conventional

In a sentence

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

• The house looks conventional from the street, and only the back reveals a glass wall the neighbors still argue about.

  Architecture

• The patient's recovery plan was entirely conventional: rest, fluids, and a follow-up visit, and it worked exactly as expected.

  Medicine

• The plot is conventional down to the last beat, which is why the strange lighting in the final act startles you.

  Movies

• The conventional method browns the onions first, but the chef adds them raw and lets the long simmer soften them.

  Cooking

• The coach started a conventional lineup of two guards, two forwards, and a center, then changed everything by the second quarter.

  Basketball

• A conventional mortgage asks for a deposit of a fifth, and buyers with less pay for insurance on top of the loan.

  Finance

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