How to Use convene in a Sentence

convene

verb

• This class convenes twice a week.
• We convened at the hotel for a seminar.
• A panel of investigators was convened by the president to review the case.
• That means a shareholder cannot attempt to convene a new meeting, or sue the company as someone who owns the stock.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2022
• Newsom says his office will convene local government leaders this month to improve their plans.
  — Sophia Bollag, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2022
• The regulator may convene its own panel of vaccine advisers later this year on this topic, officials said.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2022
• The first will be on the challenges of winter — from energy to finance, and weapons to protect Ukraine’s skies — while the second will convene French businesses to discuss aid.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2022
• In the Mississippi flyway, in parts of the central United States, cranes convene in larger flocks during the winter, yet will only stay for about three weeks.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2022
• Kemp came under attack from Trump and his supporters for refusing to convene a special session of the state legislature to reconsider the results.
  — Matthew Brown, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022
• The group would convene within the first 30 days of her term in the White House.
  — Stephanie Murray, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2024
• In May of 2012, a panel was convened to debate whether the work of Christopher Hitchens would stand the test of time.
  — David Amsden, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
• The younger hikers convene in small groups, pull off their boots and settle in shady spots.
  — Rebecca Frankel, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
• Sexton’s workout group hasn’t convened since, and he and others have been left to train on their own.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 15 Apr. 2023
• In June, a Texas grand jury convened to decide if Scott and others who helped plan the event should be charged.
  — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2023
• The grand jury that was already convened was set to expire.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2023
• Although the panel won’t convene until April 2025, the new record seems likely at this point.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 7 Feb. 2024
• After all, Alfie has managed to convene us, you and me, on this page, in this moment.
  — Carl Safina, TIME, 5 Oct. 2023
• The session will convene in Annapolis Jan. 11 and end April 10.
  — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 4 Jan. 2023
• For more than three decades, hoofers-in-training have convened in downtown Chicago for Rhythm World.
  — Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2024
• In the late nineties, Susan Cox, a Korean adoptee, came up with the idea of convening adult Korean adoptees for the first time.
  — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
• There's no need to convene a full-on planning session here, but then again, a group text could go a little haywire.
  — Dana McMahan, The Courier-Journal, 25 Jan. 2023
• Over the course of a tense two-day period, the women convene in a hayloft to debate their options: do nothing, stay and fight or leave.
  — Meredith Blakestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022
• Grandes dames have the Paris couture shows, and major art collectors convene at Basel.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 1 Mar. 2023
• Eleven of us hung in different corners in midair and then convened on a stage covered with water.
  — Billboard China, Billboard, 11 May 2023
• With a little more infrastructure, the thinking goes, Reddit might be able to convene more sales and take a cut of the action.
  — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024
• One day, the school convened a talk with the students to negotiate a solution.
  — Azadeh Moaveni, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• After the Senate has convened, the majority makes the calls.
  — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2024
• The hordes of volunteers, performers and athletes convened to help bid Paris adieu to 19 days of the global spotlight.
  — Rob Ledonne, Billboard, 12 Aug. 2024
• In early November, a jury of 30 members from the Academy will convene in Geneva to inspect the finalists and decide the winners.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2024
• As a major airline tests a new enforcement technology, our editors convene to debate boarding etiquette.
  — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024