How to Use conceit in a Sentence

conceit

noun

• His conceit has earned him many enemies.
• The central conceit of Run and Hide is a correction of the record.
  — Rafia Zakaria, The New Republic, 5 May 2022
• The show’s conceit is that the group will have to find a way to build a new human society in six weeks.
  — Eva Holland, Outside Online, 2 Nov. 2022
• And one of the central things to the conceit of the novel is that some days are more eventful than others.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 8 Feb. 2024
• Ndlovu has a gift for clever conceits and knife-twist endings.
  — Charlie Jane Anders, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
• The conceit of the show is bringing this old school band to the modern age and way of making music.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2023
• The conceit is a story-within-a-story, as the cast plays a troupe of actors and stage crew for a play.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 4 Aug. 2023
• And the conceit of Strangers on a Train could be set beautifully in the high-school ecosystem.
  — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 16 Sep. 2022
• The true conceit of the Post Racial Myth is one that has been exemplified time and time again in the years since the release of this film.
  — Gerald Nesmith, Essence, 1 Sep. 2023
• It was designed to show how ridiculous the conceit was and to prod antisemites.
  — Marc Maron, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
• Okay, so the conceit is that there are multiple White Lotus hotels, and this one is off the coast of Italy.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2022
• Polley’s conceit is that Autje is telling the story of the meeting to the unborn child of Ona, played by Rooney Mara.
  — Esther Zuckerman, Time, 14 Sep. 2022
• One of the book’s principal conceits is that these case studies are part of a larger trend.
  — Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2023
• Christie’s entire conceit is a fiction, a figment, a mirage — that is, a lie.
  — Varad Mehta, Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2023
• There’s an à-la-carte menu, and a shop-the-pantry conceit that harks back to the whole dinner-in-a-deli vibe of its Roman progenitor.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2023
• For old-school, high-church surfers, the search for a hundred-foot wave can seem like a marketing conceit, not to mention a death trap.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• To Gromyko, such conceit must have seemed breathtaking.
  — Benn Steil, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2024
• But within that simple conceit is a world of delicious ways to achieve it.
  — Ben Mimscooking Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2023
• The conceit is saved from vainglory by the gravity Cage brings to the performance.
  — Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
• Seemingly lost in all of Khan’s conceit is that big signals victory for the rest of us.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• That conceit, fueled by the addition of the overkill third wild-card berth, has been propping up a season on its last legs.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2022
• But, for hundreds of years, the felony-murder doctrine has muddled this conceit.
  — Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• Such a conceit—that emotions can be as stylized as clothes—is not a fault so much as a sly strategy.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 June 2023
• The conceit worked so well because Pumpkins was an anomaly—a goof among discernibly scary scenes.
  — Amanda Wicks, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2022
• And that conceit remained unchanged for the first seven seasons.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 Nov. 2022
• The conceit is simple: Friesen listens to Infowars broadcasts and then breaks them down for the benefit of Holmes, who doesn’t.
  — Emma Dibdin, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
• At their best, his movies are genuinely clever in conceit and construct.
  — WIRED, 24 July 2023
• The book is, in other words, a tale of drift in the gig economy—but one you get coaxed into reading by the novelty of its conceit.
  — Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
• Johnson took this conceit a step further by writing a cameo for Williams in which no one shows up for the training session.
  — Sam Reed, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2022
• But some of the conceits behind that were very interesting, like the British aristocracy being criminal in the essence of controlling land and being able to pass that down for generations.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024