subject to the new capital-intensive rules.
    — Diana Olick, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Altman views the proposal as a way to supply funding to capital-intensive projects.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Steel production of this kind is very capital-intensive and often has very low-margins during peacetime.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 21 Dec. 2025
  • In high-risk and capital-intensive space sectors such as launch and crewed transport, the development costs are enormous.
    — Svetla Ben-Itzhak, Space.com, 8 Mar. 2026
  • In high-risk and capital-intensive space sectors such as launch and crewed transport, the development costs are enormous.
    — Svetla Ben-Itzhak, The Conversation, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Direct-to-consumer telehealth was once a highly capital-intensive space.
    — Nia Bowers, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • The capital-intensive purchase wound up tanking Mattel’s stock price within two years.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025
  • And the more uncertainty there is, the less likely that investors or lenders will be prepared to finance capital-intensive projects.
    — The Editors, National Review, 28 Mar. 2025
  • But in practice, development would be slow and capital-intensive.
    — Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • In capital-intensive fields such as biotechnology, little has changed.
    — Vivek Wadhwa, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Clean energy supply chains are long, complex, and capital-intensive.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Bootstrapping a business is hard; bootstrapping a capital-intensive frozen food business is even harder.
    — Forbes Membership, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Brands handle their own shipping, and Flip handles the less capital-intensive business of customer service and returns.
    — Carly Olson, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Texas passed a law that enabled big projects to avoid school taxes, which helped attract chipmaking plants, wind power farms and other capital-intensive investments.
    — Mitchell Schnurman, Dallas News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The clean energy system of the future will be capital-intensive, which means that its behavior will be highly influenced by where funds are willing and able to flow.
    — Kassia Yanosek, Foreign Affairs, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Seabed nodules were located at profound depth and pressure; extracting them was therefore a complex and capital-intensive process.
    — Time, 17 June 2025
  • Bankruptcies are common in the airline industry, which is a capital-intensive business.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 1 May 2026
  • Bankruptcies are common in the airline industry, which is a capital-intensive business.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 2 May 2026
  • New cement plants are also capital-intensive and require extensive fundraising to construct.
    — Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Higher interest rates and rising costs have hurt the companies in what are often capital-intensive industries.
    — Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The first is meant to bring solutions to suppliers, and the second will help those same suppliers finance those capital-intensive improvements.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Recyclers are investing in food-grade lines and traceability systems once deemed too capital-intensive.
    — Rob Kaplan, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The chilly funding environment continues to catch up with capital-intensive climate tech startups seeking to scale.
    — Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 24 July 2024
  • Buying a professional sports team is a complicated, capital-intensive and regulated process that can take lots of time.
    — Luisa Beltran, Sportico.com, 18 Mar. 2026
  • This is especially true for companies with weaker balance sheets or those in capital-intensive industries.
    — Ivan Illan, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025

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