NOUN
- the government building in Washington where the United States Senate and the House of Representatives meet
How To Use Capitol Building In A Sentence
- Agents in black suits stood on the steps of the Capitol building to make sure the mass of malcontent demonstrators didn't barge inside.
- Chief Justice Roger Taney read the decision in the small courtroom in the Capitol building.
- Soldiers bivouacked inside the half-built Capitol building, the unfinished dome leaving them open to the night skies. Michael Giltz: The Civil War Rages On...In Books, Music and DVD
- The monument is located between the Capitol building, which houses the state legislature, and the building that houses the state Supreme Court.
- There should be only one penalty for unethical behavior of any kind by an elected official: public hanging, preferably from a lamppost outside the Capitol building. Conyers' office reacts to reports of wife's guilty plea
- Andy Manis/Associated Press BLOWING UP: Wisconsinite Steve Laubach blew up an air mattress before going to sleep outside the capitol building in Madison, Wis., Wednesday. Photos of the Day: March 3
- Similar to the curving rotundas of many capitol buildings, but, crucially, allowing in more daylight, it is monumental without losing its human scale.
- (Note: Government offices moved to a new National Capitol Building complex located at Ngerulmud, Melekeok State.) Undefined
- Moved along by a gaggle of television cameras, overhead microphones and klieg lights, Roland Burris of Illinois entered the Capitol Building today even though the Senate leadership had refused to seat him as the replacement for Barack Obama. Burris Enters, Then Leaves the Capitol - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
- Instead, it's through the mediation of the new Capitol building's role as a cultural force -- one iconically reproduced on currency, commemorated in tacky souvenirs, and glimpsed through grubby windows from the backseats of cars -- that the presence of his future makes itself felt. Boing Boing
