convention

How To Use convention In A Sentence

• People in no way adhere to regular social conventions online. Times, Sunday Times
• 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.
• He made a few conventional remarks about the weather.
• 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
• 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
• Conventional boilers heat up a store of water using a hot water cylinder in the airing cupboard and a header tank somewhere high - usually the loft.
• The convention plucked him from the pastorate to head the foreign mission board.
• Thus was born a lifelong interest in building houses by unconventional means, normally on his own or with one or two helpers. Times, Sunday Times