Conceive

//kənˈsiːv//

"Conceive" in a Sentence (22 examples)

I cannot conceive why she has done such a thing.

We cannot conceive science without a hypothesis.

I can't conceive how I could have made such a mistake.

I can't conceive of her deceiving me.

I can't conceive of living without him.

Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object.

But nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be.

It is not possible to conceive without perceiving.

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Assisted procreation can help those trying to conceive.

She hath also conceived a son in her old age.

It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised near twenty years of my life.

At the mouth of the cave we found a single litter with six bearers, all of them mutes, waiting, and with them I was relieved to see our old friend Billali, for whom I had conceived a sort of affection.

There are, moreover, grounds for thinking that the Rosaline of Love’s Labour’s Lost was originally conceived of by Shakespeare as pale with black eyes—...

The car cost $700 initially. The subsequent cost was mounting out of sight, but I had conceived an extraordinary fondness for the bug, and my sother had conceived an extraordinary fondness for me, so she allowed my passion for the car to ransack our savings.

Can you conceive of him as a leader?

We shall, / As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount / Before you, Lepidus.

[…]you will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the ſame Climate […]

Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.

Remember, if you please, that the man you call slave sprang from the same seed, enjoys the same daylight, breathes like you, lives like you, dies like you. You can as easily conceive him a free man as he can conceive you a slave.

I conceive you.

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