How to Use capitol in a Sentence

capitol

noun
  • The only state capitol to light up will be in Nashville, from dusk to dawn Jan. 22-24.
    Bethany Blankley, Washington Examiner, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Three weeks later, the Red Raiders will take a trip to the state capitol to face off against Texas on September 25.
    Dallas News, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Allen considered a stadium one of four great challenges for an architect, the others being a cathedral, a capitol building and a museum.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Tennessee lawmakers proposed building a statue of Dolly Parton at the state capitol, but the music legend asked them to table the idea.
    Fortune, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Remember that proposal to have a statue of Dolly Parton erected at the Tennessee capitol?
    Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 19 Feb. 2021
  • The trimaran-style ship is 418 feet long and bears the name of Maine’s capitol.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
  • He's shown being sworn in on the steps of the capitol building.
    Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Wallace agreed to meet at the state capitol on the morning of April 25.
    Patricia Sullivan, Time, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Some of the protesters outside the capitol burned the U.S. flag.
    Barak Ravid, Axios, 24 July 2024
  • One new listing in the nation’s capitol may be for you.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The 2011 maps had been drawn in secret, in a locked wing of a law firm across the street from the Wisconsin state capitol.
    Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Willow Beach's pricey sale was soon linked to the influx of tech workers to the Texas capitol.
    Mark Dunphy, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The capitol building isn’t far, but the way is treacherous.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The statue was brought to the state capitol by the Satanic Temple of Iowa.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 24 May 2024
  • Katima Smith-Willis, 26, stands on the steps of the Kentucky capitol.
    Chiara Brown, Vogue, 22 Aug. 2022
  • At the announcement, in the state capitol in St. Paul, Mondale beamed with pride.
    David Shribman, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2021
  • There's a lot of bad teams at the top of this draft not in position to give away future draft capitol.
    The Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The new capitol, which remains a Frankfort landmark to this day, opened in 1831.
    Keith L. Runyon, The Courier-Journal, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Has first rally with Biden in Springfield, Illinois, in front of the old state capitol.
    CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
  • It’s 1901 at the Alabama capitol, one of those spring days in May when the weather can’t decide what to be.
    al, 5 Dec. 2022
  • There is palpable excitement in the halls of the state capitol.
    Corey Deangelis, National Review, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Auriemma is due to speak at the capitol on this issue this week.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Chernobyl is located less than 100 miles north of Kyiv, which is the capitol of Ukraine.
    Katie Vogel, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The county is about 50 miles southwest of Charleston, the state capitol, and rests along the Virginia border.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 3 June 2023
  • Upon seizing the capitol, the Taliban were quick to shutter schools for girls.
    Karina Tsui, Washington Post, 27 July 2022
  • Yet right across the street, in the shadow of the state capitol, sit some of the state’s most disenfranchised citizens.
    Maya Homan, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The town is about 50 miles southeast of Bogota, the county's capitol.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
  • She was interviewed in her office in the state capitol.
    Terry Scott Bertling, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Demonstrators had flooded the state capitol in the wake of a March 2023 school shooting in Nashville.
    Fin Gómez, CBS News, 2 June 2023
  • Earlier this month, the sound of mooing rang out in the chambers of the Louisiana capitol when the House unanimously voted in favor of a bill legalizing the sale of raw milk in the state.
    Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2024

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