How to Use conceit in a Sentence

conceit

noun
  • His conceit has earned him many enemies.
  • The conceit is risky but pays off.
    — Literary Hub, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The conceit is risky but pays off.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Ndlovu has a gift for clever conceits and knife-twist endings.
    — Charlie Jane Anders, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
  • This is hardly the first play with this kind of conceit, of course.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
  • In fact, this episode pushes this conceit to an absurd degree.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
  • At their best, his movies are genuinely clever in conceit and construct.
    — WIRED, 24 July 2023
  • When window dressing takes away from that central conceit, what’s the point?
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 9 Dec. 2025
  • The show’s conceit is that the group will have to find a way to build a new human society in six weeks.
    — Eva Holland, Outside Online, 2 Nov. 2022
  • But within that simple conceit is a world of delicious ways to achieve it.
    — Ben Mimscooking Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The conceit here is that there are two boxes that help determine where the story leads.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 Feb. 2026
  • It was designed to show how ridiculous the conceit was and to prod antisemites.
    — Marc Maron, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The conceit of the show is bringing this old school band to the modern age and way of making music.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2023
  • One of the book’s principal conceits is that these case studies are part of a larger trend.
    — Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2023
  • And one of the central things to the conceit of the novel is that some days are more eventful than others.
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Such a conceit—that emotions can be as stylized as clothes—is not a fault so much as a sly strategy.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 June 2023
  • That nobody ever questions Louise is part of the conceit.
    — Malavika Kannan, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Christie’s entire conceit is a fiction, a figment, a mirage — that is, a lie.
    — Varad Mehta, Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2023
  • But, for hundreds of years, the felony-murder doctrine has muddled this conceit.
    — Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The conceit is a story-within-a-story, as the cast plays a troupe of actors and stage crew for a play.
    — Anna Tingley, Variety, 4 Aug. 2023
  • This could be considered conceit.
    — William Schomberg, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
  • That’s a great narrative conceit, which also happens to be true.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 May 2026
  • The conceit also has a moral dimension.
    — Alex Barasch, New Yorker, 11 May 2026
  • Apparently the right conceit has been cracked.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 20 Nov. 2025
  • And that conceit remained unchanged for the first seven seasons.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The central conceit emerged from a simple yet unexplored premise.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Nov. 2025
  • The central conceit of Run and Hide is a correction of the record.
    — Rafia Zakaria, The New Republic, 5 May 2022
  • Visually striking, and a clever way to represent the conceit of the book.
    — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Some episodes handle the conceit better than others, but all are about this literal.
    — Caroline Framke, Variety, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The conceit is one of the great things about [The Terminal List].
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025

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