How to Use conduit in a Sentence

conduit

noun
  • Syria had long served as a key conduit for Iranian aid to Hezbollah.
    Sally Abou Aljoud, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Still, Hong Kong plays a vital role as a conduit for capital into and out of China.
    David Pierson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Caleb is the calm, happy conduit for everyone’s relationships.
    E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Again, Prince opined about his discomfort with setting that precedent because Cloudflare was merely a conduit for the flow of data.
    Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 12 Jan. 2021
  • So Great River’s transmission line would also likely be a conduit for some wind power, Weeda said.
    Mike Hughlett, Star Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
  • Now, London is no longer such an important conduit to or influence on Berlin, Paris and Brussels.
    William Mauldin, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2020
  • That’s because the high-powered beams create a kind of plasma conduit in the air—like seeding clouds for rain, the line of plasma draws lightning to it and even catalyzes the discharges so they can be controlled.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 26 Nov. 2020
  • The country has notably become an important source of natural gas for Europe, while also serving as a key conduit for Russian oil exports.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Rather, art is often a conduit for or a trace of the collective generosity, solidarity, and compassion that provide those in need with care, respite, and dignity.
    Michaëla De Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025
  • The vagus nerve is, in one way of thinking, the conduit of the mind.
    R. Douglas Fields, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
  • It’s sort of the conduit between yourself and the truth.
    al, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Breed had pitched the center as a conduit to longer-term care.
    Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Tom is like a conduit of Alice a lot of the time in her sense of humor.
    ELLE, 28 Mar. 2022
  • They are thought to form at the top of the conduit as magma gushes up it.
    Robin George Andrews, Wired, 6 June 2021
  • Smart TVs are poised to be the viewing conduit for the household of the future.
    Gavin Bridge, Variety, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Asha, the hero of the kingdom Rosas, is a conduit for empathy.
    Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The pipeline is a 20-inch-wide conduit that runs for miles through the Houston area.
    Juan A. Lozano, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
  • That dead body is the conduit that allows all those emotions to come in.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Pash has been a conduit between the NFL office and teams for years.
    BostonGlobe.com, 16 Oct. 2021
  • The distance or lapse between, then, is a kind of conduit to the next chronotope.
    Ross Kenneth Urken, Scientific American, 14 June 2021
  • One of the main reasons is that the underground wiring is faulty and not buried in conduit.
    Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Hallways are the conduit from room to room within your home.
    Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The carpal tunnel is a narrow conduit in the wrist made up of small bones and soft tissues.
    Benjamin Plackett, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2024
  • It’s been a conduit for the Norman, Okla., native to play closer to home.
    Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Poetry is a conduit that that opens our minds and hearts to the ancient wisdom of the wild.
    Deborah Calmeyer, Travel + Leisure, 16 Dec. 2023
  • There is a lake and a mountain and a red-striped lighthouse that seems to act as a conduit for the northern lights.
    Rick Jordan, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Nord Stream 1 running across the Baltic from Russia to Germany is the largest conduit.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2022
  • The Panama Canal is a conduit for 6% of the global maritime traffic.
    Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Natalie Harp, a devoted Trump aide, is poised to become the primary conduit for information to and from the president.
    Justin Porter, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Port of Long Beach media relations manager Lee Peterson confirmed that the port’s terminals, main road and rail conduits for cargo are all not impacted by the fires.
    Booth Moore, WWD, 8 Jan. 2025

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