social convention

Example Sentences

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For an in-person conversation, this response violates social convention, but for an online interaction, it is commonplace.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

It was teeming with big themes — identity, social convention, hubris and human attachment.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2023

But it most reflects the struggle of an artist, perhaps a self-serious one, to balance work with the demands of social convention.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2022

Which should make Dom Juan, a freethinker who spends most of the play discarding social convention as casually as you or I might wad a Kleenex, a hero.

From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2022

She smiles, but on her the expression looks compulsory, like she’s just adhering to a social convention.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth