Example sentences for: conventions

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

  • Above the ground floor shops is a light, open space designed for conventions and exhibitions.

  • Spies’ influence revolutionized painting in Bali, which had previously been one of the least inventive of Bali’s arts, bound by repetitive conventions.

  • Jesse Helms, R-N.C., persuading a recalcitrant Congress to ratify the chemical weapons conventions, and pushing for NATO expansion.

  • He tried in The Day of the Locust (1939), with its more or less realistic story of Hollywood down and outs, but mostly he succeeded in placing a veneer of hard-boiled literary conventions over his manias about women and sex, which makes him seem just as crazy as in his other books, but less aware of it, therefore less entertaining.

  • 4"Accounting principles" are those conventions, rules, and procedures necessary to define acceptable accounting practice at a particular time.


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