How to Use conception in a Sentence

conception

noun

• They have a clear conception of how the process works.
• They have very different conceptions of the proper role of government.
• He directed the project from conception to production.
• The movie in its conception and even from the script stage was always a wild ride.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2023
• Has your conception of what the genre is and what it can be shifted over the years?
  — Christopher Byrd, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2022
• The fact is, anonymity in donor conception has been on shaky ground for a while.
  — Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
• Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope in space.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 24 Dec. 2021
• Given the ways the world has changed over the past five years, has your conception of populism changed as well?
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 July 2021
• Just the fact that in the 1930s, the conception was this idea of a medical exam, which was this kind of strip test.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 1 Aug. 2024
• His Tips of the Day are a prick’s conception of what a nice person is supposed to act like.
  — Luke O'Neil, Esquire, 5 Jan. 2018
• The look of the films is something that can’t be determined a priori of the rest of its conception.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 16 Apr. 2018
• They were involved in the conception and the ideas and the execution.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2022
• Many people had the conception that a library was racks and racks of books and tables and chairs.
  — Lynn Horsley, kansascity, 11 Jan. 2018
• This conception hits the nail on the head of what the modern jewelry client is seeking.
  — Marley Gifford, Town & Country, 31 Oct. 2022
• My life had value from the moment of conception and so do all lives.
  — Amy Simonson, CNN, 14 Mar. 2022
• The third week after conception, all the organs are already there, even the DNA. . . .
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 20 Sep. 2021
• There were a lot of parts where the song changed a lot from my initial conception through the actual singing process.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 5 July 2023
• Twitter, in his conception, would be a true marketplace of ideas, a place where the wisdom of crowds would push the cream to the top.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
• The world only exists in your eyes—your conception of it.
  — F. Scott Fitzgerald, Esquire, 7 Mar. 2017
• But the character, in our conception of her, has a lot of things going on.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 22 Mar. 2021
• Most people have some kind of hazy conception of how the stock market works.
  — Bloomberg.com, 27 July 2017
• This classic scent hasn’t gone out of style since its conception in 1990.
  — Fiona Tapp, CNN Underscored, 29 Nov. 2020
• This is an artist’s conception of the Space Starship, which will land astronauts on the moon.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2023
• One palette takes 20 weeks to make — from conception to store.
  — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 30 Mar. 2018
• The conception was great but the execution has been a mess.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2024
• Despite the common conceptions of deserts as hot, there are cold deserts as well.
  — Christina Nunez, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
• What was the creative process behind the conception of your new EP, zero?
  — Talia Smith, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Nov. 2021
• That liberty is a conception of the modern West about how artists should work, and it’s on view in the second show.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2021
• There’s also the fact that every embryo at the moment of conception is technically a female.
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 22 Jan. 2025
• Trump has positioned himself as a champion of IVF even though his right-wing Republican allies have passed laws declaring that life starts at conception, a stance that effectively outlaws the procedure.
  — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 11 Mar 2025