How to Use conclave in a Sentence

conclave

noun

• Bergoglio was my guess to emerge from the conclave as pope.
  — Jason Horowitz, Vogue, 16 July 2018
• The conclave kicked off Sunday and runs for about a week.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2022
• The white smoke, of course, is a tip of the cap to a papal conclave in which a new pope has been chosen.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 9 Dec. 2019
• Now the world gathers once again for a great conclave of Vermeer.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023
• In the coming days there will be no conclave, no intrigue, no white smoke.
  — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2022
• In the coming days, there will be no conclave, no intrigue, no white smoke.
  — Chico Harlan, Stefano Pitrelli, Marisa Iati, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Dec. 2022
• The new one was announced last month during a twice-a-decade conclave in Beijing.
  — Karen Hao, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• Shooting the five large conclave voting scenes was not easy.
  — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 23 Oct. 2024
• His would be one of the few world-changing conclaves in history that would spring no press leaks.
  — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 7 Feb. 2024
• Few expect a successor to emerge at the twice-per-decade conclave.
  — Eva Dou, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
• Just as the conclave began, Glasgow’s garbage workers went on strike, and rubbish piled up in the streets.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2021
• At these conclaves, the boys played basketball and baseball in the backyard.
  — Andrea Bernstein, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2016
• Outside, smog drifted in and out of the low plain, while Chinese media buried all mention of the conclave.
  — Jillian Dunham, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• Three of the 13 men are 80 or over and thus ineligible to vote in any conclave to elect a new pontiff.
  — Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2019
• For young and ambitious priests of that era — Father Ratzinger was 35 — the conclave was crucial.
  — Rachel Donadio, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
• When a pope dies, cardinals come from around the world to gather to mourn, but also to vote in the conclave that elects his successor.
  — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
• At least 18 of the 21 selected will be eligible to participate in the conclave to choose the next pope when the time comes.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 9 July 2023
• The conclave happens when the group has to be sequestered to make the pick, and people forced to be together is always a great set up for drama.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024
• That shift has only added to the unpredictability that figures to come with the next conclave.
  — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 7 June 2022
• Three of the 21 new cardinals are 80 or older and thus not eligible to vote in a conclave.
  — Frances D'emilio, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2023
• Eighteen of the 21 new cardinals are younger than 80 and would be eligible to vote in a conclave.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 9 July 2023
• But until this year, the process was like a papal conclave: solemn, secretive and far from public view.
  — Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2020
• Do cardinals who gather for a conclave sleep on the premises?
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2024
• The committee had raised the rate at 12 meetings in a row before the September conclave, lifting the Selic from a record low of 2%.
  — Paulo Trevisani, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2022
• Shen Chunyao, a top party official, said after a conclave last month , as the protests in Hong Kong raged.
  — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2019
• At least 16 of the new cardinals will be younger than 80 and thus eligible to vote for the next pontiff in secret conclave.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2022
• This story was picked up by other outlets, causing The Boston Globe to send a team of reporters to cover the conclave.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 June 2022
• Her whole life, she’d been hidden away to avoid being forced into the conclave for Commander.
  — Dalene Rovenstine, EW.com, 2 July 2020
• But once the conclave starts, so do the machinations, power grabs — and revelations that could rattle the Catholic Church.
  — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 23 Oct. 2024
• Despite being unsure of his faith, the poor man has been saddled by the just-deceased pope with the responsibility of managing the conclave of red-robed eminences who’ll vote on a successor.
  — Tom Gliatto, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024