How to Use capacious in a Sentence

capacious

adjective
  • Soul Cap’s headwear is more capacious, and comes in sizes up to XXL.
    Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 1 July 2021
  • Doors that open nine inches wider than the five-door's allow easy access to the capacious rear seat.
    Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 17 July 2023
  • Instead, the new gallery is capacious, giving the objects room to breathe.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 Mar. 2021
  • In the more capacious world of fiction, at least, many couples grow too close for comfort.
    Mallika Rao, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Ottomans come as small cubes, capacious benches, rounds of all sizes, and big squares.
    Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2022
  • It was fitted out with radio, phone, TV, and Geiger counter, and capacious enough for 15 people to spend 30 days.
    Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Hyundai and Kia are closing the gap in this regard, though, and both the Palisade and Telluride are more capacious for people and stuff.
    Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Like its less capacious cousin, this is the all-time low for this card, which cost as much as $40 in early September.
    Ian Paul, PCWorld, 30 Oct. 2018
  • These moments make a small show feel capacious, a welcoming place in which to change your mind.
    Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2021
  • The handmade-to-order, the capacious messenger style makes a great city bag.
    Vogue, 3 June 2022
  • Many warehouses are so capacious that a round-trip walk to the restroom might eat up 10 to 15 minutes.
    Caitlin Harrington, Wired, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Here’s her garden, a capacious world where even the worst parts of reality can feel a bit like a fairy tale.
    Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2022
  • This novel is quite capacious, and a lot of critics have noticed this.
    Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2019
  • On the other end of the sofa, Frank Thomas, for now the only Hall of Famer in the room, has his capacious white dress shirt unbuttoned to his sternum.
    Ben Reiter, SI.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • There are even compartments which are capacious enough to fit bulky items like helmets and ski boots.
    Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Many go to contractors, construction workers, and the like: folks who need their beds and capacious torque to get a job done.
    Wired, 21 Nov. 2019
  • With seating for five, the spacious back seat and capacious cargo area are useful on road trips.
    Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The Corvette's capacious rear trunk should continue to provide a spot for drivers to carry two sets of golf clubs.
    Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 28 Aug. 2023
  • And the stuff, like that smooth and capacious panoramic sunroof, works really well.
    Robert Duffer, chicagotribune.com, 9 Oct. 2017
  • The ones Pennes designed are at once capacious but slim, and reinforced for lasting strength.
    Sunset Staff, Sunset Magazine, 12 Dec. 2020
  • The hub of the apartment is the capacious kitchen-cum–dining room—a specific request from the client, who likes to host large lunches and dinners on the weekends.
    Ian Phillips, ELLE Decor, 21 Aug. 2015
  • The hub of the apartment is the capacious kitchen-cum–dining room—a specific request from the client, who likes to host large lunches and dinners on the weekends.
    Ian Phillips, ELLE Decor, 15 May 2023
  • The tone is so big, so capacious and resonant because Martin and Emerick thought to put the recorder on half speed.
    Nicholas Dawidoff, The Atlantic, 18 May 2017
  • Even the bathrooms are capacious, and staffed with attendants.
    Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019
  • The plotless performance begins in the capacious front room, then soon moves into the bi-level back room.
    Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2018
  • What had been royal land became public parks, or capacious and leafy squares.
    Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Two hours before the party, Shannon is sitting cross-legged on the oak floor in the capacious room that serves as an all-in-one living room, dining room, and kitchen.
    Eric Sullivan, Esquire, 5 Oct. 2017
  • There’s no charge to explore a 4.5-acre terrain where the capacious dog park rivals the multi-level playground in size.
    John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 May 2022
  • Ludicrously capacious bags — the best kind — were slung around models’ shoulders at Burberry’s spring 2025 show.
    Violet Goldstone, WWD, 17 Sep. 2024
  • This two-story house offers a capacious living environment with its four bedrooms and three baths.
    Bay Area Home Report, The Mercury News, 8 Oct. 2024

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