Capulet is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Capulet meaning
A member or citizen of the family, party, or country of the wife in a Romeo and Juliet couple and/or one of a pair of feuding groups, the other identified as Montague.
Using Capulet
- The main meaning on this page is: A member or citizen of the family, party, or country of the wife in a Romeo and Juliet couple and/or one of a pair of feuding groups, the other identified as Montague.
- In the example corpus, capulet often appears in combinations such as: lady capulet, capulet and, the capulet.
Context around Capulet
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 7 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Capulet
- In this selection, "capulet" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, lady, crashing, juliet, stunned, juliet and divide stand out and add context to how "capulet" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include all very capulet and montague and and juliet capulet. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "capulet" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with capulet
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It's all very Capulet and Montague of them. (9 words)
As for Lady Capulet’s favored reading material, it’s Cosmopolitan magazine. (12 words)
Lady Capulet and Juliet's nurse try to persuade Juliet to accept Paris's courtship. (15 words)
The disconnect and alternate stances aren’t strong enough in the formulations to sustain the framing, while Sola Fadiran (Broadway’s ) unconvincing attempt to portray both Capulet and Lady Capulet in an over-the-top fashion for no apparent reason. (40 words)
The same can be said of the always reliable and talented Graham Abbey (Stratford’s Much Ado About Nothing) as Capulet, Juliet’s father, who has to manage his emotional state through a range as large as a roller coaster. (40 words)
After the ball, in what is now called the "balcony scene", Romeo sneaks into the Capulet orchard and overhears Juliet at her window vowing her love to him in spite of her family's hatred of the Montagues. (38 words)
Example sentences (16)
The disconnect and alternate stances aren’t strong enough in the formulations to sustain the framing, while Sola Fadiran (Broadway’s ) unconvincing attempt to portray both Capulet and Lady Capulet in an over-the-top fashion for no apparent reason.
Amy Roberts, playing Lady Capulet, stunned the audience with her quick wit and dreamy vocals during the original numbers.
But after 13 years of research a dozen cans have been produced using a variety of the bean called capulet, which has been grown in Lincolnshire.
His boisterous friends Benvolio and Mercutio hope to bring him out of his lovesick depression by crashing Capulet’s masquerade party.
It's all very Capulet and Montague of them.
The now-cult classic stars DiCaprio and Claire Danes as the titular star-crossed lovers, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet.
The same can be said of the always reliable and talented Graham Abbey (Stratford’s Much Ado About Nothing) as Capulet, Juliet’s father, who has to manage his emotional state through a range as large as a roller coaster.
One of the most striking things about Neuilly is its Montague-vs-Capulet divide between “old money” and “new money”.
As for Lady Capulet’s favored reading material, it’s Cosmopolitan magazine.
After the ball, in what is now called the "balcony scene", Romeo sneaks into the Capulet orchard and overhears Juliet at her window vowing her love to him in spite of her family's hatred of the Montagues.
Capulet, for example, when he first discovers Juliet's (faked) death, describes it as having deflowered his daughter.
Capulet, misinterpreting Juliet's grief, agrees to marry her to Count Paris and threatens to disown her when she refuses to become Paris's "joyful bride".
Following her torpedoing of the British ship Capulet on 28 April, which only managed to damage the vessel, U-552 was depth-charged in five separate attacks by two accompanying destroyers.
Lady Capulet and Juliet's nurse try to persuade Juliet to accept Paris's courtship.
Romeo sneaks into the Capulet barbecue to meet Juliet, and Juliet discovers Tybalt's death while in class at school.
Tybalt, meanwhile, still incensed that Romeo had sneaked into the Capulet ball, challenges him to a duel.
Common combinations with capulet
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: