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91 example sentences for CONVERT, such as:
1. They don't have access to a convertible currency.
2. We've converted from coal to gas central heating.
3. The hotel is going to be converted into a nursing home.
4. The house, a former barn, has been attractively converted.
5. He was apparently quite converted from his anarchist views.
2. We've converted from coal to gas central heating.
3. The hotel is going to be converted into a nursing home.
4. The house, a former barn, has been attractively converted.
5. He was apparently quite converted from his anarchist views.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of CONVERT
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convert
v. complete successfully
v. change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy
Classic Sentence: (72 in 5 pages)
1 To a less illuminated intelligence Mrs. Bart's counsels might have been dangerous; but Lily understood that beauty is only the raw material of conquest, and that to convert it into success other arts are required.
2 Erik talked of books; flamed like a recent convert to any faith.
3 Kennicott had begged her, in courtship days, to convert the town to beauty.
4 That lively cry upon this deadly calm might almost convert a better man.
5 Mary was a stewardess, and she tried to convert him on the way over.
6 For a week after he became a convert Jurgis continued to wander about all day, looking for work; until at last he met with a strange fortune.
7 The politic captain of the Canadas had deemed it wiser to submit to entertain a passive friend, than by any acts of ill-judged severity to convert him into an open enemy.
8 Nice people," he would say; "wanted to convert me, but couldn't come it, exactly.
9 Rumour reported that Drebber had managed to convert a large part of his property into money, and that he had departed a wealthy man, while his companion, Stangerson, was comparatively poor.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
10 Nor will I even vindicate myself at the expense of my oppressor, who stands there listening to the fictions and surmises which seem to convert the tyrant into the victim.
11 At first he thought the solution lay in electricity: convert the coal into electric power.
12 A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the doctrine of reincarnation.
13 Then, she was supported by an unnatural tension of the nerves, and by all the combative energy of her character, which enabled her to convert the scene into a kind of lurid triumph.
14 I endeavoured to convert what might have been between myself and Agnes, into a means of making me more self-denying, more resolved, more conscious of myself, and my defects and errors.
15 These epochs are peculiar and mislead the politicians who desire to convert them to profit.
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1 However, he suggests that this only be done if the convert is also willingly accepted into his position by the community.
2 The solar cell can convert the energy of sunlight into electric energy.
3 A poet is one who can convert ordinary words into a meaningful and effective piece of writing.
4 The first move has been in converting to a project-based resource allocation system rather than funding an overall area of activity.
5 But this new addition converts from a shoulder bag or hand bag to a knapsack as your mood suits.
6 Riligion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.
7 We've converted from coal to gas central heating.
8 Wye Lea is a collection of farm buildings that have been converted into an attractive complex.
9 The house, a former barn, has been attractively converted.
10 The hotel is going to be converted into a nursing home.
11 Sugar is converted into alcohol through the process of fermentation.
12 He was apparently quite converted from his anarchist views.
13 The brownstone had already endured one reincarnation: In the 1940's, it was converted into eight studio apartments.
14 One can enter a number in decimal, have it converted to binary to be stored.
15 They don't have access to a convertible currency.