Conventional in a sentence as an adjective

If we can't even stay away from email for a few days, how can we clear our minds of conventional thinking?

This means you are 5 times more likely to experience a fire in a conventional gasoline car than a Tesla!

With conventional CVS[sic] systems like Perforce, you can scale a single repo nearly as large as any company will need.

First, conventional DLP systems also have suspect parameters.

The conventional thinking is that desktop computing is boring because a modern PC does everything it is intended to do just fine.

The last essay I read before this one suggested --- in agreement with the conventional wisdom of VC's --- that a company needs to be Dropbox-successful to move the needle for YC.

As usual, Stallman was not only ahead of his time, but also swimming against the tide of conventional wisdom, immediately after the attacks of 9/11.

Contrary to the conventional wisdom, which suggests that doctors in the 1840s were sticking horse-manure-covered hands into the exposed wounds of patients, handwashing was apparently already a norm.

The fact that its announcement may have been accompanied by conventional marketing hype and by what may have even been a cynical deal with news outlets to agree to promote it on a big shopping day only confirms the seriousness of the effort, in my view.

" I personally believe that for the general range of cases the pull toward a conventional convertible note will be very strong, and founders will have real difficulty convincing investors why they should forego the benefits of a convertible note in favor of a convertible security where the only advantages to the latter lie strictly with the company.

Conventional definitions

adjective

following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"

adjective

conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world"

See also: established

adjective

(weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons"

adjective

unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes"

adjective

represented in simplified or symbolic form

See also: formal schematic

adjective

in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past; "a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white"; "the conventional handshake"

adjective

rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"

See also: ceremonious