Use conversation in a sentence
Sentences starting with conversation
- Conversation As It Was By The Social Fire-side In The Time Of The Tudors from Ye Diary of Ye Cupbearer to her Maisty Queen Elizabeth. [5]
- Conversation with him was always profitable and the ease with which he made subjects farthest from his own sphere of investigation--chemistry perfectly clear was unique in its way. [10]
- Conversation turned upon the wonderful discoveries of travelers, whose voyages to the New World occupied much of the public attention. [4]
- Conversation languished, and the cosey and familiar haunts of the Pelican knew Mr. Crewe no more. [9]
- Conversation with him out of the best phrase-books would be uninteresting. [4]
- Conversation between two Londoners, two New Yorkers, two Bostonians, requires no foot-notes, which is a great advantage in their intercourse. [6]
- Conversation of this kind, interesting to no one yet unavoidable, continued all through teatime. [2]
- Conversation fell naturally into the customary grooves. [5]
- Conversation ceased at her entrance. [9]
- Conversation had been general and without particular force, as it always is when merely civic or political matters are under view. [11]
Sentences ending with conversation
- After all (Mr. Worthington reflected), he had consented to the marriage, and there was no use in bringing Jethro's name into the conversation. [9]
- His presence prevented Wolf from renewing the interrupted conversation. [10]
- Speranski smiled and, with an evident wish to prevent the conversation from taking an unpleasant course, told a story that had no connection with the previous conversation. [2]
- In these days, when there had been neither games, nor pageants, nor distribution of corn, the Romans and Caesar had been their sole subjects of conversation. [10]
- It's quite true what foreigners say about our men,--that they live in a groove, that they haven't any range of conversation. [9]
- Presently the two were engaged in conversation. [6]
- At lunch she was unable to talk; to sustain, at least, a conversation. [9]
- When the supper was over he hardly knew whether he had eaten any of it or not, and he certainly hadn't heard any of the conversation. [5]
- Their first meeting was at Grady's quick-lunch counter in Faber Street, which they both frequented at one time, and the fact that each had ordered a ham sandwich, a cup of coffee, and a confection--new to Grady's--known as a Napoleon had led to conversation. [9]
- When their hunger was appeased, the wine flowed more freely, and each guest was decked with sweetly-smelling flowers, whose odor was supposed to add to the vivacity of the conversation. [10]
Short sentences using conversation
- The conversation became worldly. [4]
- Our conversation is largely chaff. [4]
- The conversation was hushed. [2]
- Conversation began to flag. [5]
- The conversation was desultory. [9]
- Besides, conversation is dangerous. [4]
- We began a conversation. [9]
- There was no conversation. [5]
- A buzz of conversation arises. [4]
- Then the conversation began. [9]
Sentences containing conversation two or more times
- Talk without words is half their conversation, just as it is all the conversation of the lower animals. [6]
- Stolypin, stuttering, broke into the conversation and began excitedly talking of the abuses that existed under the former order of things--threatening to give a serious turn to the conversation. [2]
- Much of this conversation Eva repeated to the knight, and her pleasure in the subject of the conversation increased the vivacity of her active mind, and soon led her to talk with eager eloquence. [10]
More example sentences with the word conversation in them
- He found the young tinner up there, alone and brooding, and entered into conversation with him. [5]
- Bye and bye you will comprehend why it is that I wish to unbosom myself to a newspaper man when I have so studiously avoided conversation with other people. [5]
- They were hostile; yet when the favourite intimated that he, too, ought to be given up to justice, she showed so much hesitation, that Alexas stopped abruptly and turned the conversation upon Barine. [10]
- They had not yet had a loud conversation among the men and a dispute about something important and clever. [2]
- He was not yet aware of her arrival for, completely absorbed in the subject of their conversation, he was talking with his private secretary Escovedo. [10]
- His words so wrought upon us that it was a relief to us all when the conversation drifted into a more cheerful channel and the natural features of the curious country we were in came under treatment. [5]
- Yesterday I was writing a deep article on a sublime philosophical subject while such a conversation was going on in the room. [5]
