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Archaeologists debated the significance of the artifact discovered in the ruins of Asia Minor but came to no conclusion.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONCLUSIVE
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conclusive
 a.  decisive or convincing; achieved easily or by a large margin
Classic Sentence: (166 in 12 pages)
1  The conference was neither so short nor so conclusive as the lady had designed.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
2  Nothing could be more conclusive.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
3  They were all five arrested, but the evidence against them was by no means conclusive.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
4  Now," said Pumblechook, and all this with a most exasperating air of saying in the cause of virtue what was perfectly convincing and conclusive, "I will tell you what to say to Joseph.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVIII
5  And turning over the beautifully written, wide-margined manuscript, Alexey Alexandrovitch read aloud over again the conclusive passage.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 17
6  And if the above example of France and Genoa suffice not to show the futility of this course, that of Florence and Pisa ought, I think, to be conclusive.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIV.
7  So that this instance cannot be considered conclusive as against others of a contrary tendency.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIV.
8  It is, nevertheless, conclusive to my mind.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 57. In the Lucerne Patch.
9  Zeena took the view that Mattie was bound to make the best of Starkfield since she hadn't any other place to go to; but this did not strike Ethan as conclusive.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
10  The response which bore upon the name of the street and not upon the street itself, appeared to Marius to be more conclusive than it really was.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII—THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS
11  From long habit the train of thoughts ran so swiftly through my mind, that I arrived at the conclusion without being conscious of intermediate steps.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
12  I thought you would come to that conclusion.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
13  In more fertile spots the observer would have come to the conclusion that one of those great herds of bisons which graze upon the prairie land was approaching him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
14  Having sniffed the dead man's lips I detected a slightly sour smell, and I came to the conclusion that he had had poison forced upon him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
15  I had already come to the conclusion, since there were no signs of a struggle, that the blood which covered the floor had burst from the murderer's nose in his excitement.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
16  Reasoning by analogy, we can come to no other conclusion, unless their advent is anticipated by the arrival of ready-made colonists from the more advanced earth, like ourselves.
17  He asks occasional questions, but usually just about how the speaker came to a certain conclusion, it's the thought process more than the answer that seems to intrigue him.
18  This conclusion was reached in a roundabout but nevertheless perfectly reliable way.
19  She had come to the general conclusion.
20  Archaeologists debated the significance of the artifact discovered in the ruins of Asia Minor but came to no conclusion.
21  "I refuse to swallow your conclusion," said she, finding his logic unpalatable.
22  Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
23  It is possible to infer two completely opposite conclusions from this set of facts.
24  We can safely draw some conclusions from our discussion.
25  The reader is left to draw his or her own conclusions.
26  I can't draw any conclusions from what she said.
27  He reached some tentative conclusions about the possible cause of the accident.
28  He is a powerful fellow, I can see, I shouldn't like to try conclusions with him.
29  The conclusions must have some solid foundation in reality.
30  The conclusions of the report are fundamentally wrong.