Sentence examples for conventional definition from inspiring English sources

Because some of it resists such a conventional definition.

Some works aren't drawings at all, by any conventional definition.

"The Dead," which features Irish parlor songs, and "Swing!," a dance revue, also defy the conventional definition.

But also, to argue for excluding nonprogressives would be to cop to a rather more conventional definition of "bohemian".

For example, the conventional definition of modal parameters is invalid for LTV systems.

$20. THE hapless, nameless narrator of "My Happy Life," Lydia Millet's strange, slender and incandescent third novel, has not enjoyed, by any conventional definition, a happy life.

And yet there is no denying that the military overthrew President Morsi in a coup, according to any conventional definition of the term.

When Honda took on leaders in the motorcycle industry, for example, it began with products that were just outside the conventional definition of the leaders' product-market domains.

And, for that matter, is the conventional definition of good art too narrow to account for the merits of such works as these?

"Technology has rendered the conventional definition of personally identifiable information obsolete," said Maneesha Mithal, associate director of the Federal Trade Commission's privacy division.

GOLD touched $1541 an ounce today, and having fallen 18% from its high, is nearing the conventional definition of a bear market (a 20% decline).