- So he sent word to the sick man, that he should be pleased to visit him and have some conversation with him; and received for answer that he would be welcome. [6]
- True, the cautious woman took no part in the conversation afterward, but she kept her charge in sight while she was skilfully knotting the fringe into a cloth which she had woven herself. [10]
- Indeed, this adaptable woman soon found that she had become an object of more than usual interest, by her latest exploit, in the circles in which she moved, and her softened manner and edifying conversation showed that she appreciated her position. [4]
- She was familiar with whatever Grecian art had created, and the animated conversation became a bewitching spectacle. [10]
- A single conversation with this marvellous woman had bound her forever. [10]
- A short conversation with the steward confirmed this opinion. [10]
- After his conversation with the sovereign he had retired to his private room, to devote himself to the philological studies which he pursued during the greater portion of the day with equal zeal and success. [10]
- The countess looked with sad and sternly serious eyes at Prince Andrew when he talked to Natasha and timidly started some artificial conversation about trifles as soon as he looked her way. [2]
- Since his conversation with Nemu, and the dwarf's interpretation of his dream, the path which he must tread to reach his aim had been plain before him. [10]
- I was annoyed with myself for my share in the conversation so far. [11]
- During her conversation with Mrs. Kame she had more than once suspected, in spite of her efforts, that the lady had read her state of mind. [9]
- After his conversation with me, Mr. Marmaduke had lost no time in seeing Mr. Dix, in order to raise money on my prospects. [9]
- When I meet with any facts in my own mental experience, I feel almost sure that I shall find them repeated or anticipated in the writings or the conversation of others. [6]
- Philostratus thought it wise not to dispute this assumption, and soon diverted the conversation to the subject of Melissa's imprisoned relations. [10]
- In the bow window jutting out into the street, where the old grandmother sat in her armchair, two green and yellow parrots on brass perches interrupted the conversation, whenever it grew louder, with the shrill screams of their ugly voices. [10]
- When he returned, Wilhelm and Junker von Warmond were so engaged in eager conversation, that they did not notice his entrance. [10]
- Several young courtiers who were walking in front of their chariots, surrounded them and joined in the laughter and merry conversation, in which the vivacious wife of the chief priest shared, having left her large travelling-chariot to be carried in a litter. [10]
- But Mr. Cuthbert, who did not appear to perceive the humour in this conversation, extracted some keys and several pasteboard slips from a rack in the corner. [9]
- We started a whispered conversation, but suddenly Clarence broke off and said: "What is that? [5]
- In the conversation which Heinz began with Eva he was at first obliged to defend himself, for she had admitted that she had heard the Burgravine's warning to beware of him. [10]
- He follows forms which have but little resemblance to conversation, but they make the reader understand what the writer is trying to convey. [5]
- May I ask whether you propose to do me the honor of reporting this visit and the conversation we have had, for the columns of the newspaper with which you are connected? [6]
- The night before when, after her conversation with Els, she began to pray, she had feared that she had fallen into the snare of earthly love, and dreaded the confession which she had to make to her aunt Kunigunde. [10]
- Late one night when the sweethearts had been having a flawless visit together, Sally's interior devil began to work his specialty, and soon the conversation was drifting toward the customary rock. [5]
- They require that when the author describes the character of a personage in his tale, the conduct and conversation of that personage shall justify said description. [5]
- Honora actually quivered when she read of Dr. Johnson's first conversation with Miss Burney. [9]
- But when these were finally disposed of, Mr. Flint led the conversation back to the Honourable Humphrey Crewe, who stood harmless--to be sure--like a bull on the track which it might be unwise to run over. [9]
- The Doctor presently went up to Elsie, determined to engage her in conversation and get her out of her thoughts, which he saw, by her look, were dangerous. [6]
- The heartbreaking conversation went on: "Rosannah, I knew you must be beautiful, but this is dazzling, this is blinding, this is intoxicating! [5]
- One evening, three weeks or so after the conversation with Ethel Wing just related, Honora's husband entered her room as her maid was giving the finishing touches to her toilet. [9]
- Dinner at Weathersfield we youngsters had usually found rather an oppressive ceremony, with its shaded lights and precise ritual over which Mr. Kyme presided like a high priest; conversation had been restrained. [9]
- This is the way the conversation between the Doctor of Divinity and the Doctor of Medicine was going on at the point where these notes take it up. [6]
- He has a way of letting it rise as his sentence goes on, or when he is opposed in argument, or wishes to mount above other voices in the conversation, until it dominates everything. [4]
- I halted; waited; watched; the conversation continued between the four men; it grew earnest; Backus drew gradually away; the gamblers followed, and kept at his elbow. [5]
- One sweltering afternoon--it was the first day of July, 1830--he was at work over a set of tangled account books in his workroom, which looked westward over a stretch of vacant lots, when a conversation outside disturbed him. [5]
- While this conversation was taking place, Melissa and her companion had reached the shore of the lake, the large inland sea which washed the southern side of the city and afforded anchorage for the Nile-boats. [10]
- The same conversation was repeated next day and the day after, and the day after that. [2]
- This, I think, was noticed by her, and enjoyed too, for she doubtless remembered her conversation with me, in which she had said that Clovelly thought he understood her perfectly. [11]
- At least there was no conversation further than a single hurried request, now and then, from one employee to another. [5]
- Then the conversation was more serious, and Caracalla said, so loud that Melissa could hear him: "Do not forget to whom you speak. [10]
- That something shameful was his yesterday's conversation with Captain Ramballe. [2]
- But his mind was gradually recovering its balance, and he was able to hold some conversation with those about him. [6]
- While this conversation was going on the gemcutter was feeding his birds. [10]
- At dinner he was fitful in conversation, yet inclined to be critical of the talk around him. [11]
- The wide vestibule was empty except for two men who stopped a low-toned conversation to look at me. [9]
- Gradually his voice was coming back to him, so that he could hold some conversation, as was before mentioned, with those about him. [6]
- Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the time of the Tudors. [5]
- The young man was absent, but the Dukes and Countesses and Princes went over the premises with us as leisurely as was the case at the Emperor's, and conversation continued as lively as ever. [5]
- Of course there was a buzz of conversation going on--there always is; but at last, when the Rev. [5]
- Now, if he wanted a friend, why couldn't he have one that knew a thing or two, and could do him some good by his manners and conversation. [12]
- If you didn't want to hear my clack, what did you keep intruding your conversation on me for? [5]
- Their conversation was very simple and unimportant. [2]
- It has been very pleasant, and when you go it will be very humdrum again; our conversation, mustering, rounding-up, bullocks, and rabbits. [11]
- I know a very excellent person who has had trials, and is greatly interested in religious conversation. [6]
- At last I ventured to ask what literature it was that interested her so much, when she turned and frankly entered into conversation. [4]
- It was not usual for Mr. Crewe to find it difficult to begin a conversation, or to have a companion as self-sufficient as himself. [9]
- Belle Treherne, who up to that moment had never quite liked her, yielded to the agreeable charm of her conversation and her frank applausive remarks upon the costumes of the dancers. [11]
- As he advanced up the mid-aisle the interest was so intense that the low murmur of conversation in the great assemblage died out and was succeeded by a profound hush, a breathless stillness, through which his footfalls pulsed with a dull and distant sound. [5]
- Deacon Soper came up presently, and entered into conversation with Colonel Sprowle. [6]
- Moses Hatch hitched up his team and went out to see Jabez, spent an hour in general conversation, and then plumped the question, taking, as he said, that means of finding out. [9]
- And by some untoward association she was reminded of a conversation she had had with Ditmar on the Saturday afternoon following their first Sunday excursion, when, on opening her pay envelope, she had found twenty dollars. [9]
- It was not until they were seated in adjoining chairs of the parlour-car that the conversation was renewed. [9]
