How to Use time capsule in a Sentence

time capsule

noun
  • So the moon can serve as a sort of time capsule.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 11 May 2026
  • Maybe the folks that left the items in the time capsule are no longer with us.
    — Eric Adler july 1, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026
  • The result is a kind of time capsule.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 15 May 2026
  • How many of you even know that Friendswood has a time capsule?
    — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 3 July 2020
  • Want to create a fun and easy time capsule of the world each week?
    — courant.com, 4 June 2021
  • It should be put in, in a time capsule -- capsule.
    — ABC News, 24 May 2026
  • The store feels less like a retail space and more like a time capsule.
    — Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
  • There were more than a dozen messages, each a time capsule from a lost life.
    — Safak Timur Emin Ozmen, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Why was Slash living in a time capsule for all of those years?
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2021
  • Black holes can be thought of as the time capsules of the Universe.
    — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • There is rumored to be a time capsule buried somewhere in the walls.
    — Sara Tardiff, ELLE Decor, 16 June 2017
  • As the glacier has shrunk, by more than half since the war, its time capsule is being opened.
    — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
  • What's inside the time capsule?
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 18 June 2026
  • Luckily, there's no need to dig up a time capsule to get the goods.
    — refinery29.com, 16 May 2018
  • The full setlist read like a late-1990s time capsule.
    — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 11 Mar. 2026
  • There was no cost to the city for the time capsule, according to the city.
    — Mike Jones, Arkansas Online, 11 Aug. 2023
  • As with the time capsule, the answer will come only when the time is right.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2016
  • Over the years, her novels have followed her like a time capsule.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
  • In Dothan, first-graders filled a time capsule with notes and letters.
    — Ruth Serven Smith | [email protected], al, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Bring items to contribute to a leap day time capsule, to be opened in four years.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Thousands of them, sitting there like a time capsule.
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Workers dug up the cement and chipped away, but couldn’t find the time capsule.
    — Jeff Gritchen, Oc Register, 30 May 2025
  • But Mars is a kind of time capsule, a tableau of the way the planet used to be.
    — Sarah Scoles, Wired, 18 Feb. 2021
  • There's odd stuff in the America250 time capsule.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 17 June 2026
  • The flagship building on the campus is a time capsule as well.
    — Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Patrick Nugent has been at the forefront of the time capsule.
    — Olivia Green, baltimoresun.com, 29 July 2021
  • The space stood empty in the meantime, a time capsule from a simpler world.
    — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Later this year, the time capsule will be buried and will not be opened again for 50 years.
    — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
  • There’s no denying that trends come and go, but that doesn’t mean your bathroom needs to be a time capsule.
    — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The school made a video to celebrate the time capsule’s burial.
    — Ruth Serven Smith | [email protected], al, 23 Feb. 2022

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