CAPABILITY in a Sentence

Learn CAPABILITY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

172 example sentences for CAPABILITY, such as:

1. But it is capable of much more.
2. I don't think he's capable of murder.
3. I'm perfectly capable of doing it myself, thank you.
4. She has an aged parent who's capable of being very difficult.
5. It is hard to imagine Lineker capable of anything so extreme.

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 Meanings and Examples of CAPABILITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
capability
 n.  quality of being capable; capacity; skill
Classic Sentence: (135 in 10 pages)
1  Chloe had pertinaciously insisted that the very bills in which her wages had been paid should be preserved, to show her husband, in memorial of her capability.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
2  Stowe, then of Lane Seminary, Ohio, with regard to emancipated slaves, now resident in Cincinnati; given to show the capability of the race, even without any very particular assistance or encouragement.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
3  Dantes, struck with the beauty and capability of the little vessel, applied to its owner to transfer it to him, offering sixty thousand francs, upon condition that he should be allowed to take immediate possession.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25. The Unknown.
4  It was, indeed, high time that someone capable of giving advice and help should come to the aid of the sturdy old farmer and his adopted daughter.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
5  In past years Mr. Jones, although a hard master, had been a capable farmer, but of late he had fallen on evil days.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
6  I've never met the man yet who was capable of intimacy with a woman, giving himself up to her.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
7  Yet Daniele was still a man capable of a man's free allegiance.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
8  'Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe,' said Connie.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
9  Her heart was sore and angry, and she was capable only of angry consolations.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  The place deserves it, and you will find yourself not satisfied with much less than it is capable of.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
11  But it is capable of much more.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
12  But a parish has wants and claims which can be known only by a clergyman constantly resident, and which no proxy can be capable of satisfying to the same extent.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
13  You cannot suppose me capable of trying to persuade you to marry against your inclinations.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
14  I could not preach but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
15  That a girl so capable of being made everything good should be left in such hands, distressed her more and more.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
16  It is hard to imagine Lineker capable of anything so extreme.
17  There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
18  I'm perfectly capable of doing it myself, thank you.
19  She has an aged parent who's capable of being very difficult.
20  The larger firm was capable of providing a better range of services.
21  The research shows that pre-school children are capable of thinking in abstract terms.
22  Moreover, system technology is capable of reducing the time needed to respond to changes in demand or to serve orders.
23  They have the aircraft capable of doing significant damage, because most of those aircraft are capable of launching anti-ship missiles.
24  Love is the thing that we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.
25  I don't think he's capable of murder.
26  The majority of reptile species are egg-laying although certain species of squamates are capable of giving live birth.
27  Canadian politicians have been in capable of ending this primitive practice.
28  Religiously significant Tibetan incense is believed to be capable of driving away evil.
29  Seabra's mother said her son - whom she described as shy and religious - wasn't capable of such horror.
30  Swooping in for the hunt, the long-eared bat takes on the deadly deathstalker scorpion on foot;this scorpion's venom is so strong it is capable of killing a human.