| 1. | Not that I am in the least conventional in that respect myself. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 2. | Sir, I make no apology for dropping all forms of conventional prefix. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 3. | According to my experience, the conventional notion of a lover cannot be always true. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 4. | For instance, you will always find, when you know him, that he does things in a way that is very conventional to him. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 5. | Dolly looked coldly at Anna she was waiting now for phrases of conventional sympathy, but Anna said nothing of the sort. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 6. | Wine enjoys only a conventional popularity with serious drinkers. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 7. | TN "Sides small" a conventional description for a woman, not a man. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 8. | "And will you consent to dispense with a great many conventional forms and phrases, without thinking that the omission arises from insolence. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 9. | The "born Puritan," the ascetic, and the naturally conventional person is, on the other hand, invariably an individual of more severe facial outlines. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |