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.
While they aren't exactly capacious, the new breed of clutches are surprisingly roomy. Times, Sunday Times
The rugged and capacious airframe offers plenty of scope for civilian operators.
she carried a capacious bag
The front door of the capacious old mansion stood open.
My Microsoft Outlook engine is not so capacious; messages disappear after 28 days.
With everyone decked out in capacious sportswear and complicated trainers, it's hard to tell who belongs to which group, but the cops clocking up overtime in the corner seem to have it worked out.
It is this kind of surprising observation, this capacity for affection that makes her so novels so capacious: a divorce may be announced, but so is the hissing of a gas fire.
Ark "-- by which complimentary title the capacious boat devoted to the use of the juniors of the house was known -- lazily up on the tide towards The Willoughby Captains
Edson jovially stresses the capaciousness of the genre.
Maxwell is not interested in narrowing down the genre's capaciousness. The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650-1950
The upper reaches of the deep ocean contain many bathypelagic fishes with a capacious, gas-filled swimbladder.
In a place to themselves were other treasures, a daguerreotype of his mother, a capacious huswife that Sairy had made and stocked for him, the little box of paper "to write home on" that had been Tom's present, various trifles that the three had agreed might come in handy. The Long Roll
We do not use the latter term invidiously, but merely to denote a pair of smooth, plump, highly-coloured cheeks of capacious dimensions, and a mouth rather remarkable for the fresh hue of the lips than for any marked or striking expression it presented. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people
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
The car must be capacious but not such a barge that parking becomes tricky. Times, Sunday Times
Nodding and smiling at Mr. and Mrs. Blyth, and Zack, till her vast country bonnet trembled aguishly on her head, the good woman advanced, shaking every moveable object in the room, straight to the tea-table, and enfolded Madonna in her capacious arms. Hide and Seek
So it's goodbye to chintzy bedspreads, and hello to pale wood headboards, sultry low-lit bathroom marble, capacious glass walk-in showers and whacking wicker furniture.
She, of course, was in full battle dress complete with capacious handbag. Times, Sunday Times
The dining room is capacious, as well as being an odd shape, so this adaptation should present no problems in terms of balance and feel. Times, Sunday Times
While I wouldn't necessarily argue that Uris or Wouk have the same richness of language or psychological depth as, say, John Updike or Ian McEwan, they do offer a kind of capacious private world for the reader to move around in, a lush mental landscape that can only be found in books. Peter Blauner: Where Have All The Middlebrows Gone?
The next harbour to the northward is Botany Bay, which is a capacious bay, with excellent anchorage for shipping; but the entrance is very dangerous to those commanders who are strangers to the coast. Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales
Leaving the ghâts and devotees behind him, however, and floating down the stream in his capacious three-roomed budgerow, he passed Mirzapoor, Chunar, and even the holy city of Benares, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
Munro's stories have always felt exceptionally capacious; they have the scope of novels, though without any awkward sense of speeding up or boiling down.
As she rises from a low chair at which she has been playing the clavichord, she disentangles the folds in the capacious dress which emphasises her tiny form.
The human face and the human body are simply not that capacious: the bad things we do are infinitely worse than the bad ways we look.
My first fine-dining experiences involved large napkins, a kind of capaciousness matched by great globes of glass for the wines and large plates or bowls for the food, whether a basic pasta in an Italian beach town or some architectural triumph in a two-star establishment outside of Paris, working on its third star. The Great Shrink
Sam, however, was willing to aid and abet me in strolling and lounging anywhere and at any hour, and lent a willing ear to my tales of what I saw, and had in his capacious wallet a pendent story or a spiritual precedent for anything that I could mention. Oldtown Folks
She, of course, was in full battle dress complete with capacious handbag. Times, Sunday Times
Prostrate on the ceiling he lay and watched the splendid spoonfuls tumble out of sight into the capacious throats of four men; all took their spoonfuls from the same dish, but each dipped his spoonful into his private caup of milk, ere he carried it to his mouth. Sir Gibbie
After pointing their capacious stomachs at one another, they each then crouched down and shook a leg like an arthritic sumo wrestler. The Sun
At a functional level the building is well-situated, it is capacious, and has served generations of local people well.
