How to Use capture in a Sentence

capture

1 of 2 noun

• The group’s rapid capture of large swaths of Iraq and Syria in 2014 shocked the world.
  — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2024
• The Nuggets had a 30-point lead at halftime and went on the capture the series 4-2.
  — oregonlive, 1 June 2023
• Borges didn’t hear more about the bear until news of her capture last week.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2023
• A lot of that is voice performance, a lot of that is voice capture.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 11 May 2023
• The harshest abuse came in moments of capture, rather than in the basement.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023
• Little Richard, who died in 2020, is no easy subject to capture.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Gillespie was able to evade capture and is still considered to be at large.
  — Laura A. Bischoff, The Courier-Journal, 26 May 2023
• Some in the community are growing restless over the lack of a capture.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 8 Sep. 2023
• The attack on Israel resulted in about 1,400 deaths and the capture of hundreds of people.
  — Samuel Schaffer, Washington Examiner, 19 Nov. 2023
• The whale-capture industry argued that there were many orcas in the sea, and that some could be sustainably caught.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
• The whale-capture industry argued that there were many orcas in the sea and some could be sustainably caught.
  — Freida Frisaro, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023
• If all goes well, the spacecraft will catch up with the space station Saturday morning and stand by for capture by the lab's robot arm.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2023
• Small gains, such as the recent capture of Avdiivka, have come at enormous cost.
  — Matthew Chance, CNN, 24 Feb. 2024
• The long-running feud appeared to reach new heights this week as Prigozhin announced the capture of a Russian commander.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
• It was described as a champagne-colored or gold Acura TL, with a screen capture showing it as a four-door.
  — Michelle Acevedo, NBC News, 3 July 2023
• Eventually, Stanton recruits a team of men to help assist him in the capture of Booth.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 5 Feb. 2024
• Also, if a notification pops up in the capture area or makes a sound, it will be recorded.
  — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 3 Sep. 2023
• Much of the cost of deploying carbon capture is the investment in the equipment to draw down the carbon dioxide, Deich said.
  — Drew Costley, Fortune, 17 May 2023
• The rest are trying to evade capture, either by climbing over the wall and making a break for it into the city, or trekking deep into the surrounding desert.
  — Keegan Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• The brutality of the captures began to draw public outcry and a lawsuit to stop them in Washington state.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
• And the second issue today is the capture of the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
• Trimble tried to avoid capture again by breaking the door free of the shop owner’s grip and trying to slip out before the shutter had fully descended.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 17 June 2023
• The capture would apply to five of the development's six projects that have $773 million in development costs.
  — Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2024
• That’s why some experts say that new technologies such as direct air capture could be helpful.
  — Coral Davenport, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
• Israel is highly sensitive to the capture of its soldiers and civilians.
  — Daniel Byman and Seth G. Jones, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2023
• Fighting on the edge of France’s Argonne Forest, Johnson saved a fellow soldier from capture using grenades and his rifle as a club.
  — Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• And what can that medium capture that isn’t possible with online media or a podcast?
  — Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 30 May 2023
• Bivens added that Burham didn’t have any weapons on him at the time of his capture, though a search is being conducted in the area he was found in an attempt to recover any possible items.
  — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 16 July 2023
• At nearly 100 years old, Ocean Sun is the only southern resident who was alive at the time of the captures — the only one who would remember Tokitae.
  — Caitlin Gibson, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
• Somali pirates’ capture of the MV Ruen in December last year marked the first successful hijacking of a vessel off the country’s coast since 2017.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 19 Mar. 2024

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capture

2 of 2 verb

• The show has captured the attention of teenagers.
• The city was captured by the Romans.
• The company plans on capturing a larger segment of the market.
• They were captured by enemy soldiers.
• She captured 60 percent of the vote in the last election.
• She was captured in Costa Rica and brought back to the U.S. to face charges.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2023
• These photos capture the first hours of Zdarsky’s life as a free man.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
• From high above, a breathtaking drone shot captures the whale, the waves, and the human scrum.
  — Nathan Burstein, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
• Jayla was the third Ben Davis student in a row to capture the honor.
  — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Feb. 2024
• The video appeared to capture a skirmish in the crowd and people could be seen standing on cars.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2023
• Other wonders can be captured on a piece of paper, say the size of a lineup card.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
• And, it was all captured on video — well, several videos.
  — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
• Turn on the recoil activation for the video and camera and capture unique stills and footage from your hunts.
  — Amanda Oliver, Field & Stream, 21 Mar. 2024
• This lens captures footage of the driver and passengers while in motion.
  — Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 12 July 2023
• This timelapse video shows the night sky giving way to the rosy-fingered dawn, as captured by this all-sky camera.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 June 2023
• To capture Booth, theatergoers would’ve had to run out the front door, turn right, run around the corner and block the escape from the alley.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
• All volunteers need to do is angle their phones up to capture the big event and let SunSketcher record the rest.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 21 Mar. 2024
• Coren was there to capture the joy when the schools reopened to girls for the first time in months — and the devastation when they were shut down hours later.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 4 Nov. 2023
• For decades, the focus has been getting rid of water, not capturing it.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• The gist is the disc captures acoustic noise from your chest or back and then converts it into an electric signal that can be read by the BeamO.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 8 Jan. 2024
• Just capture packets or send packets in the network, where all these servers are running.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2024
• The first photo captured Khoury’s face shortly after the attack, with her nose wrapped in gauze and her eyes swollen nearly shut.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
• But Ukrainians resisted, and in mid-March 2022, Russian troops failed to capture the capital and much of the rest of the country.
  — Polina Lytvynova, NPR, 25 Feb. 2024
• The lyrics capture the two singers fully embracing themselves behind the scenes once the cameras turn off.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2023
• Those fights resulted in tens of thousands of ISIS fighters killed or captured.
  — Javed Ali, The Conversation, 24 Oct. 2023
• About five hours later, Ms. Chooljian’s doorbell camera captured video of the man in the blue raincoat smashing her window.
  — David Enrich, New York Times, 6 June 2023
• This marks the first time in league history that three teams have the same record through 81 games with a chance to capture the No. 1 seed in their respective conference.
  — Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 13 Apr. 2024
• In another photo shared, Prinsloo was captured laughing as one of her two daughters clung to her waist.
  — Jenny Haward, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2023
• But by the time an hour had gone by, Barlow had captured this photograph of a dunlin taking flight with little time to spare before the wave hit the shore.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2023
• The purifier is equipped with a high-efficiency filtration system that’s designed to capture pollen, pet dander, dust, and more in rooms up to 215 square feet in size.
  — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024