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How to use cap in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Cap means a close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked. Example: “The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.”

Examples of cap by meaning

nounA close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.

  • The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.

nounA protective cover or seal.

  • He took the cap off the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne.

nounA crown for covering a tooth.

  • He had golden caps on his teeth.

nounThe summit of a mountain, etc.

  • There was snow on the cap of the mountain.

nounAn artificial upper limit or ceiling.

  • We should put a cap on the salaries, to keep them under control.

nounA small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun.

  • Billy spent all morning firing caps with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy.

nounA small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives.

  • He wired the cap to the bundle of dynamite, then detonated it remotely.

nounA bullet used to shoot someone.

  • Did he think they were going to put a cap in his ass right in the middle of Metreon?2001, Charles Jade, Jade goes to Metreon

More sentences with cap

  • This milkshake under the oil cap, or on the dipstick, indicates a blown head gasket.From the entry milkshake
  • He thinks it is quite a feather in his cap that he figured it out for himself.From the entry feather in one's cap
  • He coned the top of the pottery to make it look like a dunce cap.From the entry coned
  • School uniforms for boys may include a school tie, jacket, cap and a pair of formal trousers.From the entry school uniform
  • The southern polar cap of Mars consists of both carbon dioxide and water ice.From the entry polar cap
  • This project looks like it will be a real challenge – put on your thinking cap!From the entry thinking cap
  • The foreign body stuck inside the dog's stomach turned out to be a bottle cap.From the entry foreign body
  • My WoW main has reached level cap and I’m on my way getting my first alt there as well.From the entry main
  • Don't wear your baseball cap backward; turn it forward.From the entry forward
  • The ocean beneath the arctic ice cap hosts many unique organisms adapted to the cold and shortage of light.From the entry ice cap
  • The ice cap of Kilimanjaro is shrinking, and some researchers believe it will disappear within the next one hundred years.From the entry ice cap
  • The tool and die department stocks various hardware assortments, such as cap screws in most thread sizes and assorted lengths.From the entry assortment
  • A few gray wisps straggled from underneath his cap.From the entry straggle
  • The program is bumping up on its fiscal cap.From the entry bump up
  • We went for a walk along the beach, watched the sunset, and then capped it all off with a lovely meal.From the entry cap it all off
  • What a day. I lost my wallet, my mobile phone broke, then to cap it all I got a flat tyre.From the entry cap it all off
  • The cap of the mushroom has squamules.From the entry squamule
  • My first time toking up was out of a plastic water bottle with bud lodged in the cap.From the entry toke up
  • Do not cap up "oblast" or "province" in place names.From the entry cap up
  • I just found $20 on the ground, no cap.From the entry no cap
  • He had his cap on backward.From the entry backward
  • The wizard wore a peaked cap.From the entry peaked
  • No longer were we required to go cap in hand to the banks if we wanted money: they were coming to us.From the entry cap in hand
  • Four-year-old Anna surprised her parents when she unscrewed the screw cap and poured herself a glass of milk, like an old pro.From the entry screw cap
  • On a value-for-money basis, Scotland currently has more feathers in its cap.2025 July 9, Mel Holley, “How much should a station cost?”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 27. From the entry feather in one's cap
  • S.E.C. rules cap E.T.F.s from offering more than two times leverage.2025 December 5, “Why the Battle for Warner Bros. Discovery May Not Be Over Yet”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry leverage
  • A baby gurgled, a photographer dropped her lens cap, and the strains of the U.S.2024, Christa Case Bryant, As US marks 9/11, a divided Congress unites to honor 13 fallen in Afghanistan, in: The Christian Science…. From the entry strain
  • The weapon is able to convert distance fallen into bonus damage without any sort of cap.2024 August 15, Jacob Burkett, “Has the mace powercrept other weapons in Minecraft?”, in Sportskeeda, Mumbai, Maharashtra: Nazara…. From the entry powercreep
  • The five MAMAA stocks have a combined market cap of more than $6.6 trillion.2023 March 1, Wayne Duggan, “What Happened To FAANG Stocks? They Became MAMAA Stocks”, in Benjamin Curry, editor, Forbes, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry MAMAA
  • Studies have shown that wine cap mushrooms, for example, can boost corn's ability to produce delicious ears.2023, Liv Sisson, Fungi of Aotearoa: A Curious Forager's Field Guide, Penguin Random House New Zealand, →ISBN. From the entry companion planting
  • We couldn't find enough dammits (a cap that goes over the pin to hold it on).2022 July 18, Perry Muse, Morbid Thoughts and the Domino Effect: Passing Thoughts During Cancer, Gatekeeper Press, →ISBN, page 21. From the entry dammit
  • I hooked off a policeman's coat and cap, and put them on.2022, John Galsworthy, Villa Rubein, and Other Stories. From the entry hook off

Meaning of cap

  1. noun A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
  2. noun A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
  3. noun An academic mortarboard.

Full definition of cap

Questions about cap in a sentence

How do you use cap in a sentence?
Cap is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.”
What is a short sentence with cap?
“He had his cap on backward.”
What does cap mean?
Cap means a close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cap (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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