Sample sentences for CONDUCIVE

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Definition

contribute (help lead to a result)

conducive = helpful

conducive = that contributed

conducive = helpful

They want to create an environment conducive to both small business success and consumer protection.

conducive = that contributes

Decentralizing power and economic incentives are conducive to giving new ideas a chance.

conducive = helpful

Government sponsorship of religion has not proved conducive to religious growth.

conducive = helpful

conducive = helpful

[When the ghost told Scrooge it had come for his welfare] Scrooge expressed himself much obliged, but could not help thinking that a night of unbroken rest would have been more conducive to that end.
Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

conducive = helpful (to a result)

conducive = contributing (to a result)

conducive = helpful

The planning commission's focus on growth is not conducive to protecting the environment.

conducive = helpful

conducive = helpful

conducive = helpful

The stench in the back of the truck wasn't conducive to hunger, but eventually, rolling slowly through the night, his animal instincts won out.
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea
The room was cold and sterile, and it did not seem conducive to anybody's getting well, but Lou was not counting on medicine to make the woman better.
David Baldacci -- Wish You Well
At this very moment he is wild to see you, and occupied only in contriving the means for doing so, and for making his pleasure conduce to yours.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
That is not conducive to a quiet discussion.
Ellen Hopkins -- Glass
The vermin ditch of Benares is no less conducive to giddiness than the lions' ditch of Babylon.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
Dick thought, for example, that nothing was more conducive to the development of observation than compulsory silence.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
He understood why Aron could not work at home in an atmosphere not conducive to hard clean thought.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden

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