How to Use convey in a Sentence

convey

verb
  • The pipes convey water to the fields.
  • They conveyed the goods by ship.
  • He conveyed the estate to his son.
  • The singer was conveyed from her hotel to the airport by limousine.
  • The message conveyed a sense of urgency.
  • Even the trailer didn't quite convey what the show was.
    Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The message conveyed by both camps was that mum’s the word.
    Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Again, make sure those rights convey to the brand in the contract.
    Jim Tobin, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The purpose of the core message is to convey your focus.
    Liana Zavo, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • What is the best and proper way to convey my apologies?
    Judith Martin, Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
  • The facility had a plan for the storm that was conveyed to us by the staff.
    Lisa J. Huriash, Sun-Sentinel.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • The star knows when to use her moment to convey a message.
    Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2018
  • This refund will convey in the form of a free bet token.
    Xl Media, cleveland, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Anything longer than a few words was best conveyed in a call.
    Michael Zelenko, The Verge, 3 May 2018
  • And are emotions a landscape that a brain scan can convey?
    The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The chart should be used to convey far more than just the sterile facts of a medical case.
    Trisha S. Pasricha, STAT, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Wasn’t that what drew him to the theater, to convey a message?
    John Leland, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020
  • To try to convey emotions at the same level as actions.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 10 Sep. 2021
  • That whole trip, my daughters just conveyed their pride in me.
    Wendy Davis, Cosmopolitan, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Non-crappy teams can convey seconds in the top half of the second round.
    Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 25 Mar. 2021
  • If the patient sees changes that need to be made while wearing the temp teeth, that can be conveyed to the lab.
    Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 28 Feb. 2019
  • Miller added that Patrick didn’t have to convey his feelings about the process.
    Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Yet none of these names conveys the fullness of that person.
    Rachel Pieh Jones, Longreads, 22 Dec. 2017
  • The best way to convey a message is not to go to Moscow to hold meetings.
    Bryan Lowry, kansascity, 6 July 2018
  • Then there was figuring out how to convey that on screen.
    EW.com, 5 May 2021
  • His goal is to convey these emotions through his images.
    Nell Lewis, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Those few words hardly convey the extent of the conflict.
    Jennifer Brett, ajc, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Just having a thought changes the eyes in a specific way that helps convey a message.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Dec. 2019
  • What word was there for me then that could have conveyed the wrongness of everything?
    Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Progress can seem hard to measure or at least to convey succinctly.
    Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 21 Feb. 2020

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