How to Use conversion in a Sentence

conversion

noun
  • Conversion to gas heating will continue over the next few years.
  • They have suggested conversion of the old school into apartments.
  • The company is undergoing a conversion to a new computer system.
  • He is thinking about conversion to Buddhism.
  • And his two-point conversion run in the first overtime forced NAZ to do the same thing.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 9 June 2023
  • Head coach Rick Jackson elected to go for the two-point conversion and the win.
    Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The four-year conversion took place at the yacht’s home shipyard of Damen Maaskant in the western Netherlands.
    Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Needing a 2-point conversion to tie the game, Raynor missed on a pass that was too high for Reagan Ealy in the back of the end zone.
    Mike Harley, arkansasonline.com, 24 Dec. 2023
  • This led to the nation’s first conversion of a railroad to a public trail.
    John Carpenter, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2023
  • In some ways, the words of Jesus at her conversion were prophetic.
    Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2023
  • And the project will also be a test case of whether office-to-housing conversions can scale.
    Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 23 May 2023
  • The all-electric Rolls and the painstaking conversion process are covered in Momoa’s new show, On the Roam.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Eagle Rock went for the win but a two-point conversion attempt failed.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • If all goes well, the EV conversion option might be available by the end of summer 2023.
    Matthew Skwarczek, Car and Driver, 29 May 2023
  • Britain and Canada have made the same conversion, at least as quickly.
    Ben Blatt, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Something was also just lost in the conversion, Satow says.
    Curbed, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Conner was trying to run around the edge on a 2-point conversion try that would have cut the Cardinals’ deficit to just three points.
    Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Also banned are conversion kits and parts that would allow such features to be added to guns.
    Jim Brunner, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 2023
  • In part because of the conversion from pine to avocado trees, the rainy season has shrunk from around six months to three.
    Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Porter added a two-point conversion pass to Jacob Henry.
    Lary Bump, Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • That was how the conversion of the Queen Mary — the world’s first and most prominent ocean-liner-to-hotel reuse — was supposed to go, too.
    Brittany Murray/medianews Group/long Beach Press-Telegram Via Getty Images, Curbed, 19 Jan. 2024
  • So why not guarantee that if that happens your team just needs a touchdown and a two-point conversion to tie?
    J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Others like Yas and OK are conversions from other types of vessels.
    Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The conversion try fell incomplete, leaving the Sailors (9-1) one point behind.
    Steve Galluzzo, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The second-year receiver’s third-and-5 conversion off a short pass from Tannehill stood out.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2024
  • In southern Arizona, where most people use the heat for only a couple of weeks a year, the conversion may not even require a subsidy to add up.
    IEEE Spectrum, 5 July 2023
  • In the first half, Utah was able to get a fourth-down conversion on a punt because two Florida players on the field were wearing the same jersey number.
    Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2023
  • After Blackstone made the conversion in 2019, the sticking point was its multi-class share structure.
    Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Afterward, when the Coyotes missed a conversion kick to end the game and Agoura’s student section charged the field, Novak was the center of attention.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Court records say the conversion was done solely to get the tax-exempt funding from the Arizona authority.
    Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2023

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