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How to use capitalization in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Capitalization means american and Oxford British English standard spelling of capitalisation. Example: “I doubt if one of them was interested in any business the total capitalization of which exceeded a couple of hundred thousand dollars.”

Examples of capitalization by meaning

nounAmerican and Oxford British English standard spelling of capitalisation.

  • I doubt if one of them was interested in any business the total capitalization of which exceeded a couple of hundred thousand dollars.1908 February 19, Jack London, The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC
  • And while Brazil's Telebras and South Africa's Anglo American Corp. again rank among the world's top emerging-market groups, their market capitalizations are also down from last year.1998 July 13, Kerry Capell et al., “Emerging Markets: The Winners in a Losing Year”, in Businessweek, retrieved 10 Jul 2015

More sentences with capitalization

  • (Danger Gnomes found random capitalization more fun and wondered why the other races avoided correspondence with them).2023, John Laible, “February Year 869: Phobia”, in The Gnome, the Dwarf, and the Danger Tree (The Saga of Brip and Torvir; 1), →ISBN. From the entry chelonaphobia
  • Capitalization of proper nouns is not a feature of the Tasmanian language palawa kani.2013 September 15, Maggie Walter, Chris Andersen, Indigenous Statistics: A Quantitative Research Methodology, Left Coast Press, →ISBN…. From the entry palawa kani
  • One nonappraisal method is the capitalization of current cash flows from operating properties.1993, Martin Alan Miller, Larry P. Bailey, Miller's Comprehensive GAAS Guide, pages 81–3. From the entry nonappraisal
  • The speller catches double words, capitalization errors, and simple punctuation errors, such as double periods.1990, InfoWorld, volume 12, page 111. From the entry near-antonym
  • For certain consonants normally represented with other diacritics (superposed “hatcheck,” subposed dot, bar) capitalization is used instead.1981, Dell H. Hymes, “In vain I tried to tell you”: Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics (2004), page 88, footnote 10. From the entry hatcheck
  • The punctuation of the letters and the capitalization which was a trademark remain as they appear in the copy texts.1973, Terence Tobin, Letters of George Ade, page 12. From the entry underpunctuate
  • ExxonMobil (XOM), once the world’s most valuable company, was recently surpassed in market capitalization by wind and solar company NextEra Energy (NEE).2020 October 19, Matt Egan, “The oil industry is in crisis. ConocoPhillips is doubling down”, in CNN Business. From the entry XOM
  • Now that we've worked through all of the specific clauses in the term sheet, let's go through how a typical capitalization table (cap table) works.2011, Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson, Venture Deals […] , John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 95. From the entry cap table

Meaning of capitalization

  1. noun American and Oxford British English standard spelling of capitalisation.

Full definition of capitalization

Questions about capitalization in a sentence

How do you use capitalization in a sentence?
Capitalization is used as a noun. For example: “I doubt if one of them was interested in any business the total capitalization of which exceeded a couple of hundred thousand dollars.”
What is a short sentence with capitalization?
“One nonappraisal method is the capitalization of current cash flows from operating properties.”
What does capitalization mean?
Capitalization means american and Oxford British English standard spelling of capitalisation.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: capitalization (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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