How to Use capo in a Sentence

capo

noun
  • The capo wants to know why his thugs are lying dead in the hallway.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2023
  • This model is beloved on Amazon and includes online lessons, a case, strap, capo, and strings.
    — Editors Of Men's Health, Men's Health, 4 May 2022
  • Neither is his 65-year-old capo in the Stoughton heist crew, Calvin Butner.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 4 Jan. 2026
  • East clamped a capo on his guitar, hoping that changing the key might make the chords ring a little differently.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Users can also change the reference pitch in 1-Hz increments, and opt to tune with a capo on.
    — New Atlas, 9 Jan. 2026
  • But not before laying out cold a disrespectful young capo and thereby painting a target on his own back.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Though many of these prisoners were low-level offenders who’d been held for years without being charged, a few were capos in the gangs.
    — Amy Wilentz, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Most people ask for a capo in b, which a server told me is like a cappuccino, but with less milk, and served in a bicchiere, or glass, rather than a cup.
    — Taras Grescoe, Travel + Leisure, 23 Nov. 2024
  • The routine is led by another Oljeberget capo, who stands in front of the supporters.
    — Elias Burke, New York Times, 23 June 2026
  • Ana’s help to set up a sit-down between Vicious and an ambitious fellow capo named Mao Yenrai.
    — Scott Meslow, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2021
  • The federal indictment described him as a capo, or captain, in the Colombo crime family.
    — New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Stallone plays Dwight Manfredi, a former mafia capo released after spending 25 years in prison.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Nov. 2022
  • His death is the most significant takedown of a Mexican drug capo since the capture of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2026
  • But to those trying to keep him locked up, Martinez is the ultra-violent capo of a notorious prison gang who has extorted drug dealers and ordered hits on people who crossed him.
    — Tony Saavedra, Orange County Register, 19 May 2024
  • The show follows mafia capo, Dwight, 25 years after he’s released from prison, building a new crew after realizing his mob family doesn’t have his best interests.
    — Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
  • But many in Mexico and elsewhere feared the capo’s death could spark a deadly round of violence in the country, as lower-level cartel operatives fight for supremacy amid a leadership void.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Stallone plays a New York Mafia capo who, having served a 25-year prison sentence, gets sent to Oklahoma by his boss to set up a criminal syndicate.
    — Sridhar Pappu, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
  • One of the most quotable characters from the series, Tony Sirico’s fastidious and impeccably coiffured capo is also one of the most tempting to impersonate.
    — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2021
  • In the nineties, a boy named Giuseppe Di Matteo was held by a Mafia capo there and tortured for nearly two years, because the boy’s father—a mobster turned informant—was set to testify against his fellow gang members.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Another Riccardo, Riccardo Chailly, is currently the Scala capo.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 May 2021
  • Trump seems to imagine a hierarchical system dominated by a single capo whose removal collapses the organization—a model rooted in the 1980s.
    — Javier Corrales, Time, 5 Jan. 2026
  • An onboard preset system allows users to save and switch between custom configurations for everything from alternate tunings to playing with a capo, each made distinct by selectable LED colors.
    — Julian Vittorio, Popular Science, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Listen to this article A deteriorating Colombo crime family capo who terrorized and extorted a labor union leader for decades was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for racketeering.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The governor was embroiled in a scandal in 2023 involving the Sinaloa cartel, in which his name was published in a letter written by a then-Sinaloa cartel capo whose leaders of a rival faction the cartel had kidnapped.
    — CBS News, 2 May 2026
  • According to Philly Voice, tensions came to a head in 1993, when Stanfa's men shot and injured Merlino and killed his reputed capo, Michael Ciancaglini.
    — Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Things reportedly came to a head in 1993, when Stanfa's men shot and injured Merlino and killed his reputed capo Michael Ciancaglini, according to the Philly Voice.
    — Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • One suggests that there are areas of this country so innocent and untouched by evildoers that an aging mob capo could come in and transform the place, virtually overnight, into Vito Corleone’s Little Italy circa 1920.
    — Wsj Arts, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Albert Collins Known as The Master Of The Telecaster, Albert Collins was both blues legend and wild-eyed showman, picking out licks on his 1966 Custom Tele, usually in an open tuning, with a capo on the neck.
    — New Atlas, 30 May 2026

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