capacious

How To Use capacious In A Sentence

• It houses not only a flat-screen television, DVD player, reclining leather armchair, capacious bookshelves and an L-shaped execu-desk, but also a loo and what an estate agent might call a bijou kitchenette. Life and style | guardian.co.uk
• If all those clever writers studied other writers at university, they should, in addition to producing fiction and poetry, be writing capacious essays for the mythical common reader.
• Its turrets and towers, its windows and its walls, its capacious kitchens, and its fine halls and banqueting rooms -- unspoiled by the hands of the "restorer" -- have gained for it the almost unchallenged position of being the finest baronial residence which still exists. Heiress of Haddon
• The overall impression is of a man with a warm and capacious heart and an affection for others that sustained his creative enterprises to the end.
• Bellow's letters take the reader through a long and replete – "capacious" is his wife's word for it – life. Saul Bellow's widow on his life and letters: 'His gift was to love and be loved'
• A cheerful wood-fire blazed in the capacious hearth; a little at one side an old-fashioned table, with richly-carved legs, was placed -- destined, no doubt, to receive the supper, for which preparations were going forward; and ranged with exact regularity, stood the tall-backed chairs, whose ungracefulness was more than counterbalanced by their comfort. The Purcell Papers, Volume II
• Its powerful bill enabled it to break, and its capacious, stone-supplied gizzard to digest, the hardest shells and kernels; and thus a kind of frugivorous vulture, it cleared away the decaying vegetable matter. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852
• The narrator is himself an unengaging figure whose status as a blank slate on which his friend Perkus inscribes a more capacious understanding does not make him a character with whom one wants to spend over 450 pages. Detecting a Wrongness
• Indeed, almost as wide and as deep as the car it sits on, the slide-and-tilt sunroof is so spectacularly capacious that the interior could, given a wicker chair or two and a magazine tidy, usefully double as a conservatory.
• In two grand, characteristic attributes, it is supereminent over all others: first in its universality, for it is capacious enough to receive and cherish in its paternal bosom every child that comes into the world: and second, in the timeliness of the aid it proffers, - its early, seasonable supplies of counsel and guidance making security antedate danger.