How to Use capacity in a Sentence

capacity

noun

• Does he have the capacity to handle this job?
• He was acting in his capacity as judge.
• The disease causes a deterioration of breathing capacity.
• The nightclub has a 1,000-person capacity.
• The hall reached capacity about the time Sonic Youth hit the stage.
  — Leor Galil, Chicago Reader, 23 Feb. 2018
• Check the specs to see what the snow depth capacity is for that model.
  — Bobbi Dempsey, Popular Mechanics, 14 Dec. 2022
• No one else has the capacity to do the same thing [in my opinion].
  — Rachel Burchfield, Glamour, 21 Dec. 2020
• The large size is roomy enough to seat a couple with a capacity of 500 pounds.
  — Jessica Comstock, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Jan. 2024
• The service comes in a box with a 10-pound capacity that fits about two loaves of bread.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2023
• The venue has the capacity to host a total of 12 each weekend.
  — Georgann Yara, azcentral, 17 May 2017
• The canal has lost half of its capacity, and will cost $350 million to fix.
  — Dale Kasler and Phillip Reese, sacbee, 13 July 2018
• The bar will be long, with capacity for 66 draft lines.
  — Kathy Flanigan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2020
• In its first year, the pond filled to only one-fifth of its capacity.
  — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2021
• The 35-liter capacity is enough to fit all the beach musts, from towels to sunscreen, games, and more.
  — Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 24 May 2023
• By the time the game kicked off people were turned away because the bar was at capacity.
  — Gustavo Solis, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 June 2018
• And since the car is a movable beast, the tire's dynamic load capacity must be more than up to the task.
  — Jim Resnick, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2022
• The frame can handle it all, too, with a capacity of 300 pounds.
  — Aaron Gulley, Outside Online, 4 July 2019
• The day care had a capacity of eight children and could take care of up to four infants at a time.
  — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2023
• Still, many of the parking lots at the airport were at capacity.
  — Stephen Hudak, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Dec. 2021
• The economy has the capacity to reach $5 trillion in the next few years.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, 4 July 2019
• The wards were filled to capacity and a handful of beds had more than one patient on them.
  — Fox News, 3 Oct. 2022
• That still stands as a record amount of coal capacity retired in one year.
  — Benjamin Storrow, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2019
• The West is so tough, and all of these players are playing at a high capacity.
  — Maurice Richardson, Billboard, 17 Apr. 2023
• But that was nearly triple the rate at which new lane capacity was added.
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
• The event has a capacity of 200 guests and it is nearly sold out already.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 15 Feb. 2022
• In effect, the world has lost a good bit of its shipping capacity.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 7 July 2021
• Always aim for a rack that has at least a 500-pound weight capacity.
  — Men's Health, 10 Feb. 2023
• Social services are one piece of the puzzle, but so is the capacity of the court system and jails.
  — J. Scott Trubey, ajc, 22 Aug. 2021
• For the first time in more than a decade, Shasta Lake has hit near capacity water levels in back-to-back years, according to the Bureau of Reclamation.
  — David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 17 Apr. 2024
• At one point, Arthur Andersen, with its own machines at capacity, hired a mobile shredding truck from a company called Shred-It.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024