How to Use conventional in a Sentence

conventional

adjective
  • His views on dating are more conventional than those of some of his friends.
  • While microwaves heat up food more quickly, most food tastes better when it is cooked in a conventional oven.
  • The number sign is the conventional symbol for labeling something measured in pounds.
  • Most of her books are conventional detective stories.
  • And at the end, the core of all of this is this desire to be free of the conventional sort of molds that she has been confined to.
    — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Think 2008 when the conventional in thought felt the world was ending.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • When Girls went off the air, in 2017, Williams had seemed the likeliest of the cast to achieve conventional star status.
    — Mattie Kahn, Town & Country, 5 Jan. 2023
  • None of the shows will be in locations that look like a conventional gallery space.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 5 Nov. 2024
  • In its early stages, Time Out of Mind could have been a far more conventional record.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The highly durable glass is oven-safe up to 752°F, which is well above what conventional home ovens can reach.
    — Women's Health, 21 Mar. 2023
  • There's also a bathhouse built on the back of the host's home with a conventional toilet and shower.
    — Cari Shane, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Jacob Walsh hit a conventional solo homer in the bottom of the sixth to give Oregon a 4-3 lead.
    — Michael Lev, The Arizona Republic, 28 May 2023
  • Most found the grind too hard going and the poverty too bleak, and within a few years returned to the city and more conventional lives.
    — Christine Ro, Longreads, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The duo are doing it through a smartphone app and conventional scales.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Henry didn’t fit the conventional view of what a running back should look like.
    — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 2 Dec. 2022
  • These tests are the more conventional CBC, or complete blood count.
    — Andrew Zaleski, Men's Health, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Alex Wright has taken a less conventional path to the NFL than most, but in his debut last week, the moment still wasn’t too big for him.
    — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2022
  • In fact, the arty posturing in La Chimera is rather conventional.
    — Armond White, National Review, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Green funds tend to do about as well as their conventional counterparts, at least for now.
    — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Bird, for instance, tries to counsel the younger men to settle down with a good woman and let the rhythms of a conventional life console them.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • At the 2022 Met Gala, the Spencer star eschewed conventional red carpet-wear and floor-length gowns for a cropped tuxedo with hot shorts from the French fashion house.
    — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 May 2023
  • Koenig, meanwhile, decided to go for a less conventional red pin-stripe suit with a black button-down and messy bangs to tie it in.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The book begins with what would be a conventional ending.
    — Danielle Amir Jackson, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2024
  • For a brief moment in the early '60s, when Cher was first introduced to the world, her look was fairly conventional.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 25 Dec. 2024
  • That's because most of our row crops are conventional and have that turning of the soil, which have nitrous oxide emissions and all that.
    — Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • Savoie decided to roll over the balance of the prepaid account to a conventional 529.
    — Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2022
  • In a conventional war, a U.S. carrier battle group could face scores of AS-4 missiles launched by dozens of bombers.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2023
  • This year, Russia has fired at least three Kinzhals with conventional warheads during the war against Ukraine.
    — Louis Mazzante, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Rotis made with conventional American whole wheat flour tend to be chewy, with barely any puff, and verge on bitter.
    — Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The brand promises a mattress that feels up to six degrees cooler than conventional models.
    — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 11 Mar. 2025

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