How to Use conduct in a Sentence

conduct

1 of 2 verb

• He conducts the choir with great skill and emotion.
• Our guide conducted us along the path.
• I like the way the company conducts business.
• Who will be conducting the meeting?
• Our guide slowly conducted us through the museum.
• The magazine conducted a survey.
• The committee is expected to conduct hearings in May.
• The police are conducting an investigation into last week's robbery.
• The goal is to conduct these reviews by the end of the year, or have a plan in place to implement them.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 23 Sep. 2020
• The steel balls that conduct the current should glide right over your skin.
  — Sarah Wu, Glamour, 6 Oct. 2020
• In the locked unit of the hospital, the nurses conducted drug tests and blood work.
  — Rebecca Chamaa, Glamour, 16 Sep. 2019
• Through the Soviets the people who did the work of the world would conduct their own affairs.
  — John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
• The city, for its part, used to conduct encampment cleanups.
  — Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2022
• Evan is a working dog and conducts himself by a strict set of rules.
  — Ellen Gormley, Cincinnati.com, 21 Jan. 2020
• But the Guardians had lost two straight to the White Sox, who are conducting a firesale and have turned out the lights for the season.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 30 July 2023
• The Mars helicopter will have 31 days to conduct five short test flights.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2021
• In all, some 300 people from across the world will have conducted studies on the ice.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2019
• Yes, people need to learn how to conduct themselves in the workplace.
  — Ellevate, Forbes, 15 June 2021
• The two platforms are former oil rigs, and the plan is to perch them in the ocean and conduct launches from far offshore.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 30 May 2021
• The lack of a speaker means the chamber cannot conduct business or swear in its members.
  — Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2023
• But the issue of which company will conduct the repairs is still up in the air.
  — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2020
• Back then, though, the country could conduct only a few thousand tests a day.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2020
• If lightning strikes the building, the lightning will be conducted around and into the ground.
  — Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
• The Reds and nearly all teams will conduct spring training 2.0 from their home ballparks.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 24 June 2020
• To conduct any business, at least 16 grand jurors must be present.
  — Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 1 Apr. 2023
• In the meantime, two sergeants were ordered to conduct wellness checks on him in his barracks room at night.
  — Meryl Kornfield, Kyle Rempfer, Steven Rich, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2023
• Or When Oprah conducted a sit-down, the pope of pop culture working it all out with them in a chat watched by millions?
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2024
• The research conducted by Earth05 will help to find ways to access frozen water or water buried deep in the ground, Dahrieh said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 21 Jan. 2024
• The picketing is being conducted in six-hour shifts; the plan is for union members to take on one shift per week.
  — Neal E. Boudette Brittany Greeson, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• Her body was found in a gulch after police conducted a search.
  — Maggie Wilson, ajc, 22 June 2018

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conduct

2 of 2 noun

• A panel investigated her conduct and she was subsequently fired.
• And how did Metaxas respond to the facts about Trump’s conduct?
  — David French, Time, 23 June 2020
• Most, if not all of the conduct alleged, is decades old.
  — Jim Derogatis, The New Yorker, 12 July 2019
• But the code of conduct only applies to the lower courts.
  — Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2023
• For the first time, the Supreme Court of the United States has adopted a formal code of conduct.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2023
• In the end, the conduct of his deputies continued to add to the taxpayers’ cost.
  — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
• They were utilized in the course of action, in the course of conduct, by the defendant.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 17 June 2022
• He was jailed for one year and discharged for bad conduct.
  — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Apr. 2021
• House Democrats have likened Trump’s conduct to bribery.
  — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 5 Dec. 2019
• The board has twice voted down a code of conduct, split between the factions.
  — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 26 Feb. 2020
• Trump’s conduct in office or if there is still room to fall.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 2 Feb. 2021
• The justices are not bound by the code of conduct that covers other U.S. judges.
  — Jonathan O'Connell and Ann E. Marimow, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2023
• He was given a bad-conduct discharge at the rank of private.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Freep.com, 22 Jan. 2020
• This time, the outcry was caused by a track’s content, rather than an artist’s conduct.
  — Tim Ingham, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2021
• The scrutiny prompted Senate Democrats to push for a code of conduct for the court.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 17 Nov. 2023
• The process went through the league's conduct committee and was approved by all of the ownership.
  — Clarence E. Hill Jr., star-telegram, 31 Oct. 2017
• Kaleb Allen Rackley was charged with two counts of deadly conduct of a firearm.
  — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Feb. 2023
• This conduct amounted to stalking, a felony crime, Boudin said.
  — Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 May 2022
• He was credited with 1,431 days for time served and good conduct.
  — Cathy Locke, sacbee, 1 Nov. 2017
• Also, look at the amount of violent conduct there have been.
  — SI.com, 13 July 2018
• Everyone in our newsroom must agree to live up to this code of conduct.
  — Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
• That's because schools will now be able to require students to meet their code of conduct.
  — Jeff Amy, ajc, 6 May 2021
• The state argues that the law governs a business owner's conduct, not their speech.
  — Theara Coleman, The Week, 7 Dec. 2022
• The code of conduct that applies to other federal judges doesn’t apply to the Supreme Court.
  — John Harwood, ProPublica, 1 Oct. 2023
• But his defense team denies that Snyder’s conduct rose to the level of any crime.
  — Ed White, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2022
• This conduct just affirms what many of us in this country have always feared.
  — Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com, 20 June 2020
• The deadly shooting of three hostages who waved a white flag added to concerns about Israel's wartime conduct.
  — Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Dec. 2023
• Fairfield refers to the company’s conduct as the online version of droit du seigneur.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
• Both Jon and Collin have denied that the 19-year-old engaged in violent conduct at any time.
  — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2023
• Like any other form of transportation, walking down the street comes with its own codes of conduct.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 2 May 2024