How to Use conventional in a Sentence

conventional

adjective

• His views on dating are more conventional than those of some of his friends.
• While microwaves heat up food more quickly, most food tastes better when it is cooked in a conventional oven.
• The number sign is the conventional symbol for labeling something measured in pounds.
• Most of her books are conventional detective stories.
• The book begins with what would be a conventional ending.
  — Danielle Amir Jackson, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2024
• And at the end, the core of all of this is this desire to be free of the conventional sort of molds that she has been confined to.
  — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
• But then again, little about the company’s path has been conventional so far.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024
• Most found the grind too hard going and the poverty too bleak, and within a few years returned to the city and more conventional lives.
  — Christine Ro, Longreads, 17 Sep. 2024
• These tests are the more conventional CBC, or complete blood count.
  — Andrew Zaleski, Men's Health, 20 Feb. 2023
• Coinciding with this trend, sales of conventional cars with internal combustion engines are down by a quarter in the last five years.
  — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2023
• Yet Witt desires a conventional outcome: having a child together.
  — Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2024
• These include: Cut-end mops or conventional string mops: These have a bunch of strings at the end and are generally inexpensive.
  — Bestreviews, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2024
• For the past dozen years, she’s been writing provocative music theater that doesn’t quite fit in any genre and that certainly doesn’t align with the current fashion of go-for-the-gut, conventional-narrative modern opera.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• The highly durable glass is oven-safe up to 752°F, which is well above what conventional home ovens can reach.
  — Women's Health, 21 Mar. 2023
• There's also a bathhouse built on the back of the host's home with a conventional toilet and shower.
  — Cari Shane, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Aug. 2023
• Jacob Walsh hit a conventional solo homer in the bottom of the sixth to give Oregon a 4-3 lead.
  — Michael Lev, The Arizona Republic, 28 May 2023
• In fact, the arty posturing in La Chimera is rather conventional.
  — Armond White, National Review, 3 Apr. 2024
• Green funds tend to do about as well as their conventional counterparts, at least for now.
  — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2023
• Bird, for instance, tries to counsel the younger men to settle down with a good woman and let the rhythms of a conventional life console them.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• At the 2022 Met Gala, the Spencer star eschewed conventional red carpet-wear and floor-length gowns for a cropped tuxedo with hot shorts from the French fashion house.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 May 2023
• Koenig, meanwhile, decided to go for a less conventional red pin-stripe suit with a black button-down and messy bangs to tie it in.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024
• In a conventional war, a U.S. carrier battle group could face scores of AS-4 missiles launched by dozens of bombers.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2023
• The United States makes very few conventional bombs larger than 2,000 pounds.
  — John Ismay, New York Times, 11 May 2024
• Cole recalled this time as a stab at conventional all-American life – at least on the surface.
  — oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2023
• There was in the Registry, besides, her portrait, painted by an artist of the time in the conventional style of the time: haloed, illumined, awestruck eyes fixed upward to the heavens.
  — Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
• The wing directs the airflow above the driver’s head, eliminating the need for a conventional windscreen.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 20 Apr. 2023
• What will set this store apart from a conventional grocery store is its focus on local food and goods, Pioli said.
  — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2023
• Yes, there were slap jokes, as part of an amusing and mostly conventional monologue.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2023
• The actor is in the midst of promoting her new Netflix movie, Leave the World Behind, and lately she’s been showing off how to put a twist on more conventional looks.
  — Fernanda Pérez Sánchez, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2023
• Arnett faces a tough task in converting his program from its Air Raid roots to a more conventional style of offense.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 17 July 2023

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024