Words similar to convention

Example sentences for: convention

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

For one thing, it would anger the teachers' unions, a powerful constituency in the Democratic Party: A full 525 of the 4,293 delegates at the party's Chicago convention belonged to either the NEA or the American Federation of Teachers.
Now, critics declare him a cerebral modernist who eschewed convention: He used "a nineteenth-century vocabulary but speaks with a twentieth-century voice" (Alex Ross, The New Yorker ). The revisionists rate him one of the century's great composers.
The weeping minister spoke in Largo, Fla., as he was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for swindling more than $4 million from the National Baptist Convention USA, the country's largest black denomination, while serving as its president.
The nomination will be ratified at the August 2000 convention in California.
A constitutional convention, she argues, would be required to enact an amendment, and it would give pro-choicers the chance to push through their own amendment protecting abortion.