How to Use convey in a Sentence

convey

verb
  • The pipes convey water to the fields.
  • They conveyed the goods by ship.
  • He conveyed the estate to his son.
  • The singer was conveyed from her hotel to the airport by limousine.
  • The message conveyed a sense of urgency.
  • Most of these convey the message without using those actual three words.
    Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Some movies not only entertain and inspire but convey broader lessons.
    David R. Henderson, wsj.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Kiffin could also contend his tweet was to convey a positive message through social media and has nothing to do with a book that contains that message.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Symmetries convey elegance, and their presence can be obvious in hindsight.
    Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Miranda Lambert is known for conveying her stories in song, but with her first cookbook, Y’all Eat Yet?
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Both of these parents seem quite flawed – for instance, using a 9-year-old to convey a message regarding pulling her father into court shows poor judgment on the mother’s part.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Every aspect of the ship’s vision and execution was intended to convey a patriotic aura, starting with its two distinct red, white, and blue smokestacks.
    Carl Sferrazza Anthony, Town & Country, 2 May 2023
  • Humiliation as a punishment is conveyed with a powerful empathy, and what could have been a throwaway plot detail becomes a major emotional beat.
    Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Phoenix delivers an exceptional physical performance, with his face doing the job much of the time to convey Beau’s litany of fears and states of grief, horror and everything in between.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Even the trailer didn't quite convey what the show was.
    Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The message conveyed by both camps was that mum’s the word.
    Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Again, make sure those rights convey to the brand in the contract.
    Jim Tobin, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The best part of this offer is that the $200 bonus can convey win or lose.
    Xl Media, cleveland, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The wager doesn’t even have to win for the $200 in bet credits to convey.
    cleveland, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Miller added that Patrick didn’t have to convey his feelings about the process.
    Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The facility had a plan for the storm that was conveyed to us by the staff.
    Lisa J. Huriash, Sun-Sentinel.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Wasn’t that what drew him to the theater, to convey a message?
    John Leland, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The purpose of the core message is to convey your focus.
    Liana Zavo, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • What is the best and proper way to convey my apologies?
    Judith Martin, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
  • The star knows when to use her moment to convey a message.
    Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2018
  • This refund will convey in the form of a free bet token.
    Xl Media, cleveland, 21 Apr. 2022
  • If the patient sees changes that need to be made while wearing the temp teeth, that can be conveyed to the lab.
    Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 28 Feb. 2019
  • Anything longer than a few words was best conveyed in a call.
    Michael Zelenko, The Verge, 3 May 2018
  • Cline writes in a sleek, cool style that conveys both Alex’s naivete and her mirthless irony.
    Ron Charles, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
  • That whole trip, my daughters just conveyed their pride in me.
    Wendy Davis, Cosmopolitan, 10 Oct. 2017

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