Sample Sentences for
capacious
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    Opening it, she proceeded to force the painting inside and despite the fact that it was patently too large to fit inside the tiny bag, within a few seconds it had vanished, like so much ease, into the bag's capacious depths.  (source)
    capacious = spacious (large in amount that can be held)
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    "Go join your sisters," the man with the capacious ears commanded.  (source)
    capacious = large
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    Judge Moore met Donaldson at the door and led him into his capacious office.  (source)
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    Clever modernizations of old Colonial manses, extensions in Victorian wood, capacious Greek Revival temples lined the street, as impressive and just as forbidding as ever.  (source)
    capacious = large
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    But that word "pastor" promised a patience and capaciousness of understanding that would be just the thing.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Glancing around the helicopter's capacious interior, I tried to fix the names of my teammates in my memory.  (source)
    capacious = spacious (large in amount that can be held)
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    The widewinged nostrils, from which bristles of the same tawny hue projected, were of such capaciousness that within their cavernous obscurity the fieldlark might easily have lodged her nest.†  (source)
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    adjusted his capacious waistcoat  (source)
    capacious = large
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    They loaded the dogs into Henry's car, a brown sedan with a capacious but slippery back seat.  (source)
    capacious = spacious (large)
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    It was just that I possessed small wit or patience for scientific abstractions, and this was something I think I deplored in myself as much as I envied the capacious and catholic range of Nathan's mind.  (source)
    capacious = large in capacity
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    Little houses, bigger ones, scrolled and capacious porches, dark windows, leaves of trees already rich with May, homes of rooms which chambered sleep as honey is cherished, drifted past their slow walking and were left behind, and not a light in any home.  (source)
    capacious = large
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    No tale was too gross or monstrous for his capacious swallow.  (source)
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    His capacious waistcoat was suggestive of a large heart underneath.†  (source)
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