Sentences with cap
cap
C c - They had capped the roof with plywood. [VERB noun with noun]
- The unrest capped a weekend of right-wing attacks on foreigners. [VERB noun]
- The government wants to cap councils that spend too much.
- The law would cap legal immigration.
- He suddenly smiled, revealing teeth that had recently been capped. [be VERB-ed]
- A nurse's cap
- If the teams don't cap player salaries, the league won't survive.
- The report caps a ten-year study of lung cancer among nonsmokers.
- Lens cap
- The cap of a wave
- He has won three England caps
- Snow capped the mountain tops
- Your story caps them all
- He was capped 30 times by Scotland
- Rate-capping
- A cardinal's cap, fool's cap
- To cap a nurse
- Snow capped the hills
- To cap a quotation
- The caps of medicine bottles must be kept firmly closed.Unscrew the cap of the bottle and pour all the contents into a beaker.A cap is a protective cover or seal, especially one that closes off an end or a tip.
- On March 24, 1980, the company capped the well by inserting cement plugs.For some months the gas was allowed to flow freely and then the well was capped with cement.To cap a well is to seal it off.
- ...a dark-blue baseball cap.
- ...a frontier guard in olive-grey uniform and a peaked cap.
- Rees, 32, has been capped for England 23 times. [be VERB-ed]
- Mark Davis will win his first cap for Wales in Sunday's Test match against Australia. [+ for]
- The only new cap is Llanelli's 20-year-old left-wing Wayne Proctor.
- The Secretary of State for Environment has the power to cap councils which spend excessively. [VERB noun]
- She unscrewed the cap of her water bottle and gave him a drink. [+ of]
- If he don't get outta my hood, I'm gonna cap his ass.
- Peter Shilton is the most capped English footballer.
- He went to his father cap in hand and begged his forgiveness.
- The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.
- He took the cap of the bottle and splashed himself with some cologne.
- He had golden caps on his teeth.
- There was snow on the cap of the mountain.
- We should put a cap on the salaries, to keep them under control.
- Billy spent all morning firing caps with his friends, re-enacting storming the beach at Normandy.
- He wired the cap to the bundle of dynamite, then detonated it remotely.
- Rio Ferdinand won his 50th cap for England in a game against Sweden.
- The cap of column, door, etc. ; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate
- Flat cap; foolscap; legal cap
- Parasitic caps.
- cap wages.
- That really capped my day.