- The great "Negro University Swindle" became the one absorbing topic of conversation throughout the Union. [5]
- I heard, and understood, and remembered the first part of the conversation which passed between them, and did not know it. [9]
- The Cure came two or three times, and Charley spoke to him but never held conversation, and no word concerning the past ever passed his tongue, nor did he have memory of what was said to him from one day to the next. [11]
- During this conversation two men had been busily occupied, in front of the paraschites' hut, in driving piles into the earth, and stretching a torn linen cloth upon them. [10]
- The sooner they two had a conversation, the better. [10]
- Austen Vane called twice, and then made an arrangement with young Dr. Tredway (one of the numerous Ripton Tredways whose money had founded the hospital) that he was to see Mr. Meader as soon as he was able to sustain a conversation. [9]
- Then the conversation turned upon the feud that existed between Viking and Sunburst, the river-drivers and the fishers. [11]
- So he cautiously turned the conversation to the spinner Arachne, and when Stephanion entered into it, admitted that he, too, was curious to learn in what way the sculptors would represent her. [10]
- The conversation naturally turned on the peace. [2]
- It raised a turmoil of excited conversation, and opinions fell thick and fast. [5]
- A man instinctively tries to get rid of his thought in conversation or in print so soon as it is matured; but it is hard to get at it as it lies imbedded, a mere potentiality, the germ of a germ, in his intellect. [6]
- The conversation which took place in the hearing of the invisible third party began in a singularly free-and-easy manner on Mr. Bradshaw's part. [6]
- The Delphian then took part in the general conversation, but Aristomachus repeated the words of the Oracle unceasingly to himself in a low voice, endeavoring to impress them on his memory, and to interpret their obscure import. [10]
- Then the conversation took a lively turn, but duty was not forgotten, for at the end of half an hour the captain rose to survey the horizon himself and urge the sentinels to vigilant watchfulness. [10]
- He couples them together in his conversation as closely as Chang and Eng were coupled. [6]
- The friends supped together at the satrap's table and then retired to Bartja's private room, in order to enjoy an undisturbed conversation. [10]
- Although the conversation to which he subjected her had resulted in her favour, he had deemed it beneficial to place a priest who was devoted to him among the ecclesiastics in the little castle. [10]
- Some persons seem to think that absolute truth, in the form of rigidly stated propositions, is all that conversation admits. [6]
- I almost laughed to think of the melodramatic turn which my first conversation with this woman might chance to take. [11]
- And the opening to their conversation was unexpected. [9]
- He rode over to the town in which she was residing, and there had a long conversation with her upon this matter. [6]
- When you come to the long conversation in the second act, turn to any pamphlet of your French Meisterschaft, and shovel in as much French talk on any subject as will fill up the gaps left by the expunged German. [5]
- Truth held me to the full, ludicrous tragedy of the tale, to the cheap character of my old Colonel's undertaking, to the incident of the drum, to the conversation in my room. [9]
- Miss Cynthia went to the door with Mr. Bradshaw, and the conversation immediately became short and informal. [6]
- Tom's first contribution to the conversation was a question which he had put to Wilson a hundred times before. [5]
- He then began to talk in a general way about Gaston's voyage, of the Hudson's Bay Company, and expeditions to the Arctic, drawing Lady Dargan into the conversation. [11]
- I am going to surprise my reader with a letter which I received very shortly after the conversation took place which I have just reported. [6]
- To be allowed to stay and paint with him, become absorbed in conversation about art, its problems, means and purposes, afforded her the highest, purest happiness. [10]
- From politeness and to start conversation, they asked him a few questions about the army and the battle, and then the talk went off into merry jests and gossip. [2]
- Pierre had managed to start a conversation with the abbe about the balance of power, and the latter, evidently interested by the young man's simple-minded eagerness, was explaining his pet theory. [2]
- Then she appeared to sink away into herself for a moment, before she fell into conversation with the others, as they moved towards the vestry. [11]
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