How to Use conduit in a Sentence

conduit

noun
  • The vagus nerve is, in one way of thinking, the conduit of the mind.
    — R. Douglas Fields, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
  • It’s sort of the conduit between yourself and the truth.
    — al, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Breed had pitched the center as a conduit to longer-term care.
    — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Tom is like a conduit of Alice a lot of the time in her sense of humor.
    — ELLE, 28 Mar. 2022
  • They are thought to form at the top of the conduit as magma gushes up it.
    — Robin George Andrews, Wired, 6 June 2021
  • Smart TVs are poised to be the viewing conduit for the household of the future.
    — Gavin Bridge, Variety, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The supposed victim—the bank—was a mere conduit for the funds and didn't lose a penny.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 8 July 2020
  • Asha, the hero of the kingdom Rosas, is a conduit for empathy.
    — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The pipeline is a 20-inch-wide conduit that runs for miles through the Houston area.
    — Juan A. Lozano, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
  • That dead body is the conduit that allows all those emotions to come in.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Pash has been a conduit between the NFL office and teams for years.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Oct. 2021
  • The distance or lapse between, then, is a kind of conduit to the next chronotope.
    — Ross Kenneth Urken, Scientific American, 14 June 2021
  • One of the main reasons is that the underground wiring is faulty and not buried in conduit.
    — Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Hallways are the conduit from room to room within your home.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The carpal tunnel is a narrow conduit in the wrist made up of small bones and soft tissues.
    — Benjamin Plackett, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2024
  • It’s been a conduit for the Norman, Okla., native to play closer to home.
    — Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Regardless, the cave serves as a conduit for her tribe to learn about their past.
    — Megan Gannon, National Geographic, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Poetry is a conduit that that opens our minds and hearts to the ancient wisdom of the wild.
    — Deborah Calmeyer, Travel + Leisure, 16 Dec. 2023
  • There is a lake and a mountain and a red-striped lighthouse that seems to act as a conduit for the northern lights.
    — Rick Jordan, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Nord Stream 1 running across the Baltic from Russia to Germany is the largest conduit.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2022
  • The Panama Canal is a conduit for 6% of the global maritime traffic.
    — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The porous border has long been a conduit for the smuggling of people, weapons, and drugs.
    — Kareem Chehayeb and Abby Sewell, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Feb. 2025
  • The music served as a conduit to that, through that evolution.
    — Vulture, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Their logic is in believing that these wallets will be the conduit to the new wave of apps.
    — William Mougayar, Fortune Crypto, 28 May 2023
  • The left, if possessed of the same faith, can become a conduit for that energy.
    — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 9 Nov. 2020
  • In the process, the dome can plug up the conduit that is letting lava and volcanic gases escape.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
  • No, the Democratic Party needs to be a conduit for the healing of this country.
    — ABC News, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Broadband conduit will also be installed as part of the project.
    — Gregory Svirnovskiy, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The United Front, the party unit in charge of ethnic affairs, has been the conduit for much of this spending.
    — Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 16 July 2021
  • Foreign assistance is a conduit for helping the U.S. achieve its foreign policy goals.
    — Ivana Saric, Axios, 31 Jan. 2025

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