How to Use capping in a Sentence

capping

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  • There was a strong capping inversion in place — a layer of warm air in place about a mile above the ground.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 17 May 2018
  • The grandparents of 11 trudged through 5 feet of white-capping water.
    — Janine Zeitlin, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2022
  • This black ale manages to be dark but not bitter, thanks to a German technique called mash capping.
    — Ac Shilton, Outside Online, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Thompson was fouled making the steal, then made two more free throws before his game-capping breakaway dunk.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Jan. 2022
  • The contracts are designed to protect the state if Nordaq doesn't properly plug and abandon the wells within a year and the state is forced to pay for their capping and cleanup.
    — Alex Demarban, Alaska Dispatch News, 25 July 2017
  • The big YouTube ad-tech pitch to Madison Avenue was the new ad-frequency capping solution.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 17 May 2022
  • Schiphol capping flights, and even suggesting the customers don't check bags when connecting.
    — Ben Baldanza, Forbes, 25 July 2022
  • For manual cool capping, patients are responsible for the dry ice as well as training costs for a loved one to replace the cap.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Thompson was fouled making the steal, then hit two more free throws before a game-capping breakaway dunk after Baylor missed its last shot.
    — Stephen Hawkins, ajc, 16 Jan. 2022
  • The package included rent waivers, new exploration incentives and the capping and waiving of charges and fees.
    — CNN, 24 Sep. 2020
  • This is rich, coming from the Global Warming capo on the left, he who relishes rhetorical knee-capping.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2011
  • National City may adopt a law next month capping rent increases at mobile home parks.
    — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2022
  • In 2017, a federal court struck down the FCC's capping of intrastate prison phone calls, resulting in much higher costs for inmates making calls in state.
    — Luke Barr, ABC News, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The company cites a bottleneck in the bottling, capping and labeling process.
    — Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Feb. 2021
  • Eventually, the app and smart cards will also offer fare capping, to prevent riders from paying above the cost of an all-day or monthly pass.
    — Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Perhaps the most startling shift came last week, when the president began a slow, brutal, public knee-capping of his chief strategist, Steve Bannon.
    — Emily Jane Fox, The Hive, 14 Apr. 2017
  • At the top of the formation, where the ambient air temperature dropped below freezing, the vapor froze to create a smooth white surface, like a meringue—a process called ice-capping.
    — The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Other cities are considering capping fees, at least until the health crisis ends.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 29 Jan. 2022
  • The partners have done much of the work by hand — cooking and stirring the red sauce in 40-gallon pots with a paddle the size of a rowboat oar; filling, capping and labeling each 24-ounce jar; packing cases for shipment.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Debit and credit card users will also benefit from fare capping.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The capping system was constructed to promote water runoff and prevent water from migrating into the CCR to ensure the integrity of the sites.
    — Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 3 July 2022
  • Moderna has been ramping up production of its vaccine, but the process of filling, capping and labeling millions of tiny vials has emerged as a roadblock.
    — Noah Weiland, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2021
  • But it’s not early adopters who have the most to gain here: Fare capping means that lower-income riders avoid the upfront investment that an unlimited card requires.
    — Valeria Ricciulli, Curbed, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Its discovery halted the construction of a new atrium that will cover the landscaped yard area, but with the capping underway, Heckelmoser felt the project was getting back on track.
    — Carey L. Biron, Journal Sentinel, 7 June 2022
  • Among the options listed is the extension of maturities on euro-area loans to Greece, as well as the capping and deferral of interest payments.
    — Viktoria Dendrinou, Bloomberg.com, 22 May 2017
  • Furthermore, without frequency capping, consumers may get the same messages again and again.
    — Kenneth Suh, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The mechanism could entail measures such as further re-profiling of Greek loans and the capping and deferral of interest payments, the statement said.
    — Viktoria Dendrinou, Bloomberg.com, 15 June 2017
  • Dutcher pointed to a conference-capping win last season at Nevada.
    — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Orlando signed off on new rules of the road for its electric scooter program Monday, including capping speeds to 10 mph and charging companies a nickel more per ride.
    — Ryan Gillespie, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Track management’s comfort level with capping attendance was fueled by the huge increase of off-track betting that grew out of sports lovers being marooned at home in the early days of the pandemic.
    — Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2022

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