Sentences with convention
con·ven·tion
C c - It's just a social convention that men don't wear skirts.
- We go offstage and come back for the convention of the encore.
- Many sports shows have recently adopted the conventions of the talk show.
- As a matter of convention, the oldest members speak first.
- ...the U.N. convention on climate change. [+ on]
- ...the annual convention of the Society of Professional Journalists. [+ of]
- They say school is just as important for teaching children social codes and conventions as for teaching math.
- The director's use of the usual romantic conventions made the film boring and predictable.
- A telecommunications convention
- A convention used by printers
- It's important to follow the conventions of punctuation in a paper for school.
- The award that by convention should have gone to the student with the highest grade went instead to the teacher's favorite.
- A copyright convention; the Geneva Convention
- Bohemian revolt against convention
- We go to the weeklong annual teachers' convention every summer.
- The convention newbie, he warns.
- The soliloquy was an Elizabethan dramatic convention
- The convention of showing north at the top of a map.
- The convention was held in Geneva.
- The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution
- The Vienna convention at the Vienna Congress (1814-15) standardized most of diplomatic conduct for generations