Sentence for capable | Use capable in a sentence

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  • But it is capable of much more. (4)
  • I am not capable of imagining it. (10)
  • It was all he was capable of doing. (8)
  • He was capable of receiving correction. (10)
  • No one else would have been capable of it. (5)
  • At any rate, she was capable of friendship. (10)
  • Mr. Lemmy, even the Press is capable of gratitude. (8)
  • You do well, Janey; he is capable of any villany. (10)
  • He is capable of as much evil as good to his cause. (18)
  • He must I am certain be capable of every bad action! (4)
  • He had never met a woman so capable of inspiring affection. (8)
  • I felt capable of asking them bluntly what they meant by it. (9)
  • They were right; he was as capable of villany as of nobility. (10)
  • But you never know what any one is capable of till he does it. (12)
  • I treat my daughter as a woman capable of judging for herself. (10)
  • Mrs. March showed herself more capable of coping with the fact. (9)
  • You never believed in me; you never thought me capable of good! (8)
  • He naturally supposed she was capable of conducting her affairs. (10)
  • And he believed her quite capable of entertaining the proposition! (8)
  • For the first time I begin to think myself capable of growing old. (14)
  • An arrow drawn to the head, capable of flying fast and far with her! (10)
  • Flooring should be capable of resisting wear and should not splinter. (17)
  • Think whether she is capable of sacrifice before you compel her to it. (10)
  • He could hardly believe such delicate limbs and joints capable of motion. (12)
  • These sentimental actresses who refuse to grow old are capable of anything. (12)
  • Her heart was sore and angry, and she was capable only of angry consolations. (4)
  • No, I believe you capable of everything great and good in your married lives. (4)
  • I thanked her and wished her good-night while I was still capable of smiling. (10)
  • What she had just done was capable of many additional feats; she had tried it. (5)
  • Yet he was not capable of self-control; something within was stronger than he. (12)
  • But he must be known; a man who was capable of that deed could not be overlooked. (12)
  • Knowing this, a system is installed which is capable of supplying this heat loss. (17)
  • Our fellows looked capable of any kindness to their wards short of letting them go. (9)
  • The enthralment revolted a nature capable of accepting subjection only by burning. (10)
  • Mrs. Brinkley looked at him for an instant as if she really thought him capable of it. (9)
  • I would like somebody who is capable of valuing her to value her in all her preciousness. (9)
  • Every soreness and weakness of his spirit seemed to call out for her strong, capable hand. (13)
  • Adrian looked in her face, as much as to say: Now are you capable of this piece of heroism? (10)
  • After such speaking Ammiani was not capable of the attempt to preach peace and safety to her. (10)
  • No man of common humanity, no man who had any value for his character, could be capable of it. (4)
  • I could not preach but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition. (4)
  • There are no words capable of conveying the faintest idea of the feelings that agitated Mrs. Fitz. (6)
  • The place deserves it, and you will find yourself not satisfied with much less than it is capable of. (4)
  • His face, of the Norman type, with regular, handsome features, had a leisurely and capable expression. (8)
  • It was capable of being opened in two halves; the upper half could be swung in without the lower half. (17)
  • The result was a musical technic capable of development, and refined beyond need of further reformation. (3)
  • Young Farney, though a secretary, was capable of attachment; and his eyes expressed a pitying affection. (8)
  • It was a face capable of strong emotion, and, with training, it offered the promise of delicate sentiment. (2)
  • Poor Caroline obeyed; but she was capable of reflecting only that her face was unnaturally lean and strange to her. (10)
  • Their forts and factories, though capable of offering a strong defence, were built of logs, with bastions of stone. (19)
  • Besides, he gave himself up to unbridled indulgence in brandy, and, when drunk, he was capable of the most brutal acts. (5)
  • They must not do less than others, or she should be exposed to odious suspicions, and imagined capable of pitiful resentment. (4)
  • He had always shown himself capable and loyal to the interests of the magazine, and both the new owners were glad to keep him. (9)
  • What delight will be yours in seeing him again; in seeing him still worthy your esteem, still capable of forming your happiness! (4)
  • But, in truth, the better informed of the town, having begun to think its Croesus capable of any eccentricity, chose to believe. (10)
  • He had seen too much of more vivid colours to be capable now of venerating greatly the dull and dubious tints of blue and yellow. (8)
  • She loved him when she thought him guilty, which made her conceive that her love was of a diviner cast than Rose was capable of. (10)
  • He lighted his pipe, and from the depths of his easychair, invited my shy youth to all the ease it was capable of in his presence. (9)
  • She was persuaded to believe the engagement a wrong thing: indiscreet, improper, hardly capable of success, and not deserving it. (4)
  • The varieties of dormer-windows that he can put on the roof are limited to a few that are capable of being reasonably constructed. (17)
  • Could one believe in a Providence capable of letting such a sapling and weakling strike down the most magnificent stature upon earth? (10)
  • Yesterday, for the first time, he had seriously threatened to drive the ropedancer away, and she knew that Cyriax was capable of anything. (5)
  • Dupuy planned such a feast, and arranged to stuff them so plentifully that not a single brave would be capable of rising from the banquet. (19)
  • In New York there are no elderly hackmen; but in Boston they abound, and I cannot believe they would be capable of bad faith with travellers. (9)
  • Yet he was a gentleman capable of apprehending simultaneously that he sinned against his pride in the means he adopted to comfort his nature. (10)
  • A year ago she was still capable of refusing passionately any participation in such a plan; to-day she has probably simply forgotten Christian. (12)
  • I could rather believe every creature of my acquaintance leagued together to ruin me in his opinion, than believe his nature capable of such cruelty. (4)
  • He had calculated that his helpmate must be capable of maintaining, by means of her accomplishments, grace of person, and intellect, his exalted social eminence. (18)

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Definition of capable:

  • capable, kp’a-bl, adj. having ability, power, or skill to do: qualified, competent. | ns. capabil’ity, cap’ableness. (0)

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