convention

In a sentence

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

• Delegates from every county filled the hall for a convention that ran four days and ended with a floor vote.

  Politics

• Thousands queued outside the arena for a games convention where studios demo unreleased titles on hundreds of rented screens.

  Gaming

• Cardiologists flew in from twelve countries for the annual convention, where three thousand attendees packed the opening lecture hall.

  Medicine

• The developer convention drew twenty thousand programmers, and the keynote hall filled an hour before the doors opened.

  Technology

• Fans in costume packed the convention floor for three days, waiting hours for a glimpse of the cast on the main stage.

  Movies

• Every spring the industry holds a convention in the desert, where thousands of buyers sign next year's orders in one week.

  Business

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