Sample Sentences for
convention
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(editor-reviewed)

convention as in:  teacher's convention

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She is at the convention in Las Vegas.
convention = large conference or meeting
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    Hotel rooms are expensive that week because so many people are attending a big convention.
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    Professor Binns, glancing up in the middle of a deadly dull lecture on the International Warlock Convention of 1289, looked amazed.  (source)
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    The Cobras were laughing because they figured the dumb, scraggly runt would get out of the East End in about as good shape as a bare big toe in a convention of snapping turtles.  (source)
    convention = large gathering
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    an international convention of optometrists in Montreal  (source)
    convention = formal gathering
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    At conventions, there were still colleagues who did not speak to one another.  (source)
    conventions = large conferences or meetings
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    You know, when these New Negroes have their convention—  (source)
    convention = large conference or meeting
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    In a single week, there might be committees, caucuses, colloquiums, congresses, and conventions variously coming together to establish codes, set courses of action, levy complaints, and generally clamor about the world's oldest problems in its newest nomenclature.  (source)
    conventions = large conferences or meetings
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    They debated about the size of heaven, at the Bible convention.  (source)
    convention = formal gathering
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    Simple: In January, the mayor of Moscow had called a convention of the city's architects to discuss the needs of the capital given the rapid growth in its population.  (source)
    convention = large conference or meeting
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    How would you feel if I said I was going to some keep-fit convention with—I don't know—Leanne from the Terrors because she needed cheering up?  (source)
    convention = large conference
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    Dey made him uh delegate tuh de Sunday School Convention and he read uh paper on Booker T. Washington and tore him tuh pieces!  (source)
    Convention = formal gathering
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    That was more fun than our last convention in Vegas!  (source)
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    A secretary told me that Larry was in Toronto, where he was attending a professional convention.  (source)
    convention = large conference or meeting
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convention as in:  conventional behavior

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It was once conventional wisdom that the earth is flat.
conventional = normal
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    In most countries, the convention is to shake the head to indicate "no", but in Bulgaria that indicates "yes".
    convention = something considered normal
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    They were inclined to dislike her because she is unconventional.
    unconventional = not normal (not like most people)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconventional means not and reverses the meaning of conventional. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    It is conventional wisdom.
    conventional = normal (expected of most people)
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    [of the nomadic Bedouin] …Nature and his relationship to it are a deadly-serious matter, prescribed by convention, mystery, and danger.  (source)
    convention = culturally normal behavior
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    Ariana's house is a twenty-minute walk, if you take the conventional route.  (source)
    conventional = normal or typical
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    The devil take all conventions, they were made for other times;  (source)
    conventions = behaviors regarded as normal
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    They didn't know what to make of this unconventional teenager any more than we had on the first day of school.  (source)
    unconventional = not regarded as normal
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconventional means not and reverses the meaning of conventional. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    He was not a conventionally good-looking man.†  (source)
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    Being Goth wipes away any expectation of conventionality, so Molly finds she's free to be weird in • lots of ways at once.†  (source)
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    I asked my brother if Kelly was unconventionally beautiful. "No, she's hot beautiful."  (source)
    unconventionally = in an unusual way
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconventionally means not and reverses the meaning of conventionally. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    There is considerable hypocrisy in conventionalism.†  (source)
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    He resembles the old Conventionalist of '93, who said to Napoleon, in 1814, 'You bend because your empire is a young stem, weakened by rapid growth.†  (source)
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    0ne of the less bullshitty conventions of the cancer kid genre is the Last Good Day convention, wherein the victim of cancer finds herself with some unexpected hours when it seems like the inexorable decline has suddenly plateaued, when the pain is for a moment bearable.  (source)
    convention = something treated as normal
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convention as in:  The Geneva Convention

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The European Convention on Human Rights binds about 50 European countries.
convention = written international agreement
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    The country has signed the United Nations Convention against Torture.
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    Dragon breeding was outlawed by the Warlocks' Convention of 1709, everyone knows that.  (source)
    Convention = a written international agreement
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    Each rule of the Great convention begins: "The forms must be obeyed . . . "  (source)
    Convention = an international agreement
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    Virtually nothing about Japan's use of POWs was in keeping with the Geneva Convention.  (source)
    Convention = an international agreement
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    Or, as it states in the pages of the Geneva Convention, unarmed civilians.  (source)
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    It doesn't sound like much, but it is clearly a form of torture that should be outlawed by the Geneva Convention, even for use on SEALs.  (source)
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    CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, had just come into effect, and the window on the trading of captured wild animals had slammed shut.  (source)
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    You know as well as I do that the Army adheres to the Geneva Convention.†  (source)
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    In Europe the medics were unarmed, according to the Geneva Convention; the Germans usually would not stoop to shooting a corpsman.†  (source)
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    I knew nothing about the Geneva Convention.  (source)
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    By the way, if anyone should dare to utter the words Geneva Convention while I'm writing this, I might more or less lose control.  (source)
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    The 1929 Geneva Convention, which Japan had signed but never ratified, permitted detaining powers to use POWs for labor, with restrictions.  (source)
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    Never mind there's no shooting across the border in Pakistan, the illegality of the Taliban army, the Geneva Convention, yada, yada, yada.  (source)
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