religious convention

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Then there are his gnomic utterances and the annual religious convention, the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, where Jobs regularly turns up to lay hands on his devotees.

From The Guardian • Jan. 25, 2011

Ordinarily as liberal as any U. S. churchmen, the Unitarians voted down the resolution after many a delegate had argued that Labor was not a proper concern of a religious convention.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was returning from a long and dreary religious convention held in an eastern town, where one, Mr. Lyman Beecher, had stirred up against him the foremost divines of New York and Boston.

From The Mormon Prophet by Dougall, Lily

He was one of the early artists to break through the old wall of religious convention, painting frankly mythological subjects, and he did them in an exquisite manner all his own.

From The Book of Art for Young People by Conway, Agnes Ethel

The task was one in which he was much hampered by a stringent religious convention, and the result is interesting, but not very happy.

From Latin Literature by Mackail, J. W. (John William)