capacity

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The ravenous audience, almost entirely women, fluttered dollar bills all around, while easily filling the saloon’s 300-person capacity.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

In her 2019 memoir, “Where the Light Enters,” Jill contrasts Joe’s capacity for forgiveness with her proclivity toward grudges, how she recalls “every slight committed against the people I love.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

That puts OpenAI directly in competition with Tesla, which recently stopped selling its Model S and X luxury SUVs so it could convert that production capacity in Fremont, California, to a humanoid robot line.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

Few of the near-15,000 fans inside Chatrier - which was very close to capacity - seemed upset they had not received value for money.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

By October 1940, they began to sift through the concentrated bacterial detritus, painstakingly separating each chemical component, and testing each fraction for its capacity to transmit genetic information.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee