Example Sentences

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Just produce that isn’t conventionally beautiful enough to command full price.

From Salon • May 22, 2026

In one sense, she’s dealing with a rights issue too painful to be aggressively aestheticized, but she’s also exploring a blood-soaked injustice that can’t be treated conventionally.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2026

Faslane - which sits on the Gare Loch - is also the home of Astute-class nuclear powered but conventionally armed attack submarines.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

The facts didn’t change, just the presentation: The revised version is clearer about the sequence of events, more precise in its wording, and more conventionally professional in tone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

I became a conventionally dutiful son, politely affectionate, cheerful enough, even—for reasons beyond choosing—my father’s favorite.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez