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Example sentences for: conceit

How can you use “conceit” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Puffed-up with conceit, he takes in a new piece of evidence by raising his eyebrows, expelling a "hmmm," and spinning around to announce his latest theory to locals who regard him with a mixture of awe and embarrassment.
The movie's Septimus never seems more than a literary conceit, and only in his fleeting moments of sanity does Graves acquire a mordant poignancy.
That is ironic, of course, but the joke is not on the New Republic . It's on the conceit of fact checking in general.
But many also say the conceit of the episode--that a film crew is documenting life in an emergency room--was a cheap ploy to cover up gaffes.
By contrast, recycling the conceit of Swift's Modest Proposal (to eat children) would be embarrassment-free.