How to Use capitol in a Sentence

capitol

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Willis appears to be focused on those who planned and led the elector meeting in the state capitol in Atlanta.
    Amy Gardner, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The capitol building was built in 1859 — completed that year, rather.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 10 Jan. 2022
  • As soon as the ferry docked in Juneau on July 23, Barnes rode his bicycle straight to the capitol building.
    Fox News, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Members of the public are not allowed to carry firearms on the capitol complex.
    Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Members of the public are not allowed to carry firearms on the capitol complex.
    Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Mar. 2024
  • More than five inches of rain had fallen in the state capitol, breaking the previous record set in 1880.
    CBS News, 25 Oct. 2021
  • In Colorado, residents marched to the State capitol to protest rising rent costs.
    Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 20 July 2022
  • Country music legend Johnny Cash will receive a statue in his honor in the United States capitol.
    Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The state began demolition last year on a historic building connected to the capitol which houses the offices of the governor, state lawmakers, and their legions of staff.
    Nicole Nixon, Sacramento Bee, 25 June 2024

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