CONSERVATIVE in a Sentence
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60 example sentences for CONSERVATIVE, such as:
1. I'm afraid you'll think I'm conservative.
2. He's very conservative in his attitude to women.
3. I assume her politics must be fairly conservative.
4. She takes a basically conservative view of society.
5. Old people are usually more conservative than young people.
2. He's very conservative in his attitude to women.
3. I assume her politics must be fairly conservative.
4. She takes a basically conservative view of society.
5. Old people are usually more conservative than young people.
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Meanings and Examples of CONSERVATIVE
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conservative
a. conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
a. avoiding excess
Classic Sentence:
1 At least, it seemed worse to Frank and the conservative circles in which he moved.
2 They were sound and conservative in politics, but they talked about motor cars and pump-guns and heaven only knew what new-fangled fads.
3 I'm afraid you'll think I'm conservative.
4 With all their larger vision and deeper sensibility, these men have usually been conservative, careful leaders.
5 Nowhere, I think, could a more delightful location have been chosen for this unique educational experiment, which has attracted the attention and won the support even of conservative philanthropists in all sections of the country.
6 I remember being surprised by his graceful, conservative fox-trot--I had never seen him dance before.
7 They opposed, and sometimes with rare intelligence, conservative liberalism to the liberalism which demolishes.
8 She had the neophyte's shock of discovery that, outside of tracts, conservatives do not tremble and find no answer when an iconoclast turns on them, but retort with agility and confusing statistics.
9 The South interpreted it in different ways: the radicals received it as a complete surrender of the demand for civil and political equality; the conservatives, as a generously conceived working basis for mutual understanding.
10 Back of this more formal religion, the Church often stands as a real conserver of morals, a strengthener of family life, and the final authority on what is Good and Right.
11 The physical organization, its decay, the indestructibility of matter, the law of the conservation of energy, evolution, were the words which usurped the place of his old belief.
12 His passion for Eustacia had been a sort of conserve of his whole life, and he had nothing more of that supreme quality left to bestow.
Example Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1 It is essentially a narrow and conservative approach to child care.
2 I assume her politics must be fairly conservative.
3 He's very conservative in his attitude to women.
4 Old people are usually more conservative than young people.
5 She takes a basically conservative view of society.
6 Children are very conservative where food is concerned, they are very loath to try anything out of the ordinary.
7 A conservative coalition of Democrat and Republican congressmen developed which could delay further reforms, and sometimes block them altogether.
8 The researchers made a conservative guess at the population of Tokyo.
9 Mr Williams is a conservative who advocates fewer government controls on business.
10 Gilmore had to perform the difficult balancing act of attracting moderate voters without losing his conservative base.
11 The conservative old guard had re-established its political supremacy.
12 The professor's a radical in politics but a conservative dresser.
13 The girl was well dressed, as usual, though in a more conservative style.
14 Older people tend to be quite conservative and a bit suspicious of any supposed advances.
15 Here in the heart of conservative Texas, young criminals, murderers and thugs are forced to confront military style discipline, a traditional view of right and wrong.