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Example sentences for "cap"

Lexicographically close words:
canzone; canzonet; canzonets; caol; caoutchouc; capa; capabilities; capability; capable; capables
  1. My dear Uncle Evie, I'm as serious as a judge with a black cap on, and if you like I'll prove that I mean what I say.

  2. Mrs. Eames took off her bathing cap and ran her fingers through her hair as if deeply pondering.

  3. She put on her bathing cap and plunged into the pool again.

  4. Mamma looked strange and sunken and rather yellow in a widow's cap and a black knitted shawl, but Aunt Bella had turned herself into a large, comfortable sheep by means of a fleece of white shawl and an ice-wool hood peaked over her cap.

  5. Miss Kendal was wearing black ribbons in her cap instead of pink.

  6. A lace cap with pink ribbons perched on her smooth, ashy blond hair.

  7. He hurried to a niche in the wall and handed me the tunic of the Martians with its girdle of blue cord and its cap and shoes of the blue metal exquisitely wrought and light.

  8. The mass of the northern snow cap of Mars is, on the other hand, centered almost exactly upon its pole.

  9. But one cannot doubt, in such a case, that the fixed portion of such a cap would be reduced to a much smaller size, than we see it to-day.

  10. To one end of the body a cap is secured, and to the other end a rectangular cast iron frame is fitted, to which a cast iron door is hinged.

  11. The bucket wheel is formed of curved and inclined buckets arranged around a hub, and applied to a cap ring and a skirting.

  12. Johnson remained on his horse, while Clodfelter went in and obtained a pair of blankets, and a cap and a coat for Johnson.

  13. The hat which had played the part of a hangman's cap was removed before the crowd dispersed and the countenance was found to have changed but little.

  14. The seven or eight hundred miles across the plains to Laramie City were traversed without incident, and the desperado was lodged at last in jail--another feather in Mr. Boswell's cap and that of the Rocky Mountain detective force.

  15. At the conclusion of his speech the black cap was adjusted, and at 2:20 Sheriff Cramer cut the rope.

  16. The black cap was pulled down over his eyes.

  17. These passed on and another regiment followed, the sight of the brave fellows sending a thrill through the boy, making him lean out from beneath the waggon tilt to take off his cap and cry hurrah.

  18. The sound of that bright shrill voice cheering the men on made them turn to look whence it came, and at the sight of the waving cap and its excited owner a laugh ran along the ranks and the men cheered again.

  19. Two men, Cap Saunders and Harvey Anderson, the latter down left, the former to the right and farther back, are slowly coming forward.

  20. Here one might well fancy himself, from the surroundings, transferred by Fortunatus's wishing cap into the tropics.

  21. The royal crown is a cap of rich purple velvet, enclosed in hoops of silver, and surmounted by a ball and cross of splendid diamonds.

  22. A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church.

  23. A cap or hood with pieces covering the ears.

  24. A broad, flat Scottish cap of blue woolen, or one wearing such cap; a Scotchman.

  25. Around the edge of this cap was a stiff bandeau of leather.

  26. A coarse kind of thick woolen cloth, worn by the poor in the Middle Ages; also, a woolen cap or hood worn over the shoulders or over the head.

  27. The trap of a sink is usually two inches in diameter, and should be near the sink; it should have a screw cap for cleaning and inspection, and the branch vent pipe should be at the crown of the trap.

  28. The top or cap of this mushroom is white, or of varying shades of brown, and measures from one and a half to three or even four inches in diameter.

  29. The cap and the tough and tubular stem are buff, and the gills, few in number and bulging out in the middle, are of a lighter shade of the same color.

  30. The gills end with abrupt upward curves at the center of the cap without being attached to the stem.

  31. The under surface of the cap is brown or blackish in the mature plants of poisonous species.

  32. The top or cap does not expand in this mushroom, until it begins to turn black, but remains folded down about the stem like a closed umbrella.

  33. The gills and stem are white like the preceding, but the cap is usually not dotted but glossy, white, greenish, or yellow.

