make capital of
Example Sentences
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Almost to a paper they refused to make capital of the most sensational of criminal cases.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because publishers have tried to make capital of books that he is reported to enjoy, President Roosevelt refuses to discuss what he reads, let alone what he likes to read.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus radio Berlin tried to make capital of the news that the Coughlinite weekly Social Justice had been barred from the U.S. mails.
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Last week as Count Csaky kept silent, opposition parties tried to make capital of Hungary's alarm, to smoke Count Csaky out.
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You young dog, you know that in the most prosaic breast a minor poet survives his entombment,—and you endeavor to make capital of the knowledge.
From The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages by Cabell, James Branch
