Sample Sentences for

convey

grouped by contextual meaning

(editor-reviewed)

Please convey my gratitude for her hospitality.

And it was a peculiar situation that Wu was trying to convey.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

It was not a move designed to elicit arousal, but it was certainly a designed move, because Augustus Waters was no improviser. So what had he been trying to convey?  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

He put down his pencil, laced his fingers together, and leaned forward the way parents do when they want to convey something to a toddler.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, 2007

Even from a distance, their eyes conveyed the strength of their souls.  (source) Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, 1988

The killing brings doom upon his ship, conveying the message that those looking for refuge shouldn't be persecuted, as they may often bring good fortune.†  (source) Joshua Davis, Spare Parts, 2014

To call this conveyance a "passenger dirigible" is an exercise in creative semantics.†  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

Everything it conveys is wrong. The open distrust of Finnick, the implication that Peeta has his eye on Annie, that Annie could desert Finnick, that I do not even exist.  (source) Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, 2010

Encourag'd, however, by this, I wrote and convey'd in the same way to the press several more papers which were equally approv'd; and I kept my secret till my small fund of sense for such performances was pretty well exhausted and then I discovered it, when I began to be considered a little more by my brother's acquaintance, and in a manner that did not quite please him, as he thought, probably with reason, that it tended to make me too vain.†  (source) Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1791

It was there in her dull, metal-gray eyes, a cold, terrible surety unlike anything a normal pretty could ever convey.  (source) Scott Westerfeld, Uglies, 2005

Dark and emotive, they suggested a trace of exotic blood in his heritage, Greek, maybe, or Chippewa, and conveyed a vulnerability that made Westerberg want to take the kid under his wing.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

The dress came just up to her darkly suntanned shoulders, the delicate material clinging to her torso but not so tightly as to be indecent, the handsome drape conveying only the suggestion of the young woman beneath.†  (source) Chang-rae Lee, A Gesture Life, 1999

But while weaving through traffic his side mirror scraped the door of a shiny black luxury SUV, the conveyance of some industrialist or bigwig, costing more than a house, and Saeed steeled himself for a shouting, perhaps even a beating, but the guard who stepped out of the front passenger-side door of the SUV, assault rifle pointed skyward, merely had time to look at Saeed, a smooth, ferocious glance, before being summoned back in, and the SUV sped off, its owner clearly not wishing, on this night, to tarry.†  (source) Moshin Hamid, Exit West, 2017

This document conveys title to the new owner.

Suppose a New York law says that a married woman cannot convey her property.  (source) James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay, The Federalist Papers -- Modern English Edition 2, 2008

Am I to go to him and make a deed of conveyance?  (source) Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, 1877

I accepted the explanation in silence; but she had told me that my child belonged to her daughter, and I suspected that her real motive was a fear of my conveying her property away from her.  (source) Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861

Agreements to convey lands claimed under the grants of different States are another example of the need for an equitable jurisdiction in the federal courts.  (source) James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay, The Federalist Papers -- Modern English Edition 2, 2008

The little village and the rather fine town house which formed part of her dowry he did his utmost for a long time to transfer to his name, by means of some deed of conveyance.  (source) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 1880

If the law allows an opulent citizen but a single vote in the choice of his representative, the respect and consequence which he derives from his fortunate situation very frequently guide the votes of others to the objects of his choice; and through this imperceptible channel the rights of property are conveyed into the public representation.  (source) James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay, The Federalist Papers, 1788

I shall set up chambers in the City, and work at actuarial calculations and conveyancing.  (source) George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893

The Conduits, and Wayes by which it is conveyed to the Publique use, are of two sorts; One, that Conveyeth it to the Publique Coffers; The other, that Issueth the same out againe for publique payments.†  (source) Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651

Could we infer from this regulation that a married woman could not get the approval of her relatives when conveying property of inferior value?  (source) James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay, The Federalist Papers -- Modern English Edition 2, 2008

At an early date they shortened the English law-phrase, /to convey by deed/, to the simple verb, /to deed/.  (source) Henry L. Mencken, The American Language, 1919

In answer to the prosecutor's inquiry, where he would have got the remaining two thousand three hundred roubles, since he himself had denied having more than fifteen hundred, Mitya confidently replied that he had meant to offer the "little chap," not money, but a formal deed of conveyance of his rights to the village of Tchermashnya, those rights which he had already offered to Samsonov and Madame Hohlakov.  (source) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 1880

He hired a small office down in the town and hung out a tin sign with these words on it: DAVID WILSON ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR-AT-LAW SURVEYING, CONVEYANCING, ETC.  (source) Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894

We hired a carriage to convey us to the city.

It's a desert world with practically no atmosphere to convey sound.  (source) Andy Weir, The Martian, 2011

The nearest station is Oakbridge, you will be met there and motored to Sticklehaven where a motor launch will convey you to Indian Island.  (source) Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, 1939

The guards lift me up above the fray, where I continue to thrash as I'm conveyed over the crush of people.  (source) Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, 2010

At present, convey yourself and him away.  (source) Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, 1846

At the sight of the women with buckets and dippers, the conveyances halted and the chorus went up in cries, in whispers: "Water!"  (source) Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, 1936

They made conveyance of goods unwieldy.  (source) Lois Lowry, The Giver, 1993

On September 20th two covered carts went off laden to Buckland, conveying the furniture and goods that Frodo had not sold to his new home, by way of the Brandywine Bridge.  (source) J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954

The two first were clerks to an eminent scrivener or conveyancer in the town, Charles Brogden; the other was clerk to a merchant.†  (source) Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1791

"They have only differed on some point of science," he thought; and being a man of no scientific passions (except in the matter of conveyancing), he even added: "It is nothing worse than that!"  (source) Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1886

Our conveyancers, in describing real property, always speak of "all that /lot/ or /parcel/ of land."†  (source) Henry L. Mencken, The American Language, 1919

The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come conveyed him, as before ... into the resorts of business men, but showed him not himself.  (source) Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, 1843

...he had consequently hired a vessel to convey him to Constantinople, for which city he should sail in a few hours.  (source) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1831