But it is conceivable that he pursued his studies after his own manner, and probably enough excited by his independence the strong disapprobation of the master and tutor of the college of his day.
She will be the first to back me up in the only conceivable course.
Was it conceivablethat the blood-stained life-preserver would be enough for him?
Similarly, with respect to space, mathematical and physiological researches have shown that the space of experience is simply an actual case of many conceivable cases, about whose peculiar properties experience alone can instruct us.
But knowing the index of refraction for the two media presented, and the familiar law of the sines, we can easily reproduce or fill out in thought every conceivable case of refraction.
Similarly, the equations between the elements of phenomena express a universal, mathematically conceivable relation.
It is just conceivable that in those days the Babylonians might have borrowed from Greece the word kitharis.
Under no conceivable circumstances could such marvels have been forgotten; under no circumstances could they have possibly failed to create an intense and a profound impression.
In short every conceivable experiment in government was tried in one town or another, or in the same town at different times, to the great confusion of systematic order.
Agents were at once sent out to take advantage of every conceivable opportunity to make the American think as he ought about these things--that is, to think as Germany thought.
The ship had sailed for the purpose of supplying a young colony; she had therefore on board every conceivable article we could desire in our present situation; our only difficulty indeed was to make a wise selection.
Anarchy does not involve, as Huxley suggests, "the highest conceivable grade of perfection of social existence.
The conceivable is and ever must be bounded by the inconceivable; the domain of the former is finite, that of the latter is infinite.
We speak of the conceivable and of the inconceivable as if the words had any clear and tangible meaning in our minds; whereas they have not; at the best they are of but relative value.
It is not conceivablethat such a ridiculous display of impecunious justice would be made elsewhere in the country.
What is conceivable to one man is inconceivable to another; what is beyond the perception of one generation is matter of fact to the next.
The two nominations of Bryan mark low level in the political tide; it is not conceivable that a great political party could sink lower; for less of a statesman and more of a demagogue does not exist.
Very early the next morning the boys were swarming into coaches, carriages, brakes, and every conceivable vehicle which could by any possibility convey them to the nearest station.
It was too late to curse his rashness and folly, nor would he even try to face his frightful situation till he had thought of every conceivable means by which to escape.
The reward of the soul is its return to its source, the universal soul, and the only conceivable punishment is the sinful soul's failure to attain this end.
It is conceivable that the wealthy Jews who owned slaves exerted themselves to obtain the repeal of Reccared's law, and to this end they proffered a considerable sum of money to the king.
Dunash ben Labrat in his works developed a symmetry and harmony of expression in the holy language such as was scarcely conceivable by his predecessors.
A form of life is, however, conceivable in which the effect of the external upon the internal produces merely feelings of desire or dislike.
An existence of thyself after the destruction of thy body is not conceivable by thee as possible; but can it be more inconceivable to thee than thy present existence, and how thou hast attained to it?
He was in love with a girl above his station, rich, and of old family, but strange in all her ways, and it was conceivable that he should become suddenly jealous of her.
To meet the power of choice, however, something more was necessary than the mere revelation of the Type--it was necessary that the Type should be the highest conceivable Type.
The tale was rehearsed in saloon and cafe with every conceivable addition and exaggeration, and the queen hardly knew which way to turn from the invectives which were so mercilessly showered upon her.
Here the kings of France had rioted in boundless profusion, and every conceivable appliance of pleasure was collected in these abodes, from which all thoughts of retribution were studiously excluded.
The mob jeered, and derided, and insulted her in every conceivable way.
They began, however, notwithstanding the most earnest remonstrances, to make preparations for flight by providing themselves with every conceivable comfort for their exile.
During all this time he was exposed to every conceivable insult.
The president of the Assembly, at that late hour, crowded his way into the apartment where, for several hours, the king had been exposed to every conceivable indignity.
She could have no intercourse with her brother, who she only knew was suffering everyconceivable outrage in another part of the prison.
Spread out upon the gentle declivity of an extended hill were grounds embellished in the highest style of art, and intended to rival the garden of Eden itself in every conceivable attraction.
If it is suggested that the Florentine himself kept them secret, without any conceivable object for doing so, there were all his companions to proclaim them, and there must have been an official report.
It is incredible that Vespucci and all his companions should have combined to conceal their wonderful discoveries without any conceivable reason, their silence being most injurious to themselves.
What other sense is conceivable that does not destroy the doctrine which it professes to interpret--that does not convert it into its own negative?
There is no other conceivable means by which it can be acquired.
There isn't a scatterbrained adventure conceivable that we're not going to be forced into, nor an imaginable peril that we're not going to have to pull him out of.
Since they were written in Turkish they were of no conceivable use to any one but Fred and Rustum Khan.
In fact they minister to the public weal in every conceivable capacity.
It is conceivable that, in the course of the ages, the wisdom of mankind might invent some language more ideally perfect than Esperanto, but we cannot afford to wait.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conceivable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
