How to Use capable in a Sentence

capable

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• The final winners of the night proved that the show is still capable of a plot twist.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2024
• There are some pretty capable camper vans out there, but this 4×4 will leave them in the dust.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2023
• The burden is on the left to show Biden is capable of handling himself.
  — Fox News, 6 June 2024
• That’s not to say that the Giants aren’t capable of a return to top form by a dozen or more players.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2023
• While the top two appear locked in — the Bills and the Chiefs — the surging Bengals are still capable of crashing the party.
  — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Dec. 2022
• The app is capable of programming up to 4,000 lights at once.
  — Gabriel Morgan, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Aug. 2023
• The new drone is capable of flying at speeds of 45 miles per hour and is small enough to fit into the trunk of a police car.
  — WIRED, 26 Sep. 2023
• Just young people who, with a bit of support, can be capable of a great deal.
  — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2024
• The film showed what the Warriors are capable of in transition.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
• The organizing wave of the past year has shown what food unions are capable of, clearing the way for fights to come.
  — Nico Avalle, Bon Appétit, 15 Dec. 2022
• Still, the wagon is capable of hauling heavy loads up to 150 pounds — plenty for all types of gear.
  — goodhousekeeping.com, 8 Apr. 2023
• The brawny mill is mated to a four-speed automatic and is capable of pushing the limo to a top speed of 142 mph.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 7 Jan. 2025
• Cameron is capable of creating great art, but The Way of Water is not art at all.
  — WIRED, 6 Jan. 2023
• The goal is to have those guys bring the best out of each other, and these three athletes are certainly capable.
  — Dallas News, 9 Feb. 2023
• One motor in the back of the car and two more in the front will be capable of producing at least 800 horsepower on their own.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 20 June 2024
• The 1970s wasn’t a great decade for the studio, but songs like this show that Disney was still capable of creative wonder.
  — Barry Levitt, TIME, 27 Nov. 2024
• The guys coming off the bench, some of them, like Micah (Parrish), were capable of being starters.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2023
• As such, the rugged workhorse is capable of traveling to farms miles from the coastline.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 31 Jan. 2024
• Everyone who saw the debate knows that Biden isn’t capable of handling the toughest job in the world.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 6 July 2024
• That makes storms capable of dumping enormous amounts of rain over land.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2024
• The Pilots are part of a fantastic Marine League, where any of the teams are capable of winning the title.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
• It was propelled by four paddling appendages and might have been capable of speeds of 30 mph.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
• Bill Thomas, who is eighty-one years old and lives in Bakersfield, is still capable of making news.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
• Turner will get most of his at-bats as the DH but is certainly capable of filling in at the corners.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2023
• Instead, the strongest storms could have wind gusts capable of downing trees and power lines, hail and heavy rain.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 11 May 2023
• This contraption is capable of making safe passage through the Fold, so long as no one makes a sound or lights a lantern.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 16 Mar. 2023
• Plus, the Golden Eagles don’t just throw it, as shifty running back Jack Blais is capable of grind-it-out runs as well as huge bursts.
  — Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 6 Nov. 2024
• Today’s top-end handsets are capable of sending the same sounds to two pairs of wireless headphones at the same time.
  — David Nield, Popular Science, 28 June 2023
• Both Premier League stars are capable of playing as a central target man but are most comfortable on the left wing.
  — Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
• The page says that the family did not believe the accused was capable of the act before the incident and says that the family suffered two losses that day.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 23 Jan 2025