And there's a capaciousness that makes the book richly attractive to wander into. Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco
We therefore collected the silver, piece by piece, secreting it in "crocus" bags, which, when all was ready, we deposited in a capacious carry-all, into which we crowded. A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66,
The three storey accommodation is easily convertible to a capacious yet intimate restaurant.
A popular, capacious theatre in the city tempted many a moviegoer on a hot, sunny afternoon.
I found the suites capacious, the sofas commodious, the sandwiches copious.
We do not use the latter term invidiously, but merely to denote a pair of smooth, plump, highly – coloured cheeks of capacious dimensions, and a mouth rather remarkable for the fresh hue of the lips than for any marked or striking expression it presented. Sketches by Boz
The dining room is capacious, as well as being an odd shape, so this adaptation should present no problems in terms of balance and feel. Times, Sunday Times
In many cases moving the money from the taxpayer and straight into their admirably capacious pockets. Times, Sunday Times
This means that for a guinea you could feed two dozen trenchermen on BSE-free beef, and still have enough left over to fill a couple of capacious doggy-bags.
Persons report that near this spot is a spacious harbour, or lagune, sufficiently capacious to contain four or five hundred sail of the line; but, unfortunately, the entrance is obstructed by some rocks, which, however, it is added, might easily be blown up. Travels in Morocco
They don't address the same market, and you simply can't fit numerous albums onto even the most capacious memory card currently on the market.
In Japan, houses are very incapacious.
I know, but we lived like that, somewhere between the clenched purity of the ideal and the capacious impurities of the everyday. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Attorneys and judges in this bland, wood-paneled space all wear capacious robes patterned on the gowns of medieval European clerics.
Their tunics and cloaks are capacious and richly colored and, by the trecento, are usually decorated with gold hems and borders.
Incapacious retail outlets or eating places often beautify their rooms with mirrors on every and every wall.
The superintendent slipped her notebook and pen back into her capacious handbag to indicate the interview was over.
It is important for you not to put too many accents or ornaments in the room because it can make the small living room become much more incapacious.
The narrow-curved depression between the helix and the antihelix is called the scapha; the antihelix describes a curve around a deep, capacious cavity, the concha, which is partially divided into two parts by the crus or commencement of the helix; the upper part is termed the cymba conchæ, the lower part the cavum conchæ. X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 1. The External Ear
As a result, two views of life, so to speak, were lodged in the corporal's incapacious head: on the one hand, he could not suppress his sense of injury against the German lieutenant who had thrown down 1,500 roubles and not a kopeck more; on the other, he did not dare forget that he had been initiated by the 'directing German representatives" into the whole German espionage system, including all its agents and banks. My Life
Carrying lip gloss, keys, sunglasses, shopping lists and candy bars, all the trivia of the handbag, in its capacious elegance. Evolution - Dedicated to the Honorable Cynthia McKinney
I need a capacious automatic car that is quiet, comfortable and safe. Times, Sunday Times
The contents of E, E, together with the rinsings from the tubes, are poured into a capacious flask. 100 c.c. of the manganous sulphate and Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886
To that end, we tested a host of models and picked the exemplars of four signal sea-kayaking virtues: capaciousness, zip, ease of use, and portability.
I need a capacious automatic car that is quiet, comfortable and safe. Times, Sunday Times
Imitating it too faithfully would have killed the film's fragile momentum, but Minghella, working with the matchlessly resourceful editor Walter Murch, has tightened Frazier's ungainly tale while preserving its epic capaciousness.
They're the ones who burned through tonnes of pot and then launched a War on Drugs when they grew bored with it; they drove mighty-bowelled Mustangs and Thunderbirds in their youth, and only started worrying about the environment when they no longer needed a capacious backseat to fornicate in; they espoused and took full advantage of sexual liberation, but were safely hors de combat by the time AIDS reared its head. Archive 2009-02-01
It is our hope, with this issue, to demonstrate that scholars working in what might be termed premodern periods [medievalists, but also early modernists] have much expertise to bring to bear upon the question of the post/human, in both its material and theoretical manifestations, and also in its implications for a future that could never be entirely free of a past that, in some ways, was more capacious and theoretically provocative in its post/humanisms and post/humanist thought than we generally allow. In the Middle
Its shifts from large to small and back, its capacious ingathering of intellectual and political history, make it as rewarding as it is challenging.
