How to Use conditional in a Sentence

conditional

1 of 2 adjective

• But that outcome would be conditional, and the plan sets no firm timetable.
  — Rebecca Rosman, NPR, 6 Oct. 2025
• He has been released on conditional bail.
  — Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
• The severe threat is conditional as the dryline remains out west.
  — Michael Autovino, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
• The homes would still be a conditional use, meaning the projects would still require a public hearing.
  — Idaho Statesman, 12 Sep. 2025
• He was questioned by police and released on conditional bail.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 11 Apr. 2026
• They are expected to take a vote on whether to approve or deny a conditional use permit.
  — Kenny Choi, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
• The project moved forward with conditional approval after the vote.
  — Terrance Friday, CBS News, 4 June 2026
• Or make conditional plans for a ramp, avoiding any plantings that would interfere.
  — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Feb. 2023
• The threat of storms is conditional and very dependent if the storms can break a capping inversion.
  — Lauren Bostwick, CBS News, 17 May 2026
• Each license holder also needs a conditional use permit from the city along with a state cannabis license.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
• These offers are conditional on other items and are not guaranteed, two of the people said.
  — Gabrielle Coppola, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2023
• Each license holder also needs a conditional-use permit from the city and a state cannabis license.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2026
• Why is a conditional use permit required?
  — Erik S. Hanley, jsonline.com, 24 Oct. 2025
• If a trigger fails, a webhook times out, or a conditional branch breaks, the system flags the failure and enqueues it.
  — Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 26 June 2026
• Respect must not be conditional.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 21 June 2026
• His prison sentence will be followed by 10 years of conditional release.
  — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 11 May 2026
• The tornado risk is conditional because storms may struggle to form due to a cap of warm air aloft, the weather service said.
  — Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2026
• Chatrie entered a conditional guilty plea, but the Supreme Court will hear his appeal next week.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2026
• Currently, scores of conditional licensees are still trying to get funding to open.
  — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2026
• The second and third years have conditional guarantees.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 17 Aug. 2025
• Geyser's path to conditional release was more difficult.
  — Jim Riccioli, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
• There is also a conditional option for a sixth year that could take the contract’s worth to more than $200 million.
  — Dallas News, 2 Dec. 2022
• Why is access delayed or conditional?
  — Bruce Helmer, Twin Cities, 14 Mar. 2026
• Children raised on conditional regard can become so afraid of mistakes that even minor setbacks can rattle their sense of self.
  — Jennifer Breheny Wallace, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2025
• He was sentenced to 15 years in prison, followed by 10 years of conditional release.
  — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 4 Sep. 2025
• He was sentenced to 15 years in prison, followed by 10 years of conditional release.
  — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 20 Dec. 2025
• But that relief was always conditional.
  — Sonny Alejandra, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
• The Lions traded a conditional sixth-round pick to the Jets for Mims and a seventh-rounder.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 20 July 2023
• Among many poverty scholars and activists, conditional cash transfers are seen as a step in the right direction, but only a small one.
  — Megan Greenwell, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2022
• About 2% were yellow (conditional pass) placards, and less than 1% were (closures).
  — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2025

conditional

2 of 2 noun

• The clause “if she speaks” is a conditional.
• But those are all conditionals, in various ways.
  — Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
• All of those conditionals, again, stem from the fact that these materials don't yet exist, at least not in quantity, and even 2030 might not be a long enough timeline to find and mass-produce them.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 11 Mar. 2018
• His second-guessing doesn’t stanch his inner torrent of bile, which continues through dinner with Irène and her mother, and goes on for another fifteen pages of emotional hypotheticals and conditionals.
  — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 July 2026
• Neuroscientists have already identified distinct brain activity patterns when programmers think about loops, conditionals or data structures.
  — Somdip Dey, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
• Unlike France and Canada, however, Starmer made British recognition of a Palestinian state conditional on Israel’s actions.
  — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
• Batuman writes; Nina’s reality remains untroubled by conditionals and subjunctives.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 20 Mar. 2017