convent

How To Use convent In A Sentence

• If we have spent several class periods introducing conventions of reasoned evidence in argumentative writing, we usually look for such features in student papers.
• Some of my remarks here are directed toward conventional scientists, who generally refrain from commenting critically on the wild ideas of a few of their colleagues because it is bad manners.
• People in no way adhere to regular social conventions online. Times, Sunday Times
• Marcus Aurelius's hair stands energetically up, a nimbus of corkscrewing locks, not a bit like the conventional signs for hair that plaster so many Roman marble crania. The Forever City
• He made a few conventional remarks about the weather.
• Squire Western, who, surrounded by piqueurs, and girt with the conventional cor de chasse of the Gallic sportsman, sings the following ariette, diversified with true Fielding
• It is an uncomfortable feeling to find in her sickness the conventions of beauty - boniness and pallor.
• The escapement is a conventional in-line Swiss lever type, but with all parts made from plastic, excepting the impulse pin. Boing Boing: November 5, 2006 - November 11, 2006 Archives
• There are various classes of Secular Abbots; some have both jurisdiction and the right to use the pontifical insignia; others have only the abbatical dignity without either jurisdiction or the right to pontificalia; while yet another class holds in certain cathedral churches the first dignity and the privilege of precedence in choir and in assemblies, by reason of some suppressed or destroyed conventual church now become the cathedral. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
• By convention, this assent is always forthcoming.