Convey

//kənˈveɪ//

"Convey" in a Sentence (28 examples)

It is difficult to convey the meaning exactly.

Buses, trains and planes convey passengers.

Words cannot convey my feelings.

Words cannot convey my true feelings.

Words cannot convey how glad I am.

We often use gestures to convey simple messages.

I can convey my feelings in words.

I can't convey my feelings in words.

Wires are used to convey electricity.

His words convey nothing at all to me.

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Air conveys sound. Water is conveyed through the pipe.

[…] I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir. My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there […]

The Fallopian Tubes, or oviducts, convey the ova from the ovaries to the cavity of the uterus.

The normal methods of road delivery are by driving the cars individually, or by car transporters which convey as many as eight vehicles on massive articulated double-deck trailers.

Convey me to my bed, then to my grave: Love they to live that love and honour have.

[…] the false Tyrant seiz’d the Princely Maid, And to a Lodge in distant Woods convey’d;

It began to rain, not much, but enough to make shelter desirable for women, and quite enough to make it very desirable for Miss Elliot to have the advantage of being conveyed home in Lady Dalrymple’s carriage, which was seen waiting at a little distance […]

to convey an impression; to convey information

To make Words serviceable to the end of Communication is necessary […] that they excite, in the Hearer, exactly the same Idea they stand for, in the Mind of the Speaker: Without this, Men fill one another’s Heads with noise and sounds; but convey not thereby their Thoughts, and lay not before one another their Ideas, which is the end of Discourse and Language.

This excellent Method of conveying a Falshood with the Heart only, without making the Tongue guilty of an Untruth, by the Means of Equivocation and Imposture, hath quieted the Conscience of many a notable Deceiver […]

I am afraid I cannot convey the peculiar sensations of time travelling.

To her son these words conveyed an extraordinary joy, as if it were settled the expedition were bound to take place, and the wonder to which he had looked forward, for years and years it seemed, was, after a night’s darkness and a day’s sail, within touch.

He conveyed ownership of the company to his daughter.

The refrigerator, washer, and dryer do not convey unless it's specifically laid out in the contract.

[…] before his breaking forth into open rebellion, [the Earle of Desmond] had conveyed secretly all his lands to feoffees of trust, in hope to have cut off her Maiestie from the escheate of his lands.

1557, uncredited translator, A Mery Dialogue by Erasmus, London: Antony Kytson, I shall so conuey my matters, that he shall dysclose all together hym selfe, what busynesse is betwene you […]

I will seek him, sir, presently; convey the business as I shall find means, and acquaint you withal.

Suppose you are good at the lift, who be more cunning then we women, in that we are more trusted, for they little suspect vs, and we haue as close conueyance as you men, though you haue Cloakes, we haue skirts of gownes, handbaskets, the crownes of our hattes, our plackardes, and for a need, false bagges vnder our smockes, wherein we can conuey more closely then you.

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