Conceive in a sentence as a verb

If you conceive to build a perpetual motion machine then you will have taken the first step.

I can't conceive of who would sign up for this given how little information there is on the site.

I couldn't conceive of a world where enough contract work existed that I could possibly line up.

Because as much as I agree with the PR, I have the ability to conceive of other perspectives.

They have comics aimed at insurance salesmen, golfers, pretty much any kind of genre you can conceive of.

How does someone even conceive of something like that without realizing the glaring problem with it?

If that is impossible to conceive of, make sure that you are exploring all avenues -- including bankruptcy.

It's not like it was imitating anything especially unique or difficult to conceive.

We need to start working yesterday on a society that can conceive of supporting even those who contribute nothing, or I fear that the era of free food will see us all starve to death.

The way people normally conceive of iterative processes does not contain the essential element of recursion: that something is used in its own definition.

Yes and no. Yes, he could say "I work for AmaGooFaceSoft on a new type of infrastructure product which most companies can't even conceive of but which makes a lot of sense when you have 10,000 engineers and several hundred thousand servers.

Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.

If the operative standard were otherwise, then all innovation would stand frozen altogether because it is always possible to conceive of an ill use for any technology that makes things faster, more powerful, more efficient, etc. Put any such thing into the hands of human actors and some bad results are guaranteed to follow given enough time and opportunity.

Conceive definitions

verb

have the idea for; "He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients"; "This library was well conceived"

See also: gestate conceptualize conceptualise

verb

judge or regard; look upon; judge; "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior"

See also: think believe consider

verb

become pregnant; undergo conception; "She cannot conceive"; "My daughter was conceived in Christmas Day"