Sample Sentences for
conclusive
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    "I'm not hankering to be the man that lays hands on you while he's around," Pete announced conclusively, nodding his head toward Buck.  (source)
    conclusively = without doubt
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    The sign of the Death Hallows on Ignotus's grave is conclusive proof!†  (source)
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    Earlier in the evening Sam had confirmed that the photograph of the unknown hiker faxed down from Alaska was indeed Chris, but the coroner in Fairbanks required Chris's dental records to make a conclusive identification.†  (source)
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    A review of the other factors set out above does not provide conclusive evidence that the witness, Ralph Meyers, perjured himself at the original trial.†  (source)
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    Here, Montaigne quoted an array of unimpeachable authorities from the Golden Age who confirmed conclusively that sadness is an emotion best shared.†  (source)
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    He remembers reading this and thinking then, like now, how his attraction to math has always sprung from its conclusiveness, the way you could, on your own, get to a lone, irrefutable answer something no one could take away-and how this series stuff is something else, how it's all about just getting close.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Standing there, he looked uncertain, as if he were on the verge of rushing in with some much more heated apology or outburst, but the silence that hung between us had a decidedly conclusive air, and he shoved his hands in his pockets.†  (source)
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    But the fastest boys are greyhounds, harvested from all over the nation for their speed and eagerness to obey, and they seem to Werner to be running more fervently, more conclusively, than they have before.†  (source)
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    And the catheads had sat down on themselves with the conclusiveness of a fat woman sitting in an easy chair.†  (source)
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    That sounds very conclusive.†  (source)
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    We have records of at least three letters to a friend in Kenosha, Wisconsin, that seem to prove conclusively that Mrs. White believed, from her fifth month on, that she had "a cancer of the womanly parts" and would soon join her husband in heaven.... When Miss Desjardin led Carrie up to the office fifteen minutes later, the halls were mercifully empty.†  (source)
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    And in proof of the conclusiveness of his opinion all the wrinkles vanished from his face.†  (source)
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    The Vola-tiles have done conclusive studies that show how humankind's usefulness is past and from this point on human beings constitute a threat to the Core.†  (source)
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