But the album for which she is being rightly acclaimed, 50 Words for Snow, as well as cleverly weaving together some hauntingly beautiful melodies with a characteristically surrealist narrative, also perpetuates a widely held myth about the semantic capaciousness of the Inuit language. In praise of … Kate Bush | Editorial
Within minutes the capacious bins around the Zone are brimming with cardboard boxes, soft drink bottles and disposable cutlery.
They used its capacious rooms as office space. Times, Sunday Times
As she rises from a low chair at which she has been playing the clavichord, she disentangles the folds in the capacious dress which emphasises her tiny form.
Key figures - a woman with outstretched arms, a bull, an agonized horse - are refined in sketch after sketch, then transferred to the capacious canvas, which he also reworks several times.
It also has a capacious boot. Times, Sunday Times
Critics argued that the narrowness of Rawls's philosophical lexicon undercut the capaciousness of his moral aims, thus failing to take diversity, especially religious pluralism, seriously enough.
the capaciousness of Santa's bag astounded the child
The car must be capacious but not such a barge that parking becomes tricky. Times, Sunday Times
The van was capacious and he decided to fill up the space with a couple of sacks of fuel.
I found the suites capacious, the sofas commodious, the sandwiches copious.
Hugh used to say that Howard was a boring little suburban lawyer with a closed and not very capacious mind.
He is magically deft in the conic perspective of their open bosoms; in the glazed sheen of their blonde braided hair; in spanning the capaciousness of their tumbling satin trappings.
She filled the room with odds and ends picked up at bargain prices, capacious basket chairs, low Chinese blackwood tables, glazed ceramic bowls and jars, blue Chinese rugs, yellow curtains, and cushions made from a bale of faded silk that she had dyed herself in different colors. PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
After pointing their capacious stomachs at one another, they each then crouched down and shook a leg like an arthritic sumo wrestler. The Sun
Flapping his hands out of the capacious shirtsleeves, he brought them to his mouth, paused another instant, and then piped out: ‘Release!’
The nearby dovecote is unusually capacious, with 1,380 nesting holes.
Of course, even the most capacious tape case could hold only a teensy fraction of the music that fits in today's dinkiest MP3 players...and one of the virtues of digital music is that you don't need to buy cases for it. TIME.com: Top Stories
Noodle celebrated by projectile vomiting a whole cat's stomach's worth (a surprisingly capacious vessel) of recently ingested tuna off the top of the kitty kondo. Dogsolitude Diary Entry
Over white wine and crackers - produced by Phyllis from her capacious handbag - we debate the grim nature of some women's lives in America today.
She's that shifty woman slipping sandwiches into her capacious handbag at the buffet. Times, Sunday Times
Ay, 'tis a bit aff!" drawled "Feathery" Joltram, thrusting his great hands deep into his capacious trouser-pockets. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
In less than ten minutes from that time the sailor was within six feet of the "hammer-head's" open mouth, -- in imminent danger of being craunched between those quadruple tiers of terrible teeth, and taken into the monster's capacious maw. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
A capacious faux-raffia tote with plaited-leather handles and an optional shoulder strap reverses to reveal a coordinating shade on the back.
Reading the words of Mustafa Kemal will also help you marshal your own significant resources and talents, for you seem to be blessed with a capacious mind much like Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's. Letter to President Obama: Turkey in an Arena of Trials
a whirlwind a thousand leagues above the surface of the water, where a new atmosphere meets them and carries them into a capacious harbour in the moon -- A description of the inhabitants, and their manner of coming into the lunarian world -- Animals, customs, weapons of war, wine, vegetables, &c. The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
It also has a capacious boot. Times, Sunday Times
He is magically deft in the conic perspective of their open bosoms; in the glazed sheen of their blonde braided hair; in spanning the capaciousness of their tumbling satin trappings.
The range of Eco's interests and talents is such as to make him exemplary as a classic intellectual, for whom wide reading and capacious reflection are the distinguishing duties.
the very capaciousness of the idea meant that agreement on fundamentals was unnecessary
When I recall the capaciousness of his understanding, the breadth of his experience, the range of his information, and set them side by side with the cruel limitations imposed upon him by his blindness and by his shattered constitution, I forget the severity of his discipline, I marvel only that his self-control should have served him so well in the tedious business of breaking a new man to his service. An Adventure with a Genius
We often need to begin by disabusing our education grad students of such incapacious ways of thinking about curriculum.
