Sentence examples for conventional English from inspiring English sources

Selvon in fact began writing the book in conventional English.

Actually Crockett engaged in several business ventures and delivered his speeches in fairly conventional English.

Married, she became reinvented as Kim, a conventional English wife and mother whose one act of independence was her refusal to give up working as a GP.

And from Williams he moved on to the beat generation – an unexpected step at that time for a career academic in a conventional English department.

Like many who are steeped in but structurally excluded from conventional English and its canon, Kelley had doubts about its capacity to adequately express African-American life.

During the next 50 years, she took off many times, sometimes impetuously, always for adventure beyond the bounds of conventional English life.

Unlike more conventional English-language media outlets, he bills most candidates for his post-endorsement services (albeit more modestly than most campaign consultants in New York).

The way that John McCain has had a series of specious commercials and campaign events in which either he or his running-mate say things that aren't spin or stretching the truth, but by any conventional English-language definition: lies, things that are false and are said knowing that they are false.

More likely, the elite of that world will opt for something like conventional highbrow English".

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(2a) implicates (2c) because it is conventional for English speakers to use "therefore" with a certain meaning, of which the implicature is a part.