CONVEYANCE in a Sentence

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172 example sentences for CONVEYANCE, such as:

1. I can't convey myself in words.
2. Please convey them on the tray to the buffet.
3. Colours like red convey a sense of energy and strength.
4. She did not wish to convey that they were all at fault.
5. Pipes convey hot water from the boiler to the radiators.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONVEYANCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
conveyance
 n.  act of conveying; tools of conveying, especially vehicle for transportation
Classic Sentence: (152 in 11 pages)
1  Peggotty had a basket of refreshments on her knee, which would have lasted us out handsomely, if we had been going to London by the same conveyance.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
2  I was at the coach office to take leave of her and see her go; and there was he, returning to Canterbury by the same conveyance.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
3  In the evening I started, by that conveyance, down the road I had traversed under so many vicissitudes.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. TEMPEST
4  So soon as I could at all collect my thoughts, I sent for Joram, and begged him to provide me a conveyance in which it could be got to London in the night.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 56. THE NEW WOUND, AND THE OLD
5  And hurrying his daughter in his turn, he conducted her from the lists, and by means of conveyance which he had provided, transported her safely to the house of the Rabbi Nathan.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
6  I was once acquainted with him, Aunt, and when I saw him today I thought I should prefer his van to any conveyance of a stranger.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
7  He had hired a conveyance and sent off his goods by two o'clock that day.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete
8  And here I must admit that I learned very little of drains and bells and modes of conveyance, and the like conveniences, during my time in this real future.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
9  And, sure enough, after his head had been bumped a few more times against the boot of the conveyance, Chichikov found himself bowling over softer ground.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
10  They were half clad, hungry, too weak to get away on foot and had no means of obtaining a conveyance.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XV
11  Three well-fed roans stood ready harnessed to a small conveyance with a leather hood.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV
12  With the old horse dead, their one mode of conveyance was gone, and there was neither time nor strength for walking the weary red miles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
13  Indeed, many a maimed and feeble soldier was compelled to drag his exhausted limbs in the rear of the columns, for the want of the necessary means of conveyance in that wilderness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
14  I jumped up, took my muff and umbrella, and hastened into the inn-passage: a man was standing by the open door, and in the lamp-lit street I dimly saw a one-horse conveyance.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
15  I was now myself looking out for the conveyance which was to take me to the Count.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  During the transit strike, as common commuters I have to use other conveyance.
2  All this information can be conveyed in a simple diagram.
3  The ambassador personally conveyed the president's message to the king.
4  I pass over the sort of slur conveyed in this suggestion on the character of my beloved; indeed, when you are far away, Janet, I'll try to forget it: I shall notice only its wisdom; which is such that I have made it my law of action.
5  I have tried to convey something of the flavour of the argument.
6  She did not wish to convey that they were all at fault.
7  Colours like red convey a sense of energy and strength.
8  Pipes convey hot water from the boiler to the radiators.
9  I can't convey myself in words.
10  We would like to take this opportunity to convey our heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims.
11  It is difficult to convey the gist of Reich's ideas simply.
12  He tried desperately to convey how urgent the situation was.
13  It is difficult to convey the sheer complexity of the situation.
14  Please convey them on the tray to the buffet.
15  The point I tried to convey is that users should have a choice - freedom to decide how and where their data resides and is used.