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

In the case of Stanley Fish, those are "my convictions and commitments."
As a Quaker, she also held strong pacifist convictions, and she was the only foreigner invited to the wedding of the crown prince to Michiko Shoda in April 1959.
Of more than 700 Danish sex offenders castrated after multiple convictions, relapse rates dropped from between 17 percent and 50 percent to just 2 percent.
But otherwise, so long as his religious convictions, no matter how weak or strong they may be, are not geared toward the outright oppression or destruction/neglect of those who fail to share his views, they should not matter, and warrant no scrutiny.
Is it just me, or do the non-labeling youth lack the courage of their convictions?