How to Use conclave in a Sentence

conclave

noun

• What times should viewers look for smoke during the conclave?
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 1 May 2025
• In the coming days there will be no conclave, no intrigue, no white smoke.
  — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2022
• In the coming days, there will be no conclave, no intrigue, no white smoke.
  — Chico Harlan, Stefano Pitrelli, Marisa Iati, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Dec. 2022
• Now the world gathers once again for a great conclave of Vermeer.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023
• Few expect a successor to emerge at the twice-per-decade conclave.
  — Eva Dou, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
• The white smoke, of course, is a tip of the cap to a papal conclave in which a new pope has been chosen.
  — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 9 Dec. 2019
• Pope Leo was elected in the conclave that followed.
  — Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
• His would be one of the few world-changing conclaves in history that would spring no press leaks.
  — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 7 Feb. 2024
• There is no set time for how long a conclave may last, but the last two concluded within two days.
  — Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
• No voter can dine out since the conclave is secluded from the outside world.
  — Katie Primm, NBC news, 9 May 2025
• In the film’s last shot, the shuttered conclave over, a priest cracks a window and looks out at a courtyard.
  — Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
• Ralph Fiennes stars as the cardinal in charge of a conclave to elect a new pope.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
• The process is called a conclave, and is steeped in ritual and tradition.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
• The new one was announced last month during a twice-a-decade conclave in Beijing.
  — Karen Hao, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• Do cardinals who gather for a conclave sleep on the premises?
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2024
• At these conclaves, the boys played basketball and baseball in the backyard.
  — Andrea Bernstein, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2016
• The conclave comes at a critical time for Beijing.
  — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2025
• His death, at 88, set the stage for the conclave that elected Leo a few weeks later.
  — ABC News, 21 Apr. 2026
• Watching this film is as close as most travelers will ever get to the papal conclave.
  — Caroline Reilly, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2024
• Pope Leo was elected in a conclave of cardinals in May.
  — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
• Both men are under 80 years old and thus eligible to cast votes in the conclave.
  — Howard Chua-Eoan, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2025
• The burial of a pope must precede a conclave, according to church doctrine.
  — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
• Just before the conclave, Robert Prevost had found a moment to drop a line to a friend.
  — Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 14 Mar. 2026
• Just as the conclave began, Glasgow’s garbage workers went on strike, and rubbish piled up in the streets.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2021
• The first votes for electing a new pope will take place after the cardinals come together for the conclave.
  — Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 21 Apr. 2025
• That shift has only added to the unpredictability that figures to come with the next conclave.
  — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 7 June 2022
• Outside, smog drifted in and out of the low plain, while Chinese media buried all mention of the conclave.
  — Jillian Dunham, Longreads, 28 Jan. 2020
• When a pope dies, cardinals come from around the world to gather to mourn, but also to vote in the conclave that elects his successor.
  — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
• The conclave happens when the group has to be sequestered to make the pick, and people forced to be together is always a great set up for drama.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024
• Three of the 13 men are 80 or over and thus ineligible to vote in any conclave to elect a new pontiff.
  — Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2019