| Patterns of traditional kinship still shape the social conventions of family life. |
| Be aware of ballet recitals, church conferences, conventions and club meetings. |
| The constitution, the penal code, and international and human rights conventions are the only guide to what is acceptable and what is not. |
| These political conventions are a real piece of Americana, a genuine bit of folk culture. |
| To an Alaskan, snow is abstract art, smashing all the conventions and everything in its way. |
| Rooted in immemorial folk beliefs, ghost stories, as a literary genre, have their own conventions and are a comparatively recent development. |
