How to Use convene in a Sentence

convene

verb
Definition of convenenext
Synonyms for convenenext
  • This class convenes twice a week.
  • We convened at the hotel for a seminar.
  • A panel of investigators was convened by the president to review the case.
  • In May of 2012, a panel was convened to debate whether the work of Christopher Hitchens would stand the test of time.
    — David Amsden, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Sexton’s workout group hasn’t convened since, and he and others have been left to train on their own.
    — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 15 Apr. 2023
  • In June, a Texas grand jury convened to decide if Scott and others who helped plan the event should be charged.
    — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Although the panel won’t convene until April 2025, the new record seems likely at this point.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 7 Feb. 2024
  • After all, Alfie has managed to convene us, you and me, on this page, in this moment.
    — Carl Safina, TIME, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Eleven of us hung in different corners in midair and then convened on a stage covered with water.
    — Billboard China, Billboard, 11 May 2023
  • With a little more infrastructure, the thinking goes, Reddit might be able to convene more sales and take a cut of the action.
    — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024
  • One day, the school convened a talk with the students to negotiate a solution.
    — Azadeh Moaveni, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Family and friends convened at the castle and made the most of the grounds with hunting, fishing, horseback riding, picnics and hikes.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
  • In one instance, a group convened for three straight days at Camp David in Maryland to war-game a scenario that foreshadowed the Berlin crisis of 1961.
    — Jacquelyn Schneider, Foreign Affairs, 26 Dec. 2023
  • The group convened late, after much of the hospital had cleared, to walk through the results of a PET scan that would reveal the reach of her menacing breast cancer.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Six of us had convened that Saturday morning to make apple pies.
    — Deborah Linder, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2023
  • This makes a mockery of the purpose of a medical board convened by a medical practice act.
    — Joel B. Zivot, STAT, 26 Feb. 2024
  • In one example, the studios will convene a miniroom before a show has been picked up by a studio and scheduled to air.
    — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The concerns were raised at a hearing convened to examine the city shortcomings leading up to the bloodshed.
    — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 15 July 2023
  • This is how Harris relaxes—sitting somewhere near the center of a crowd that he’s convened.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The union shut down all other picket locations for the day and encouraged members to convene as one on Alameda Avenue to mark the 111th day of the walkout.
    — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • This itself is evidence of the problem that this hearing was convened to address.
    — Nicholas Kerr, ABC News, 20 July 2023
  • No one is going to convene a Deep Listening Consortium to unpack its meaning, and that’s part of the appeal.
    — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Shoppers from all over the country, and even internationally, convened at the store to buy into the zeitgeist.
    — Zoe Whitfield, CNN, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Instead, voters convene in a community center—a city hall, a church, a school gym—during one evening in the winter.
    — Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Lawmakers now are convening in a special session to complete the new map by the July 21 deadline.
    — Caroline Curran, ABC News, 10 July 2023
  • To compile the 13th annual list, judges and Forbes reporters convened in-person to taste samples and discuss the candidates.
    — Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • At the edge of the Texas-Mexico border last week, beneath the shade of towering trees, immigrant advocates convened in a Brownsville park to protest a new state law.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Players from both teams left their respective benches and bullpens and convened between home plate and the pitcher’s mound before things were broken up.
    — Tyler Mason, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Last July, Anstead was able to convene all of his children together in America.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 1 June 2023
  • Montana’s state legislature convenes every two years, and Zephyr would have to be re-elected in 2024 before returning to the House floor in two years.
    — USA TODAY, 3 May 2023

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