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verb

conceive

CEFR B2

have the idea for

In a sentence

Six example sentences with conceive, each labelled with its topic.

  • The engineer who conceived the suspension bridge sketched its towers on a napkin during a delayed train journey.

    Architecture

  • She conceived the entire album during one winter, writing melodies on a borrowed keyboard in a friend's cold garage.

    Music

  • Two students conceived the puzzle game in a dormitory, then spent four years building the twelve rooms they imagined.

    Gaming

  • She conceived the delivery service while waiting forty minutes for a taxi, and the first driver was hired that month.

    Startups

  • The poet conceived the whole sequence on a single ferry crossing and spent the next decade writing it out.

    Literature

  • The physicist conceived the experiment during a lecture on something else entirely, sketching the apparatus in the margin.

    Science

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