Example sentences for: conceive

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

  • Buñuel--born Catholic, even if he opted out later--confused the Incarnation, in which the Holy Ghost caused Mary to conceive Jesus, and the Immaculate Conception, which refers to the fact (or belief, if you will) that Mary was born without original sin, although otherwise by the normal biological process.

  • In turn, fertility clinic operators accuse Harris of "taking advantage of couples trying to conceive" and exploiting "desperate people ...

  • The magazine reports on the bawdy race to conceive the first baby of the year 2000.

  • It testifies to the government’s beginning to conceive of itself as an aggressive agent charged not only with winning a total war against states in insurrection but also with taking charge of the postbellum constitutional order that would be based on different premises from the social order of freedom and fear of government.

  • The source of the problem lies in the fact that there is no law forbidding ordinary mortals to bandy about terms like theory of relativity which only a few people in the world truly understand: to be sure, it is impossible to conceive of writing a definition for it that would fit into a dictionary's procrustean requirements.


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