Sentence examples for conveys longer from inspiring English sources

The imperfective phrasing conveys "longer lasting or more enduring" action or simply more of it, says Matlock, so the events seem more relevant in an upcoming election.

Make a glossary of terms, abbreviations and "emoticons" used to convey longer phrases, concepts and feelings in e-mail or other electronic text messages.

All of these functions are necessary at the synapse to provide sufficient proximity and contact between pre- and post-synaptic neurons, to bind secreted neurotransmitters and to convey longer-term effects of the synaptic activity.

A bachelor's degree on its own no longer conveys intelligence and capability.

Now 77, Mr. Caine no longer conveys the cold brutality he once did.

The present classification of the Tetrapoda and Reptilia no longer conveys the erroneous impression that amphibians were the intermediate step between fishes and reptiles, that reptiles arose from amphibians, or that birds arose from reptiles.

Possession of its secrets no longer conveys much of an edge.

It is in fact a horror-message — if you smoke, all kinds of horrible things are likely to happen to you — and it is the government's judgment, expressed in its brief, that the print warnings we are now accustomed to have become "stale" and no longer "convey [the] relevant information in an effective way," no longer, that is, convey the message.

Perhaps I no longer convey the same level of confidence I displayed when I was working.

Displays are lost when they no longer convey a selective advantage to the individuals using them; that is, when they are no longer effective in promoting the behaviour that seeks to maximize gene survival in the next generation.

Also I have no hangups about my body, because I don't really care what he thinks (although he is very kind!)." The memoirist Diana Athill writes, in Somewhere Towards the End, of her sadness that making love with her "dear habitual companion" had staled: "Familiarity had made the touch of his hand feel so much like the touch of my own hand that it no longer conveyed a thrill".