CONVICTION in a Sentence

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In my lifetime of investing, it is a conviction that has never been shaken: Reward is a function of risk, and vice versa.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONVICTION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
conviction
 n.  judgment that someone is guilty of crime; strongly held belief
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  After the lapse of time that has passed since their crime, it was impossible for me to secure a conviction against them in any court.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
2  He looked at her with some disappointment in his face, but with a respectful and patient conviction that she must be right in whatever she did.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X
3  Mr. Bounderby seemed agreeably surprised, notwithstanding his previous strong conviction.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI
4  'I should want to come back,' she said, with a quiet simplicity, heavy with conviction.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
5  Clifford felt her conviction, and somehow he believed her, he believed it was for him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
6  Some of the young ones spout about a Soviet, but there's not much conviction in them.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
7  There's no sort of conviction about anything, except that it's all a muddle and a hole.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
8  Fanny's answer was extremely civil, and Edmund added his conviction that she could be in no hurry.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  In spite of this conviction, however, she was glad.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
10  He was surprised; but after a few moments' silent consideration of her, replied in a calmer, graver tone, and as if the candid result of conviction, "I believe you are right."
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  His conviction of her regard for him was sometimes very strong; he could look back on a long course of encouragement, and she was as perfect in disinterested attachment as in everything else.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
12  Yet some happiness must and would arise from the very conviction that he did suffer.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  The conviction of his determination once admitted, it was not unwelcome.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
14  It had been the shock of conviction as she read.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
15  The horror of a mind like Fanny's, as it received the conviction of such guilt, and began to take in some part of the misery that must ensue, can hardly be described.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
Example Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
16  He is on hunger strike in protest at what he claims is his wrongful conviction for murder.
17  Even her conviction for murder did not shake Peter's judgment that Harriet was innocent of the crime.
18  The former telecommunications magnate is now living overseas, mostly in Dubai and Montenegro, to avoid imprisonment on a corruption conviction.
19  At eighteen most people wish to please, and the conviction that they have not an exterior likely to second that desire brings anything but gratification.
20  They are simply using the first rule in contemporary American politics: the accusation is the conviction.
21  In my lifetime of investing, it is a conviction that has never been shaken: Reward is a function of risk, and vice versa.
22  The instability of the Italian government following the tax-fraud conviction of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi threatens to end a lull in the European debt crisis and derail a nascent economic recovery.
23  No school would touch a teacher who had been convicted of assault.
24  He was convicted on the uncorroborated evidence of the alleged victim.
25  Jan was convicted of possessing an offensive weapon.
26  He was convicted of carrying an offensive weapon.
27  Any officer who is convicted of conduct unbecoming an officer shall be court-martialled.
28  He was convicted of filing false income tax returns.
29  He was convicted of corruption, and will be disqualified from office for seven years.
30  He was convicted of having unlawful sex with an underage girl.