convention

How To Use convention 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
• By convention, this assent is always forthcoming.
• Eventually almost all postwar writers whose work departs significantly from convention have come to be labeled "postmodernist," a term that has definable meaning but that also has been used as an aid in this lashing-out, a way to further disparage such writers both by lumping them together indiscriminately and by identifying their work as just another participant in literary fashion. Postmodernism