How to Use conduct in a Sentence

conduct

1 of 2 verb
  • He conducts the choir with great skill and emotion.
  • Our guide conducted us along the path.
  • I like the way the company conducts business.
  • Who will be conducting the meeting?
  • Our guide slowly conducted us through the museum.
  • The magazine conducted a survey.
  • The committee is expected to conduct hearings in May.
  • The police are conducting an investigation into last week's robbery.
  • The goal is to conduct these reviews by the end of the year, or have a plan in place to implement them.
    Hanna Ziady, CNN, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The steel balls that conduct the current should glide right over your skin.
    Sarah Wu, Glamour, 6 Oct. 2020
  • In the locked unit of the hospital, the nurses conducted drug tests and blood work.
    Rebecca Chamaa, Glamour, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Through the Soviets the people who did the work of the world would conduct their own affairs.
    John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The city, for its part, used to conduct encampment cleanups.
    Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Evan is a working dog and conducts himself by a strict set of rules.
    Ellen Gormley, Cincinnati.com, 21 Jan. 2020
  • But the Guardians had lost two straight to the White Sox, who are conducting a firesale and have turned out the lights for the season.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 30 July 2023
  • The Mars helicopter will have 31 days to conduct five short test flights.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2021
  • In all, some 300 people from across the world will have conducted studies on the ice.
    Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Yes, people need to learn how to conduct themselves in the workplace.
    Ellevate, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • The two platforms are former oil rigs, and the plan is to perch them in the ocean and conduct launches from far offshore.
    Mike Wehner, BGR, 30 May 2021
  • The lack of a speaker means the chamber cannot conduct business or swear in its members.
    Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2023
  • But the issue of which company will conduct the repairs is still up in the air.
    Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Back then, though, the country could conduct only a few thousand tests a day.
    Mark Landler, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2020
  • If lightning strikes the building, the lightning will be conducted around and into the ground.
    Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The Reds and nearly all teams will conduct spring training 2.0 from their home ballparks.
    Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 24 June 2020
  • To conduct any business, at least 16 grand jurors must be present.
    Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 1 Apr. 2023
  • In the meantime, two sergeants were ordered to conduct wellness checks on him in his barracks room at night.
    Meryl Kornfield, Kyle Rempfer, Steven Rich, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2023
  • Or When Oprah conducted a sit-down, the pope of pop culture working it all out with them in a chat watched by millions?
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The research conducted by Earth05 will help to find ways to access frozen water or water buried deep in the ground, Dahrieh said.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 21 Jan. 2024
  • For singer Tyla, a great makeup look starts by lighting a fragrant candle, saying a prayer, and conducting a quick sound bath.
    Jenny Berg, Vogue, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Crews were conducting emergency work there, and there was no estimate for when the work will be completed, Caltrans announced on X, formerly known as Twitter.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 3 Apr. 2024
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conduct

2 of 2 noun
  • A panel investigated her conduct and she was subsequently fired.
  • And how did Metaxas respond to the facts about Trump’s conduct?
    David French, Time, 23 June 2020
  • Most, if not all of the conduct alleged, is decades old.
    Jim Derogatis, The New Yorker, 12 July 2019
  • But the code of conduct only applies to the lower courts.
    Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2023
  • For the first time, the Supreme Court of the United States has adopted a formal code of conduct.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2023
  • In the end, the conduct of his deputies continued to add to the taxpayers’ cost.
    Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
  • They were utilized in the course of action, in the course of conduct, by the defendant.
    Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 17 June 2022
  • He was jailed for one year and discharged for bad conduct.
    Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Apr. 2021
  • House Democrats have likened Trump’s conduct to bribery.
    Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The board has twice voted down a code of conduct, split between the factions.
    David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Trump’s conduct in office or if there is still room to fall.
    W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 2 Feb. 2021
  • The justices are not bound by the code of conduct that covers other U.S. judges.
    Jonathan O'Connell and Ann E. Marimow, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • He was given a bad-conduct discharge at the rank of private.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Freep.com, 22 Jan. 2020
  • This time, the outcry was caused by a track’s content, rather than an artist’s conduct.
    Tim Ingham, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The scrutiny prompted Senate Democrats to push for a code of conduct for the court.
    Melissa Noel, Essence, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The process went through the league's conduct committee and was approved by all of the ownership.
    Clarence E. Hill Jr., star-telegram, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Kaleb Allen Rackley was charged with two counts of deadly conduct of a firearm.
    Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Feb. 2023
  • This conduct amounted to stalking, a felony crime, Boudin said.
    Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 May 2022
  • He was credited with 1,431 days for time served and good conduct.
    Cathy Locke, sacbee, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Also, look at the amount of violent conduct there have been.
    SI.com, 13 July 2018
  • Everyone in our newsroom must agree to live up to this code of conduct.
    Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • That's because schools will now be able to require students to meet their code of conduct.
    Jeff Amy, ajc, 6 May 2021
  • The state argues that the law governs a business owner's conduct, not their speech.
    Theara Coleman, The Week, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The code of conduct that applies to other federal judges doesn’t apply to the Supreme Court.
    John Harwood, ProPublica, 1 Oct. 2023
  • But his defense team denies that Snyder’s conduct rose to the level of any crime.
    Ed White, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2022
  • This conduct just affirms what many of us in this country have always feared.
    Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com, 20 June 2020
  • The deadly shooting of three hostages who waved a white flag added to concerns about Israel's wartime conduct.
    Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Fairfield refers to the company’s conduct as the online version of droit du seigneur.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The suit also argues the city, the county and the social service agency endorsed their conduct by failing to take proper action.
    The Enquirer, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Of the four criminal investigations into Mr. Trump’s conduct, his case in New York may be the only one to go to trial before the 2024 election.
    Terence McGinley, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024

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