"convention" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "We're not going to let convention dictate our strategy."
- After the death of poor Charles Hamilton, her first husband, convention dictated that she dress in widow's weeds.
- Life is not lived; literary fashion displays it, old-fangled conventions dictate it.
- It is unknown why he chose the spelling Belemnotheutis rather than what common convention would have dictated - Belemnoteuthis.
- Conway seeks to explain how conventions of gender have historically dictated the archetypes that men and women summon when writing their lives.
- Because convention dictates some kind of appearance by the designer, the audience kept up the applause until hundreds of well-manicured hands began to chafe.
- Although every map element serves some purpose, convention only dictates inclusion of some elements, while others are considered optional.
- For home and away jerseys in North America, historical convention has often dictated the colors used by most teams in a given league.
- As long as you're wearing that veil, convention dictates that you are not really here.
- The women are behaving as the social conventions dictate, attending to the kitchen and housework, acting modestly and looking pretty.
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