  34. The cap is variously colored, white, orange, yellow, or even brilliant red, and dotted over with corklike particles or warty scales which are easily rubbed off.

  35. The inside of the cap or gills and the stem are snow white.

  36. To-day I did show Minerva the little cap with ruffles on it that I have just made for her to wear to the cathedral at their christening.

  37. I took off Minerva's cap so it would be clean for cathedral service on Sundays.

  38. And there is the little cap that Dear Love did make for my Louis II, le Grand Conde.

  39. In a bush that I do tie pieces of suet to, there was a little gray bird with a black cap and his throat it was black.

  40. They was glad we was come, and they had likes for Minerva's little cap with the ruffles around it like the morning-cap of Jenny Strong.

  41. And there is Minerva's white cap that she does wear to cathedral service with the ruffles on it like are on the morning cap of Jenny Strong.

  42. Little gray one of the black cap has likes for suet.

  43. Sometimes Brave Horatius does wear this cap that was the cap of the husband of Dear Love.

  44. When I did have that cap tied on in a nice way, he did bark a joy bark, and he gave his tail three wags, and we did start to go to the house of Dear Love.

  45. Then I did stop to straighten up Minerva's cap with the ruffles on it.

  46. Dear Love had thinks the appears of the cap of her husband on the head of Brave Horatius was very nice.

  47. What happier result could be expected from their new joint work than that which posterity deplores in The Cap and Bells?

  48. Before Keats's deepening despondency and recklessness caused him to drop writing altogether, which apparently happened early in December, he was evidently out of conceit with The Cap and Bells.

  49. The silk lining she put in my travelling cap scalds my head.

  50. It would seem that as late as November 17th he was still, or had quite lately been, going on with The Cap and Bells.

  51. Early in the time he speaks of intending soon to begin (meaning begin again) on The Cap and Bells.

  52. Brown then tells of his morning and evening work on The Cap and Bells and the revised Hyperion and, in the vague terms I have quoted, of its cessation.

  53. Mlle, de Fermont, dressed in a cap of the hospital, was leaning her head languidly on the bolster of the bed.

  54. A small black cap covered the crown of his head, while his long gray locks hung down over the collar of his greatcoat.

  55. He lifted his foraging cap most ceremoniously to salute us as we came up, and casting an anxious look to see if any others were following, stood quite still.

  56. He would no more think of sporting it as an every-day affair, than the chief-justice would go cook-shooting in his black cap and ermine.

  57. With your red scarlet coat, You're as proud as a goat, And your long cap and feather.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cap" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acme; apex; apogee; back; beard; belly; best; better; bevel; bewilder; blanket; body; boot; brow; cap; capital; case; climax; cloak; coat; cob; coif; complete; conclude; confound; confuse; consummate; cork; counter; cover; crest; crown; culminate; culmination; device; dome; edge; end; exceed; excel; extremity; face; finish; firecracker; fireworks; font; frost; fuse; garment; generator; gown; groove; hat; head; headdress; headgear; heading; headpiece; heaven; height; hood; ice; improve; jacket; letter; lid; ligature; limit; mantle; maximum; meridian; millinery; mountaintop; nick; noon; outdo; outstrip; outweigh; overcast; overcome; overlay; overpass; overspread; parts; peak; perfect; perplex; pica; pinhead; pinnacle; pitch; point; pole; pose; predominate; preponderate; prevail; primer; priming; print; puzzle; relay; ridge; roof; script; shank; shoe; shoulder; sky; sock; spire; squib; stamp; stem; stopper; summit; surmount; surpass; terminate; tip; top; topknot; transcend; trump; type; upmost; utmost; vertex; zenith


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    caper sauce; capillary attraction; capital account; capital city; capital crime; capital district; capital employed; capital fellow; capital goods; capital invested; capital letter; capital letters; capital offence; capital punishment; capital stock; capitalist production; capitalist society; capped mountains; captain bold; captain over; captive balloon; captive register; capture the; capture them; caput mortuum