CONCEPTION in a Sentence

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173 example sentences for CONCEPTION, such as:
1. Sex identity is fixed at conception.
2. The two concepts are quite distinct.
3. I have no conception of what you mean.
4. He can't grasp the basic concepts of mathematics.
5. He's got a pretty strange conception of friendship.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of CONCEPTION
conception
 n.  beginning; forming of an idea; act of conceiving
Classic Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
1  Princess Mary's self-esteem was wounded by the fact that the arrival of a suitor agitated her, and still more so by both her companions' not having the least conception that it could be otherwise.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
2  He could not reconcile the charming impression he had of Natasha, whom he had known from a child, with this new conception of her baseness, folly, and cruelty.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIX
3  From this short interview with Pfuel, Prince Andrew, thanks to his Austerlitz experiences, was able to form a clear conception of the man.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER X
4  On the other question, how the battle of Borodino and the preceding battle of Shevardino were fought, there also exists a definite and well-known, but quite false, conception.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XIX
5  But it is hard to understand why military writers, and following them others, consider this flank march to be the profound conception of some one man who saved Russia and destroyed Napoleon.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER I
6  To a lackey no man can be great, for a lackey has his own conception of greatness.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER V
7  Science does not admit the conception of the ancients as to the direct participation of the Deity in human affairs, and therefore history ought to give other answers.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER I
8  Yet in most cases universal historians still employ the conception of power as a force that itself produces events, and treat it as their cause.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER II
9  The only conception that can explain the movement of the locomotive is that of a force commensurate with the movement observed.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER III
10  The only conception that can explain the movement of the peoples is that of some force commensurate with the whole movement of the peoples.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER III
11  Yet to supply this conception various historians take forces of different kinds, all of which are incommensurate with the movement observed.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER III
12  And the only such conception known to historians is that of power.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER III
13  To explain the conditions of that relationship we must first establish a conception of the expression of will, referring it to man and not to the Deity.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER V
14  This relation of the men who command to those they command is what constitutes the essence of the conception called power.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VI
15  Or in other words, the conception of a cause is inapplicable to the phenomena we are examining.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (104 in 7 pages)
1  I have no conception of what you mean.
2  The plan, brilliant in its conception, failed because of inadequate preparation.
3  He's got a pretty strange conception of friendship.
4  Sex identity is fixed at conception.
5  At the first conception of the work, he was consulted.
6  The other elegy is shorter and less striking in conception, but gives a similar impression of the importance assigned to Louis de.
7  A book on the face of it so quintessentially British - about a British colonel and his conception of duty and honour.
8  We might refer to these as the ancient and modern conceptions.
9  He can't grasp the basic concepts of mathematics.
10  The exercises let students discover math concepts on their own.
11  They can neither read nor write, nor can they comprehend such concepts.
12  The two concepts are quite distinct.
13  Such concepts are unworthy of educated people and refer to anthropomorphism which has been misunderstood.
14  Every researcher knows that a clear understanding of terms and concepts is necessary in order to communicate to other scientists and scholars.
15  Aristotle maintained that tragedy created a catharsis by purging the soul of base concepts.