How to Use capstone in a Sentence

capstone

noun

• Some researchers believe that the pyramids’ capstones were plated in gold as well.
  — Rebecca James, Architectural Digest, 3 Apr. 2017
• Belichick is the truly bizarre capstone to this sordid affair.
  — Luke O'Neil, Esquire, 8 Nov. 2016
• A capstone of the festival is a nature walk into the ravine at Bowen Park.
  — Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 8 May 2017
• Each honors student works with a faculty mentor to complete a capstone project from their major field of study.
  — Michelle Mullins, Naperville Sun, 11 May 2017
• There’s more going to create this geology than just the protective nature of the capstones.
  — Bruce Whiting, idahostatesman, 17 Apr. 2017
• The Met being the Met, however, this capstone moment usually takes on an epic scale.
  — Mark Guiducci, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2017
• The enormous, 65-ton capstone on top of its chamber is a broken fragment of a menhir, a standing stone, brought from 10 km away.
  — Mike Parker Pearson, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2015
• Heading the agency, the Pentagon’s intelligence arm, was supposed to be the capstone of a storied career.
  — Matthew Rosenberg, Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2016
• The 1968 convention was the ignition, if not a symbolic capstone, to a combustible decade of racial and antiwar strife.
  — Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2024
• The capstone course will involve Kids Helping Kids, which could potentially boost the number of student members.
  — Orange County Register, 21 Feb. 2017
• Those fragments, if large enough, protected the ash beneath them from rain and streams that eroded away the surrounding material, leaving spires and ribs of compacted ash and their capstones.
  — Bruce Whiting, idahostatesman, 17 Apr. 2017
• Capstone of the trip: the spectacular ruins of Angkor Wat, Cambodia—the largest religious monument in the world.
  — Veronica Stoddart, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2017
• For some, Proxima b is a fitting capstone to the astronomical revolution that began when the first exoplanets were found.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2016
• That was the capstone to a trend that had been in place.
  — Clare Foran, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2017
• The April 2 concert is the capstone of the group’s first five-city tour.
  — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2022
• The tantrum, of course, was the perfect capstone to the story.
  — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2017
• The April 2 concert is the capstone of a five-city tour.
  — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2022
• The film is going to be kind of a life and career capstone.
  — David Marchese, New York Times, 1 June 2024
• But why would Lee want a 360-page capstone to a movie career while still in the midst of it?
  — Jake Coyle, ajc, 2 Nov. 2021
• Ethics and morality are the capstones; the rest must flow from there.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2019
• The Launch Market is the capstone of the Maker Sessions.
  — Robin Goist, cleveland, 4 May 2021
• The capstone event was a longer ride to a neighboring town.
  — Cincinnati.com, 24 May 2017
• The $30 billion law, passed 25 years ago this month, was the capstone of their efforts.
  — Marie Gottschalk, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2019
• The stars are the students who will showcase their capstone projects.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2019
• The opera is the magnificent capstone of one of the all-time great jazz careers.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2022
• In 1938, as a capstone to the press coverage, Marston published a book.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 1 June 2017
• That victory would be the capstone to what figured to be a wondrous week in the sprints.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2021
• Person of the Year is for us a powerful capstone to the work of the previous 12 months.
  — Edward Felsenthal, Time, 13 Dec. 2021
• The capstone of the capsule is still on display at the burial site, which is not meant to be opened again until the year 6939.
  — Andrew Marquardt, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2021
• Djokovic made no secret of his desire for an Olympic gold, as a career capstone.
  — Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 4 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024