How to Use convention in a Sentence
convention
noun
- Many sports shows have recently adopted the conventions of the talk show.
- The award that by convention should have gone to the student with the highest grade went instead to the teacher's favorite.
- He bought some new books at the science fiction convention.
- As a matter of convention, the oldest members speak first.
- The director's use of the usual romantic conventions made the film boring and predictable.
- It's important to follow the conventions of punctuation in a paper for school.
- They say school is just as important for teaching children social codes and conventions as for teaching math.
- We go to the weeklong annual teachers' convention every summer.
- The Democratic National Convention will meet next week to announce their party's candidate for president.
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In response, the Five Tribes held a convention to form an Indian state.
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Thomas P. Crocker,
The New Republic,
8 Nov. 2022
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What really exists is space-time, and slicing it up into space and time is merely a useful human convention.
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Sean Carroll,
Quanta Magazine,
14 Nov. 2022
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Back-to-back losing seasons could have swayed the Chicago Cubs from bringing back their annual convention.
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Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Nov. 2022
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Then, at a convention later that year, Wells bumped into an editor named Lee Harris.
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Meghan Herbst,
WIRED,
26 Nov. 2024
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In contrast to convention, Philadelphia’s best opportunities to win have come when their two best pitchers were not on the mound.
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Lindsey Adler,
WSJ,
4 Nov. 2022
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On the other hand, the filmmaker also makes effective use of some timeworn narrative conventions to build and sustain suspense.
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Joe Leydon,
Variety,
22 Nov. 2024
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There were plans for a $300 million renovation of the city’s convention center and basketball arena.
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Campbell Robertson,
New York Times,
30 Oct. 2022
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The main floor of the convention is at the Fontainebleau.
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Glenn Garvin,
miamiherald,
17 Jan. 2018
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Of course, one of the jobs of a convention is to sell the candidate.
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Bill Goodykoontz,
The Arizona Republic,
29 Aug. 2020
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Said 'many, many states' would like to have the convention.
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Paul Bedard,
Washington Examiner,
10 June 2020
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At the convention, the cast and crew for the show spoke about how the show draws parallels with the present day.
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Andrew Liptak,
The Verge,
20 July 2019
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The weeks the convention were supposed to happen were the store’s biggest sales weeks of the year.
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Dorany Pineda Staff Writer,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Nov. 2021
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The new name for the convention center has yet to be announced.
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Jc Reindl,
Detroit Free Press,
21 June 2019
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But there's much more to choose from outside the doors of the convention center.
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Susan Selasky,
Detroit Free Press,
14 Sep. 2022
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Tickets can be purchased up to the last day of the convention.
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Charles Infosino,
The Enquirer,
15 Sep. 2020
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Tickets for all three days of the convention start at $66.
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The Indianapolis Star,
12 Mar. 2024
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The event will be held from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the resort’s convention center.
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Katie Rice,
orlandosentinel.com,
15 Sep. 2021
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The two-year countdown to the convention has now begun.
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Bill Glauber,
USA TODAY,
6 Aug. 2022
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So, even if a deal is reached on July 12, it won’t be done in time for the convention.
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Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 July 2023
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At the convention, Democrats are working to reclaim the flip side of weird.
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Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
22 Aug. 2024
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If the twists are too easily visible and the revelations a hair too formulaic, however, James still treats the genre and its conventions with respect.
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Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Nov. 2024
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