He smiled and had just slipped it inside the capacious inner pocket of his coat when the door opened and Jennings appeared. Man of Honour
He smiled and had just slipped it inside the capacious inner pocket of his coat when the door opened and Jennings appeared. Man of Honour
a place was the Grotto, where Brissenden and he lounged in capacious leather chairs and drank Scotch and soda. Chapter 31
It's easier to do this in the cold weather, when I'm wearing a jacket with capacious pockets.
Just when he moved into the capacious double-cave system, among the old slate quarry workings of Castle Crag, is not certain.
The size was "snuffbox," or waistcoat pocket (capacious in 1790, see "School for Scandal," etc., Banbury Chap Books And Nursery Toy Book Literature
The novel is a simple, capacious, natural, and accessible form.
The from home business irena, capaciousness, film, and the perspective restharrow are shipboard polder of niche stormbound by a lustily overreaching druthers of fossil and we palaeobotany ugly the pharmaceutical superstition on that woodgrain. Rational Review
The from home business irena, capaciousness, film, and the perspective restharrow are shipboard polder of niche stormbound by a lustily overreaching druthers of fossil and we palaeobotany ugly the pharmaceutical superstition on that woodgrain. Rational Review
These are fundamental defects, and are usually associated with a relatively feeble digestion, weak heart and incapacious lungs.
Hugh used to say that Howard was a boring little suburban lawyer with a closed and not very capacious mind.
Unlike some other notabilities, he did not immediately unbonnet himself to display his capacious forehead, nor did he pause and look around to attract and gratify his admirers.
Each time I see Hugh, I remind him that we are a figment of his capacious imagination.
The rugged and capacious airframe offers plenty of scope for civilian operators.
The Malabar, that huge sea monster, in whose capacious belly so many human creatures lived and suffered, had dwindled to a walnut – shell, and yet beside her bulk how infinitely small had their own frail cockboat appeared as they shot out from under her towering stern! For the term of his natural life
The spiritual commons has never been more diverse or capacious, more open to new fusions of faith and belief.
Though a stranger in the house he finally isolated himself in the midst of the company, huddling into a capacious Morris chair and reading steadily from a thin volume he had drawn from his pocket.
A crucial element of Fiedler's brilliance as a critic was the generous capaciousness of his responses.
She's that shifty woman slipping sandwiches into her capacious handbag at the buffet. Times, Sunday Times
Japanese style, for both oars and sails, and are more capacious and better suited for carrying food than any other kind of oared vessel. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 1606-1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
Key figures - a woman with outstretched arms, a bull, an agonized horse - are refined in sketch after sketch, then transferred to the capacious canvas, which he also reworks several times.
It was a little room with racks of scrolls covering a wall, a low desk with a pair of capacious beanbag-style cushions, a single grubby little glazed window rimed with frost and - most welcome - a fire in the potbelly stove.
They used its capacious rooms as office space. Times, Sunday Times
His second teacher was infamous - a man with an orderly, capacious, avaricious mind, who dealt in systems and series, though was not so politic as he might have been.
He is now in his 80s and, following a number of health scares and other late-life catastrophes, finds himself in melancholic mood, planning a capacious, personal and baroquely styled critical study of some of his own abiding influences: Shakespeare, Yeats, Whitman, Emerson and Hart Crane among them. The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom – review
Calling it "capacious" and "quite spectacular," she praised the club's managers for their enforcement of drinking laws. NYT > Home Page
For Dawkins, all the same, agnosticism's embrace of a similar unknown points not to its stringency or capaciousness, but to its "poverty. Christopher Lane: Two Ways Of Thinking About Agnosticism: Hitchens vs. Dawkins
There was the case of Dr James Mackay, widely touted in the early 1990s as the leading authority on Burns and author of a capacious biography.
In capacious and bright meeting hall beaming.
This vision of a human progress at once more capacious and more humble than that asserted by modern Europe goes unelaborated.

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