conventionalize

Example Sentences

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We do not separate the features as frequently as did that ancient people, but we conventionalize them as often.

From The Art of the Moving Picture by Lindsay, Vachel

Whichever group may be the oldest the art is there already advanced and the decoration has taken forms which must have occupied many kinds of workers to conventionalize from natural objects.”

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia

They're just going to disorganize me, conventionalize me completely.

From This Side of Paradise by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)

"I thought it was only women who were privileged to change their mind," she began brightly; but Arkwright ignored her attempt to conventionalize the situation.

From Miss Billy — Married by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)

It was as if she had secretly determined—God knows from what pressure of lonely sorrow—to conventionalize her life, to present the world hereafter nothing but an even surface of unobtrusive conformity.

From The Book of Susan A Novel by Dodd, Lee Wilson