How to Use capper in a Sentence

capper

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  • But that was only the capper to the big night for The Crown.
    — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The injury is a rude capper to his best month as a pro.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 1 May 2021
  • The capper of the day will be host Russia's second game, which is against Egypt.
    — USA TODAY, 18 June 2018
  • Then came Game 5, which proved to be a most fitting capper.
    — Paul Newberry, ajc, 28 May 2022
  • The capper was a solo homer in the 12th on the first pitch after Joey Gallo went deep to break a 6-6 tie.
    — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 2 May 2018
  • Wednesday night was just the capper to a dream campaign.
    — Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The capper, though, was Isaiah Thomas icily tossing the ball to Murray at the end of the game.
    — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The capper will be a speech by Indiana coach Archie Miller.
    — Mike Hutton, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • But the capper was a 52-yard touchdown to Jalen Wayne in the second quarter, a ball that traveled some 57 yards in the air.
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 4 Sep. 2022
  • But the capper was a classic gymnastics move -- a round off with a twist.
    — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Nov. 2020
  • The capper was Ronaldo's hat trick, in which the third goal came on a laser of a free kick that went into the top right corner of the goal and tied the score at 3-3.
    — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 29 June 2018
  • The senior had six carries on the drive, including the capper.
    — Eric Bem, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Wagner’s score was the capper on a night in which John Gibson was strong again in goal with 26 saves.
    — Eric Stephens, Orange County Register, 4 Apr. 2017
  • The matchup between New Orleans and Minnesota, two of the West’s worst teams, will serve as the capper to a six-game, two-week trip.
    — Christian Clark, NOLA.com, 22 Jan. 2021
  • This was a strange capper to a strange football weekend for the three Florida teams.
    — Peter King, SI.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Lucas Raymond scored the capper and assisted on the others for the Red Wings.
    — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2022
  • The capper on the drive was a beastly 64-yard touchdown run from junior Mason Tanoa.
    — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2022
  • But the capper is the future-seeing Dr. Fate changing the future to his own detriment.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2022
  • In April came the capper when the Fed vowed to go all in and buy something even pension funds wouldn't dare touch—corporate junk.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 22 June 2020
  • Washington had 166 total yards in the loss to the Ducks, which was the capper to a long run of issues with Donovan’s system.
    — Tim Booth, baltimoresun.com, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Story clubbed his third homer of the game, the capper to a 12-6 victory with Story as their lead writer.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2022
  • And that darker-than-dark capper doesn’t do anything to erase the material along the way that does have some mirth to it.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Apr. 2022
  • And The Irishman is one of his top five films in the gangster genre, an unquestioned career-capper.
    — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Sweet lovers will enjoy the Bourbon Caramel Bread Pudding, a nice capper with a hint of decadence.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The idea is to produce a third season for the trilogy’s capper, The Amber Spyglass, next.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • This would be a capper to everything that’s come before.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Feb. 2022
  • But 18 months is a long time to wait for six episodes of TV, which will function as little more than a capper to the epic series that came before it.
    — Tom Philip, GQ, 28 Aug. 2017
  • The award is meant as a balance to the Johnny Mercer Award, which is a career capper for a legendary writer.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 5 May 2023
  • That was the capper of the strangest season Elgin Baylor, or any great player, ever had.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The substitute Graham Zusi added a capper in the 87th minute, but the game had been decided long before.
    — Jamie Trecker, New York Times, 7 June 2016

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