convention
Example Sentences
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“She must have felt so much shame,” she said, describing her own experience of being a divorced woman in this town — where custom and convention are supreme, and purposeful familial destruction is abhorrent.
From Los Angeles Times
The installation, unveiled on the Phoenix convention floor, recreated the site of Kirk’s death and quickly became a focal point for attendees, some of whom posed for photos and selfies inside the exhibit.
From Salon
After spending much of the year racing to remake civilization, they packed a giant convention center and marveled at displays flaunting the latest AI research between bites of Auntie Anne’s pretzels.
“With our show, the reason people liked it was the humor and the fact that it was colorful and upbeat and it had heroes in it,” he said, chatting at a comic convention in Anaheim.
From Los Angeles Times
Part hobo, part insult comic, part performance artist, Diogenes flaunted his disregard for convention in ways that scandalized the bourgeoisie of Athens and, later, Corinth, after his banishment from Sinope became permanent.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
