All 14 Uses
convey
in
Cutting for Stone
(Auto-generated)
- There was not a bit of good news they could convey.†
Part 4 *convey = communicate or express
- I squeezed his fingers, a Morse code to convey what was in my heart.†
Part 4 *convey = transport
- How could she convey to her mother that the sum total of all this made him not ugly, but strangely beautiful.†
Part 1
- On the other side of the face he'd removed all subcutaneous tissue and fat to reveal the myriad muscles of expression whose concerted movements in life had conveyed her sorrow, joy, and every emotion in between.†
Part 1
- What he tried to convey was clear enough; there was no mistaking it.†
Part 1
- She closed her eyes, the better to receive what her fingertips conveyed about the pelvic width, the baby's position.†
Part 1
- Ghosh felt a message being conveyed to him.†
Part 2
- So Matron told Harris everything, a rush of simple sentences that were weighed down by what they conveyed.†
Part 2
- They conveyed apprehension, amusement, and even a befuddled look that reminded me of Stan of Laurel and Hardy fame—we saw their films at Cinema Adowa.†
Part 3
- She smiled out of habit, but her brows conveyed her puzzlement.†
Part 3
- All the letters I had written for Zemui to Darwin inquiring about his family and conveying best wishes from his pal had given no clue that Genet was his child.†
Part 3
- He'd asked Ghosh to convey his love to her and to Rosina.†
Part 3
- But he had a way of conveying his surgical experience in the context of scientific principles that made it quite readable.†
Part 3
- The news to convey in Africa was that you'd kept death at bay.†
Part 4
Definitions:
-
(1)
(convey as in: convey her thoughts) communicate or express
-
(2)
(convey as in: convey title to the property) to give or transfer -- especially legal title
-
(3)
(convey as in: convey her safely to) transportToday, this sense of convey is seldom seen outside of historic literature.
-
(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely (and then probably in classic literature), conveyance can refer to a carriage or other means of transportation.