How to Use capo in a Sentence

capo

noun
  • This model is beloved on Amazon and includes online lessons, a case, strap, capo, and strings.
    Editors Of Men's Health, Men's Health, 4 May 2022
  • East clamped a capo on his guitar, hoping that changing the key might make the chords ring a little differently.
    Tom Roland, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Ana’s help to set up a sit-down between Vicious and an ambitious fellow capo named Mao Yenrai.
    Scott Meslow, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2021
  • Reid Fisher of San Martin, Calif., usually travels with a capo.
    Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2021
  • But not before laying out cold a disrespectful young capo and thereby painting a target on his own back.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Stallone plays a New York Mafia capo who, having served a 25-year prison sentence, gets sent to Oklahoma by his boss to set up a criminal syndicate.
    Sridhar Pappu, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The federal indictment described him as a capo, or captain, in the Colombo crime family.
    New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Stallone plays Dwight Manfredi, a former mafia capo released after spending 25 years in prison.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Nov. 2022
  • One of the most quotable characters from the series, Tony Sirico’s fastidious and impeccably coiffured capo is also one of the most tempting to impersonate.
    Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2021
  • One suggests that there are areas of this country so innocent and untouched by evildoers that an aging mob capo could come in and transform the place, virtually overnight, into Vito Corleone’s Little Italy circa 1920.
    Wsj Arts, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • An onboard preset system allows users to save and switch between custom configurations for everything from alternate tunings to playing with a capo, each made distinct by selectable LED colors.
    Julian Vittorio, Popular Science, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Another Riccardo, Riccardo Chailly, is currently the Scala capo.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 May 2021
  • Stallone’s character, antiquated mafia capo Dwight Manfredi, is tasked with establishing a criminal organization in Tulsa, Okla. after serving a 25-year prison sentence.
    Antonio Ferme, Variety, 10 Nov. 2022
  • This model is beloved on Amazon and includes online lessons, a case, strap, capo, and strings.
    Editors Of Men's Health, Men's Health, 4 May 2022
  • East clamped a capo on his guitar, hoping that changing the key might make the chords ring a little differently.
    Tom Roland, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Ana’s help to set up a sit-down between Vicious and an ambitious fellow capo named Mao Yenrai.
    Scott Meslow, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2021
  • Reid Fisher of San Martin, Calif., usually travels with a capo.
    Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2021
  • But not before laying out cold a disrespectful young capo and thereby painting a target on his own back.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Stallone plays a New York Mafia capo who, having served a 25-year prison sentence, gets sent to Oklahoma by his boss to set up a criminal syndicate.
    Sridhar Pappu, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The federal indictment described him as a capo, or captain, in the Colombo crime family.
    New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Stallone plays Dwight Manfredi, a former mafia capo released after spending 25 years in prison.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Nov. 2022
  • One of the most quotable characters from the series, Tony Sirico’s fastidious and impeccably coiffured capo is also one of the most tempting to impersonate.
    Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2021
  • One suggests that there are areas of this country so innocent and untouched by evildoers that an aging mob capo could come in and transform the place, virtually overnight, into Vito Corleone’s Little Italy circa 1920.
    Wsj Arts, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • An onboard preset system allows users to save and switch between custom configurations for everything from alternate tunings to playing with a capo, each made distinct by selectable LED colors.
    Julian Vittorio, Popular Science, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Another Riccardo, Riccardo Chailly, is currently the Scala capo.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 May 2021
  • Stallone’s character, antiquated mafia capo Dwight Manfredi, is tasked with establishing a criminal organization in Tulsa, Okla. after serving a 25-year prison sentence.
    Antonio Ferme, Variety, 10 Nov. 2022

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