CAPE in a Sentence

Learn CAPE 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.

32 example sentences for CAPE, such as:

1. A bicycle cape will protect you in wet weather.
2. She caught up Melanie's hooded cape which was hanging on a hook in the hall.
3. Arobin found her cape and hat, which he brought down and helped her to put on.
4. She wore a cape of white feathers that she slowly removed to reveal her nakedness.
5. Out on the cape is a fine lighthouse which we had admired as we came up the coast on the ship.

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 Meanings and Examples of CAPE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cape
 n.  piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake; sleeveless outer garment
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  Why, you liar, I saw you with my own eyes sidle round the corner of the porch and squat in the cape jessamine bush by the wall.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  The elders of the flocks continually led stealthy advances into the front yard, lured on by the green of the grass and the luscious promise of the cape jessamine buds and the zinnia beds.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  One long column, half-burned, had fallen across the lawn, crushing the cape jessamine bushes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
4  The door opened, a cold draft swept the room and Rhett appeared, hatless, a long cape thrown carelessly across his shoulders.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
5  He was resplendent in new clothes and a greatcoat with a dashing cape thrown back from his heavy shoulders.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  Rhett Butler stood in the doorway, his black slouch hat low over his eyes, the wild wind whipping his cape about him in snapping folds.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
7  In the doorway appeared Ashley, white faced, his head lolling, his bright hair tousled, his long body wrapped from neck to knees in Rhett's black cape.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
8  She caught up Melanie's hooded cape which was hanging on a hook in the hall.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
9  India shot one more quick anguished look at Ashley, and, wrapping her cape about her, ran lightly down the hall to the back door and let herself out quietly into the night.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
10  The back door swung open and India entered, followed by old Dr. Dean, his long white hair tumbled, his worn leather bag bulging under his cape.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
11  She stood for a moment remembering small things, the avenue of dark cedars leading to Tara, the banks of cape jessamine bushes, vivid green against the white walls, the fluttering white curtains.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
12  After bundling her mother up in clothes the neighbours had brought, Antonia put on an old cape from our house and the rabbit-skin hat her father had made for her.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVI
13  Arobin found her cape and hat, which he brought down and helped her to put on.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXI
14  A sky-blue coat, with short and broad skirts and low cape, exposed a long, thin neck, and longer and thinner legs, to the worst animadversions of the evil-disposed.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
15  St. Clare saw her as in a dream, while she placed in the small hands a fair cape jessamine, and, with admirable taste, disposed other flowers around the couch.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
Example Sentence:
1  A bicycle cape will protect you in wet weather.
2  She wore a cape of white feathers that she slowly removed to reveal her nakedness.
3  Out on the cape is a fine lighthouse which we had admired as we came up the coast on the ship.