Example Sentences

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Just be sure that tonally you are conveying excitement and curiosity, not skepticism.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 30, 2025

I'm watching something and my eyes are conveying images to me that my mind is processing, but on some basic level I didn't think that what I was seeing could actually be happening.

From Salon • May 24, 2022

“These companies are conveying that we’re not this weird little nerdy kid in the corner who’s doing sort-of shifty stuff,” said Beth Egan, an associate professor of advertising at Syracuse University.

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2022

If you are paraphrasing, you are shaping someone else’s words into your own words, but you are conveying the same meaning as the original speaker or writer.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

Where is the part in which thou feelest pain; and where hath this small-pox attacked thee?—So every one who saw them said, They are conveying a child smitten with the small-pox.

From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous