Definition: 1. Following accepted customs and proprieties. 2. Conforming with accepted standards. 3. (weapons) using non-nuclear energy for propulsion or destruction. 4. Unimaginative and conformist.
Use 'conventional' in a sentence:
1. He borrowed a further $1.5 m from conventional sources to provide working capital.
2. Aside from the panels on the roof, Premier Gardens looks like a community of conventional homes.
3. Only five years after Steve Jobs’ death, smart-phones defeated conventional PCs in sales.
4. Delegates signed a treaty to reduce the armouries of conventional weapons in Europe.
5. It has turned conventional thinking about foreign aid on its hand.
6. This conventional practice flourishes in the United States.
7. It's not a hotel, in the conventional sense, but rather a whole village turned into a hotel.
8. Fundamentally, it was a conventional bomber, but it had a number of interesting innovations.
9. It became difficult to promote conventional ideas of excellence without being instantly accused of elitism.
10. And it has turned conventional thinking about foreign aid on its hand.
11. The conventional practice flourishes in the United States.
12. The conventional picture is that tens of thousands of slaves dragged stones on sledges.
13. This theory is widely derided by conventional scientists.
14. This extremist organization has shunned conventional politics.
15. A recent study also revealed the power of touch, in this case when it came to conventional mail.
16. The method is applicable to both metalized and conventional solid propellants.
17. You have to bake the cake for 30 minutes in a conventional oven.
18. The new fridges will have the same features and usable space as conventional units.
19. Alternative treatments can provide a useful back-up to conventional treatment.
20. The state, quality, or character of being conventional.
21. We must reduce the danger of war by controlling nuclear, chemical and conventional arms.
22. Plato has very specific, very conventional kinds of music in mind.
23. It is conventional to place the independent variable on the right-hand side of an equation.
24. It is simpler and quicker to use than conventional methods.
25. Only five years after Steve Jobs' death, smart-phones defeated conventional PCs in sales.
26. It has a very conventional form, so no more than two characters are involved in any one scene.
27. Months are a conventional subdivision of the year.
28. It was a conventional war.
29. She's very conventional in her views.
30. He had a simple, conventional deal and paid 20 percent down at settlement.
31. It is time to go beyond the shibboleth that conventional forces cannot deter.
32. He hates the wheeling and dealing associated with conventional political life.
33. It's taken a long time to break out of my own conventional training.
34. Grass-fed milk can fetch up to 2.5 times the price of conventional milk.
35. It supports a piece of conventional wisdom.
36. With conventional insurance policies it is difficult to work out accurately the replacement value of your possessions.
37. Britain must still keep the nuclear and conventional capacity to deal with all conceivable threats.
38. He abhors the wheeling-and-dealing associated with conventional political life.
39. We must reduce the danger of war by controlling nuclear, chemical, and conventional arms.
40. Visionaries are constantly fighting conventional wisdom because they see the world ahead in terms of what it can be.
41. It supports what we might almost think of as conventional wisdom.
42. Conventional wisdom has it that riots only ever happen in cities.
43. With a conventional repayment mortgage, the repayments consist of both capital and interest.
44. Such systems consume almost no conventional fuel at all.
45. I want to reiterate that our conventional weapons are superior.
46. These discs hold more than 400 times as much information as a conventional computer floppy disk.
47. Biofuels can be mixed with conventional fuels.
48. This remarkable technology provides far greater clarity than conventional x-rays.
49. He didn't let the conventional thinking of his day restrain his ideas.
50. She abandoned the linearity of the conventional novel.
51. Debbie then took over with some more conventional chest compressions until the ambulance arrived.
52. He will try his utmost to help them by means of his conventional medical knowledge.
