How to Use capable in a Sentence

capable

adjective
  • This team is more than capable.
    — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Willard knows what the program is capable of at full strength.
    — Ryan McFadden, Baltimore Sun, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Jonathan Toews looks smart, capable and tired.
    — Murat Ates, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Aged 24 and looks capable of big things.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Poles found him someone who might be capable of doing just that.
    — Sean Hammond, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Her team is capable, but they have been quietly trained to wait for her.
    — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Women are capable of a lot, good and bad and all the shades in between.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The final winners of the night proved that the show is still capable of a plot twist.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Snell is capable of shutting down any lineup at any time.
    — Andy McCullough, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Just young people who, with a bit of support, can be capable of a great deal.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2024
  • That makes storms capable of dumping enormous amounts of rain over land.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2024
  • When one player moves along, the next tandem up seems ready and capable.
    — Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2026
  • That isn’t to say that the defense stack hasn’t grown more capable itself.
    — Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
  • Phillips is more than capable of being used in both strategies.
    — Mike Kaye march 12, Charlotte Observer, 12 Mar. 2026
  • If school doesn't stand in their way, kids can be remarkably capable.
    — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
  • These storms will be capable of 35 mph outflows, heavy rain, and small hail.
    — Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Is the city of San Diego capable of anything like this?
    — Kate Callen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
  • There are some pretty capable camper vans out there, but this 4×4 will leave them in the dust.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The cost of a capable robotic arm or even some humanoids has lowered.
    — Rishabh Chanana, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Yarbrough is capable of filling that slot if the Yankees go that way.
    — Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Pratt and Howard are charming and more than capable as an action duo.
    — cleveland, 8 June 2022
  • Chae-ni’s body is now capable of producing a serum that may be able to grant eternal life.
    — Kayti Burt, Time, 15 May 2026
  • Small drones have also proven capable of striking far behind the front line.
    — David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • None of those three impresses me as more capable than the Padres.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Except, of course, that’s a lie — a keypad is capable of nothing on its own.
    — Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The question now isn’t whether models are capable.
    — Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Its engineers are among the most capable users of it anywhere.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • As models are trained to be more capable, this problem may increase.
    — Tharin Pillay, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
  • And, as the Russians note, the drones are fast getting more capable.
    — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Even if his hair were jet-black, the last couple of weeks would be capable of turning anyone’s hair gray.
    — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2026

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