How to Use conceive in a Sentence

conceive

verb

• As conceived by the committee, the bill did not raise taxes.
• When the writer conceived this role, he had a specific actor in mind to play the part.
• It’s hard to conceive, but the 2020 race would have been even tougher.
  — Michael Smolens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Jan. 2018
• A lot has changed since the project was first conceived.
  — Daniel Borenstein, The Mercury News, 11 May 2024
• To me, 30 seemed like the right age to start trying to conceive.
  — Kaelyn Forde, Allure, 30 May 2018
• As if he'd been conceived in a lab based on parts of past greats.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 29 May 2018
• And when was 65 conceived in relation to the rest of your work?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2023
• That is, until the teens begin to doubt the premise of the game and the society that conceived it.
  — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 13 Feb. 2020
• The house was conceived to flow from room to room without any doors!
  — Christiane Lemieux, House Beautiful, 6 Mar. 2020
• The time away also gave you more time to conceive the new stage show.
  — Gary Graff, cleveland, 22 Dec. 2021
• But this is not the first strobe weapon ever conceived—not by a long shot.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2019
• Aviva and Sam try and try and try to conceive a child the old-fashioned way.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2022
• The baby is conceived from a donor egg and the sperm of one of the intended parents.
  — Avichai Scher, NBC News, 31 Mar. 2020
• Luther conceived of a church in some ways very close to Catholicism.
  — Marilynne Robinson, New Republic, 12 Dec. 2017
• In the process of trying to conceive, couples often use the word we.
  — Fiorella Valdesolo, WSJ, 8 June 2022
• The tiny baby sweater Okun knits helps her to conceive of new life after the death of two friends.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 9 Apr. 2018
• That’s where all my kids were conceived and that’s where they were grown, in my tummy.
  — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 4 July 2024
• And there is Rachel Rose, the young artist who conceived, directed, and shot it.
  — Edith Newhall, Philly.com, 9 May 2018
• To that end, the criminal purge wasn’t conceived of as the endpoint, but a small first step.
  — Ken Bensinger, Time, 14 June 2018
• The couple has been trying to conceive for more than six years.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 14 Sep. 2021
• The gravel plaza that Mayne conceived as a village square in fact is a stark, sketchy void.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 9 Feb. 2020
• If Brancusi conceived of the bird, Alexander Calder taught it to fly.
  — Sarah Douglas, ARTnews.com, 4 July 2024
• Ben was born after the couple tried for three years to conceive.
  — Ale Russian, PEOPLE.com, 13 July 2020
• Not a mass force, but a very effective and well-conceived force.
  — CBS News, 29 Jan. 2020
• So they were conceived to have woodchipper mouths that spit out the back.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2024
• It was conceived and shaped by the World Gold Council with the support of their members.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 2 July 2024
• The film and the cartoon series it is based on were even conceived with the goal of selling toys to children.
  — Patrick Cooley, cleveland.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• Each one is different, the bases conceived anew each year by the city and country that hosts the awards.
  — Meghan Herbst, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2024
• Jason Sudeikis had conceived it as a three-season show, but things changed.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
• The scale, the planning — everything was conceived to appear perfect in the image.
  — Sofia Celeste, WWD, 26 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Jan 2025