CONVENTIONAL in a Sentence

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1. Mine was a conventional family upbringing.
2. The officer's profanity sounded conventional.
3. She left the convent before taking her final vows.
4. By convention the deputy leader is always a woman.
5. She is a young woman who enjoys flouting conventions.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONVENTIONAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
conventional
 a.  based upon tradition rules; formed by agreement or compact
Classic Sentence: (171 in 12 pages)
1  Lily had such an air of always getting what she wanted that she was used to being appealed to as an intermediary, and, relieved of her vague apprehension, she took refuge in the conventional formula.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
2  During the interlude of music which succeeded the TABLEAUX, the actors had seated themselves here and there in the audience, diversifying its conventional appearance by the varied picturesqueness of their dress.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
3  It was not that she had, in the conventional sense, any doubt of Mrs. Hatch's irreproachableness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
4  Nine o'clock was an early hour for a visit, but Selden had passed beyond all such conventional observances.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
5  Think how much better you can criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  Their beauty shone out too boldly against a conventional background.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX
7  But Lena had picked up all the conventional expressions she heard at Mrs. Thomas's dressmaking shop.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
8  Within doors the appointments were perfect after the conventional type.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVII
9  He possessed a good figure, a pleasing face, not overburdened with depth of thought or feeling; and his dress was that of the conventional man of fashion.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXV
10  She draped it across the boy in graceful folds, and in a way to conceal his black, conventional evening dress.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXX
11  And Jurgis looked the fellow squarely in the eye, and so the fellow wasted no time in conventional protests, but read him the deed.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
12  He well knew that the authority of an Indian chief was so little conventional, that it was oftener maintained by physical superiority than by any moral supremacy he might possess.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
13  The officer's profanity sounded conventional.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
14  The men there seemed to be in conventional moods, altogether unaware of the impending annihilation.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
15  But angry honesty made a 'bad man' of him, and mealy-mouthedness made a 'nice woman' of her, in the vicious, conventional channelling of sympathy by Mrs Bolton.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
Example Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
16  Mine was a conventional family upbringing.
17  We must reduce the danger of war by controlling nuclear, chemical and conventional arms.
18  Internet connections through conventional phone lines are fairly slow.
19  She gives the impression of being rather conventional, but under the surface she is wildly eccentric.
20  This remarkable technology provides far greater clarity than conventional x-rays.
21  The streets of Beijing are thronged with two-wheeled contraptions; some appear to be conventional petrol mopeds but their eerie silence and lack of exhaust reveals them as electric.
22  It's a measure of how common these crimes have become, and how conventional the hackers' approach in this case, that Target was prepared for such an attack.
23  Playing together teaches children social conventions such as sharing.
24  She is a young woman who enjoys flouting conventions.
25  He would therefore argue that conventions are established by their acceptance by those who participate in the political arena.
26  A buxom widow must be either married, buried or shut up in a convent.
27  She left the convent before taking her final vows.
28  The nuns in the convent were noted for their piety; they spent their days in worship and prayer.
29  It's just a social convention that men don't wear skirts.
30  By convention the deputy leader is always a woman.