How to Use conceive in a Sentence

conceive

verb
Definition of conceivenext
Synonyms for conceivenext
  • As conceived by the committee, the bill did not raise taxes.
  • When the writer conceived this role, he had a specific actor in mind to play the part.
  • People who are pregnant or trying to conceive may avoid imbibing as well.
    — Amy Haneline, USA TODAY, 22 July 2022
  • Eladio is an impulsive idiot, unable to even conceive of the long game, let alone notice the one playing out under his nose.
    — Kat Rosenfield, EW.com, 19 July 2022
  • When Hall asked whether the couple was still in the process of trying to conceive a child, Dupart shared a note of optimism.
    — Aley Arion, Essence, 14 June 2022
  • As the book opens, after nearly two years of trying to conceive, Aviva is about to start menstruating again.
    — Clea Simon, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
  • Commission members will also have the ability to conceive their own possible changes.
    — cleveland, 8 June 2022
  • The moms told Fox News Digital that the term is regressive by defining a woman on her ability to conceive a child.
    — Hannah Grossman, Fox News, 28 July 2022
  • Murgatroyd and Maks are currently in the process of trying to conceive another baby together.
    — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE.com, 15 July 2022
  • Some birth control methods require women to delay trying to conceive after stopping contraception.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 11 July 2022
  • Donation of embryos, be it to science or another couple that’s trying to conceive, is a complicated alternative.
    — Dallas News, 14 July 2022
  • Murgatroyd, who had started thinking about fertility treatments as an option to conceive, anxiously awaited her husband's return home.
    — Lanae Brody, PEOPLE.com, 22 June 2022
  • National correspondent Trevor Hughes reports on people struggling to conceive who worry embryos are at risk.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 July 2022
  • After Wiig was unable to conceive via IVF, the couple decided to go with surrogacy.
    — Andrea Park, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2022
  • It’s hard to conceive, but the 2020 race would have been even tougher.
    — Michael Smolens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • A lot has changed since the project was first conceived.
    — Daniel Borenstein, The Mercury News, 11 May 2024
  • To me, 30 seemed like the right age to start trying to conceive.
    — Kaelyn Forde, Allure, 30 May 2018
  • As if he'd been conceived in a lab based on parts of past greats.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 29 May 2018
  • And when was 65 conceived in relation to the rest of your work?
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2023
  • That is, until the teens begin to doubt the premise of the game and the society that conceived it.
    — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 13 Feb. 2020
  • The house was conceived to flow from room to room without any doors!
    — Christiane Lemieux, House Beautiful, 6 Mar. 2020
  • The time away also gave you more time to conceive the new stage show.
    — Gary Graff, cleveland, 22 Dec. 2021
  • But this is not the first strobe weapon ever conceived—not by a long shot.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2019
  • Aviva and Sam try and try and try to conceive a child the old-fashioned way.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2022
  • The baby is conceived from a donor egg and the sperm of one of the intended parents.
    — Avichai Scher, NBC News, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Luther conceived of a church in some ways very close to Catholicism.
    — Marilynne Robinson, New Republic, 12 Dec. 2017
  • In the process of trying to conceive, couples often use the word we.
    — Fiorella Valdesolo, WSJ, 8 June 2022
  • The tiny baby sweater Okun knits helps her to conceive of new life after the death of two friends.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Like all Moser movements, this one is gorgeously conceived, constructed and finished.
    — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Its curvy supporting arches, which are being built from local brick, are conceived as hollow structures with openings that capture the wind and channel air into the building.
    — Adam Williams, New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2024

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