conventionalize

Example Sentences

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"I thought it was only women who were privileged to change their mind," she began brightly; but Arkwright ignored her attempt to conventionalize the situation.

From Miss Billy — Married by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)

Yet she did not know; she did not want to conventionalize him; there was something rather fine about his ruggedness.

From Partners of the Out-Trail by Bindloss, Harold

I'll just make studies now, and this winter I'll conventionalize them and work them into patterns.

From The Harvester by Stratton-Porter, Gene

It was as if she had secretly determined—God knows from what pressure of lonely sorrow—to conventionalize her life, to present the world hereafter nothing but an even surface of unobtrusive conformity.

From The Book of Susan A Novel by Dodd, Lee Wilson

To the true romance the idea of marriage is at first repugnant, will not be thought about, for it seeks to square and conventionalize a great burst of the spirit.

From Hempfield A Novel by Grayson, David