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Example sentences for "capturing"

Lexicographically close words:
captors; captum; capture; captured; captures; captus; capull; caput; capybara; capybaras
  1. Led by General Cadogan in person they rode down the Bavarian Horse Grenadier Guards, and drove them through the French infantry in rear, capturing many standards.

  2. In 1838 it was with the army which forced its way through Scinde capturing Hyderabad and Kurrachee.

  3. His ship could not be brought to a close encounter, and he had no boats, yet he was bent upon capturing that galleon.

  4. And I promise you the Revenge will not be far behind when 'tis a question of fighting the Don and capturing his treasure-ships.

  5. Finally he succeeded in capturing the prince who had fled across the Euphrates into the mountains.

  6. Several days later he hunted among the steep gorges of Lebanon, killed buffaloes and boars, capturing a number of them alive, which he sent to Assyria.

  7. It’s too bad you have no weapon, but, nevertheless, you may be of great assistance in capturing the man.

  8. You’ve been mighty chummy with Sage, and I have a notion that he gave me away by telling you that I was trying to make a ten-strike by capturing a certain criminal for whom a large reward is offered.

  9. You’ll get your share of the reward for capturing Gentleman Jim, but I’ll take him back to York State.

  10. He next took Jidda and Mecca, defeating the Wahhabis beyond the latter place and capturing their general.

  11. And as chance would have it, he saw there a Kinnara, made of a splendid jewel, and he pursued him on his horse given by Indra, with the object of capturing him.

  12. On the last day of May, Clinton had succeeded in capturing the fortress at Stony Point, on the Hudson, had thrown a garrison of six hundred men into it, and added two lines of fortifications, rendering it almost impregnable.

  13. Miles, after a long pursuit, succeeded in capturing them.

  14. General James Wolfe, who commanded a brigade, and took the leading part in the assaults on the fortress, on one occasion plunging into the sea at the head of his grenadiers, and capturing a battery which commanded the beach.

  15. Steve, who had regarded the emperor's rejected furniture as a cross between a joke and an outrage, gave way to his feelings by pacing up and down the hall and capturing a tray of sandwiches being carried to the supper room.

  16. Capturing Live Seals and Whaling in the Tropics.

  17. Succeeded in capturing a number of peasantry that were going to the French garrison with wine, onions, bread, and eggs for sale.

  18. Ebed-Tob thus describes it in a letter to the secretary of the Pharaoh: "The Khabiri (or Confederates) are capturing the fortresses of the king.

  19. But now the Confederates (Khabiri) are capturing the fortresses of the king.

  20. We hear of him again as attacking and capturing a body of soldiers who had been sent to defend the royal palace at Joppa, and as occupying that city itself.

  21. Even the most apathetic of the seamen were aroused with the hopes of capturing their hated foe.

  22. Snatchblock showed fight, and two or three of his assailants bit the ground before they succeeded in capturing him.

  23. Had we been able to unite, instead of flying from arrest, we might have attacked Newcastle, and, if we had succeeded in capturing the place, we should have been masters of the county.

  24. While the search was at its height and hope of capturing the man had been about given up, a wireless call was picked up one night at a station on the Irish coast from the captain of a trans-Atlantic steamer in mid-ocean.

  25. If only Captain Thompson hastened his return with the wandering motor craft, they stood about an even chance of capturing Minory themselves.

  26. Somehow, he did not feel quite so sanguine as he had at first that they would succeed, either themselves or through their wide-flung messages, in capturing the fellow.

  27. In the war which followed, Ixtlilxochitl reversed the tide and invaded the Tepanec territory, besieging and capturing its capital, Azcapuzalco.

  28. He elucidates the early practice of capturing a wife, and controverts Morgan’s Ancient Society.

  29. As particular examples we may select Morgan's boldest and greatest raid in 1862, when he passed through Kentucky and Indiana, capturing large stores from the enemy.

  30. Both scramble back down the slope quicker than they ascended it, knowing there is good reason for haste--the best for their lives--every thing may depend on capturing the peon.

  31. Afterwards we discovered game, and were successful in capturing it.

  32. I am the mutiny, and in capturing me you have got the whole of it," declared Ridge.

  33. In capturing him I notice that the extremities of the wing-covers are slightly damaged.

  34. The practice of capturing wives prevails in certain parts of the world, and traces of it are met with in the marriage ceremonies of several peoples, indicating that it occurred more frequently in past ages.

  35. Carrying his prisoners back to Plymouth, he set out again the next night, and was equally successful in capturing every one of this second band.

  36. All these men immediately co-operated with Captain Church's company, and aided in capturing their remaining friends.

  37. In the end the Australasians, after capturing and losing it many times, made good their title to the position.

  38. The task of capturing this trench was entrusted to the 3rd Australian Brigade.

  39. Illustration: A Battalion of New Zealand Mounted Rifles] The Otago Mounted Rifles and the Maori Contingent had the task of capturing a hill mass known as Bauchop's Hill.

  40. Kempenfelt in command of the latter squadron had just shown what could be done by his great exploit of capturing Guichen's convoy of military and naval stores for the West Indies.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "capturing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.