How to Use conduct in a Sentence

conduct

1 of 2 verb
Definition of conductnext
Synonyms for conductnext
  • He conducts the choir with great skill and emotion.
  • Our guide conducted us along the path.
  • I like the way the company conducts business.
  • Who will be conducting the meeting?
  • Our guide slowly conducted us through the museum.
  • The magazine conducted a survey.
  • The committee is expected to conduct hearings in May.
  • The police are conducting an investigation into last week's robbery.
  • The steel balls that conduct the current should glide right over your skin.
    — Sarah Wu, Glamour, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Evan is a working dog and conducts himself by a strict set of rules.
    — Ellen Gormley, Cincinnati.com, 21 Jan. 2020
  • The goal is to conduct these reviews by the end of the year, or have a plan in place to implement them.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 23 Sep. 2020
  • In the locked unit of the hospital, the nurses conducted drug tests and blood work.
    — Rebecca Chamaa, Glamour, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Yes, people need to learn how to conduct themselves in the workplace.
    — Ellevate, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • The city, for its part, used to conduct encampment cleanups.
    — Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The lack of a speaker means the chamber cannot conduct business or swear in its members.
    — Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2023
  • But the issue of which company will conduct the repairs is still up in the air.
    — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Through the Soviets the people who did the work of the world would conduct their own affairs.
    — John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The two platforms are former oil rigs, and the plan is to perch them in the ocean and conduct launches from far offshore.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 30 May 2021
  • If lightning strikes the building, the lightning will be conducted around and into the ground.
    — Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Her body was found in a gulch after police conducted a search.
    — Maggie Wilson, ajc, 22 June 2018
  • Back then, though, the country could conduct only a few thousand tests a day.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Almost every city that conducts these kinds of studies finds the same results.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 25 June 2018
  • The watchdog group had to file hundreds of records requests to conduct its analysis.
    — Joe Schoffstall, Fox News, 1 Sep. 2022
  • In the meantime, two sergeants were ordered to conduct wellness checks on him in his barracks room at night.
    — Meryl Kornfield, Kyle Rempfer, Steven Rich, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2023
  • The business will operate as a firing range and also conduct some gun sales.
    — Beth Mlady, cleveland, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The authors believe the study should be conducted on a range of foreign languages to see if their findings hold true.
    — Maggie Maloney, Town & Country, 25 Oct. 2017
  • To reduce the risk of spread, summer school this year will be conducted through distance learning.
    — CBS News, 21 May 2020
  • The general rule is to conduct two outings at each distance and then double that distance.
    — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
  • But the agency has not offered a way to conduct interviews in a virtual way, so those have been slowed.
    — Katsuri Pananjady and Ana Radelat, courant.com, 4 Sep. 2020
  • That means reporters no longer can conduct interviews there.
    — Dallas News, 11 Mar. 2020
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conduct

2 of 2 noun
  • A panel investigated her conduct and she was subsequently fired.
  • But the code of conduct only applies to the lower courts.
    — Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Most, if not all of the conduct alleged, is decades old.
    — Jim Derogatis, The New Yorker, 12 July 2019
  • He was jailed for one year and discharged for bad conduct.
    — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Trump’s conduct in office or if there is still room to fall.
    — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 2 Feb. 2021
  • He was given a bad-conduct discharge at the rank of private.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Freep.com, 22 Jan. 2020
  • The board has twice voted down a code of conduct, split between the factions.
    — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 26 Feb. 2020
  • In the end, the conduct of his deputies continued to add to the taxpayers’ cost.
    — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
  • They were utilized in the course of action, in the course of conduct, by the defendant.
    — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 17 June 2022
  • And how did Metaxas respond to the facts about Trump’s conduct?
    — David French, Time, 23 June 2020
  • Everyone in our newsroom must agree to live up to this code of conduct.
    — Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Also, look at the amount of violent conduct there have been.
    — SI.com, 13 July 2018
  • The process went through the league's conduct committee and was approved by all of the ownership.
    — Clarence E. Hill Jr., star-telegram, 31 Oct. 2017
  • This conduct just affirms what many of us in this country have always feared.
    — Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com, 20 June 2020
  • That's because schools will now be able to require students to meet their code of conduct.
    — Jeff Amy, ajc, 6 May 2021
  • House Democrats have likened Trump’s conduct to bribery.
    — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Two men were arrested and charged with felony deadly conduct in the days after the shooting.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 24 Nov. 2022
  • But states continue to push laws aimed at rooting out such conduct.
    — Charisse Jones, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The pair face charges of trafficking heroin and reckless conduct.
    — Ben Brasch, ajc, 6 July 2018
  • Fairfield refers to the company’s conduct as the online version of droit du seigneur.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The state argues that the law governs a business owner's conduct, not their speech.
    — Theara Coleman, The Week, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The board has twice voted down a code of conduct, split between the familiar factions.
    — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Like any other form of transportation, walking down the street comes with its own codes of conduct.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2017
  • This time, the outcry was caused by a track’s content, rather than an artist’s conduct.
    — Tim Ingham, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The justices are not bound by the code of conduct that covers other U.S. judges.
    — Jonathan O'Connell and Ann E. Marimow, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Police conduct and use of force have become hot-button issues over the last year or so.
    — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 4 Mar. 2021
  • This conduct amounted to stalking, a felony crime, Boudin said.
    — Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 May 2022
  • Kaleb Allen Rackley was charged with two counts of deadly conduct of a firearm.
    — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Feb. 2023
  • For smaller cities, one huge payout for police conduct could equal a year of taxes.
    — Shannon Prather, Star Tribune, 24 Apr. 2021
  • But his defense team denies that Snyder’s conduct rose to the level of any crime.
    — Ed White, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2022

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