Use talk in a sentence
Sentences starting with talk
- Talk to me, yes, tell me about your travels and all you have been doing on your estates. [2]
- Talk of George Washington and the men of this day! [4]
- Talk about trying to cure warts with spunk-water such a blame fool way as that! [5]
- Talk about basing the currency on gold; you might as well base it on pork. [5]
- Talk not so, sweet prince--peace, peace, to thy troubled heart --thou shalt not die! [5]
- Talk about those subjects you have had long in your mind, and listen to what others say about subjects you have studied but recently. [6]
- Talk was impossible, so I lay back in the corner and looked at her; and now and anon she would glance at my face, with a troubled guess in her own as to how I might stand the night. [9]
- Talk was rife over the commanding general's pomp and circumstance. [9]
- Talk to me no more of mercy or religion--after to-day. [13]
- Talk about Sir Mortimer Durand's sufferings for a single night! [5]
Sentences ending with talk
- For over three years they had let society talk. [11]
- I am as worn out as a post horse, but still I must have a talk with you, Catiche, a very serious talk. [2]
- Henceforth she read with understanding the changes in his manner, and saw behind the mingled abstraction and fanciful meditation of his talk. [11]
- To-morrow morning we will talk. [11]
- The mountaineer, though wet, was as fresh as a daisy, and fatigue in no wise checked the easy, cheerful flow of his talk. [4]
- The dull speaker wearies it and sends it far away in idle dreams; the bright speaker throws out stimulating ideas which it goes chasing after and is at once unconscious of him and his talk. [5]
- At that hour, we used to assemble in the dining-room--we used to talk. [14]
- I saw what was the matter; he had lost the thread of his talk. [6]
- Evidently he had wanted to talk. [2]
- There is something very odd, though, about this mechanical talk. [6]
Short sentences using talk
- Women will talk, you know. [13]
- He can talk with them. [5]
- Yes, I'll talk with him. [9]
- The talk ran upon mountains. [6]
- Are you ready to talk? [5]
- Then he began to talk. [9]
- That's the way to talk. [6]
- They know how to talk. [5]
- I didn't want to talk. [5]
- He was born to talk. [5]
Sentences containing talk two or more times
- So long as you had a grievance you would talk and talk and talk, and you never were so astonished in your life as when I took that five dollars. [11]
- Don't talk, thinking you are going to find out your neighbor, for you won't do it, but talk to find out yourself. [6]
- A little dinner wouldn't make a big talk, and what we want is the big talk, at present, if we don't lay up a cent. [8]
- It's no matter what you say when you talk to yourself, but when you talk to other people, your business is to use words with reference to the way in which those other people are like to understand them. [6]
- It mattered little what he set out to talk about, the talk was sure to be full both of instruction and entertainment. [4]
- He went home toward the middle of the afternoon, basely hoping that Fulkerson had sent him some conciliatory message, or perhaps was waiting there for him to talk it over; March was quite willing to talk it over now. [8]
- Mr. Dolby, who took Dickens to America, is coming to talk business to me tomorrow, though I have sent him word once before, that I can't be hired to talk here, because I have no time to spare. [5]
- It is easy to talk of perennial youth, and to toy with the flattering fictions which every ancient personage accepts as true so far as he himself is concerned, and laughs at as foolish talk when he hears them applied to others. [6]
- No matter whether 'tis a babe or an old woman, he'll talk, and talk, and talk, till they believe in him, poor folks! [11]
- There is nothing they are not interesting in, nothing about which they cannot talk, and talk intensely. [4]
More example sentences with the word talk in them
- It's because of your concern for the welfare of your workers in the mills that I ventured to come and talk to you of how most of them live when they're at home," replied Siddons, as Janet thought, rather neatly. [9]
- At Pocasset the young men explored all the thick woods,--some who ought to have known better taking their guns, which made a talk, as one might well suppose it would. [6]
- The' 's a young gen'l'm'n up at that school where she go,--so some of 'em tells me, 'n' she loves t' see him 'n' talk wi' him, 'n' she talks about him when she 's asleep sometimes. [6]
- I reckon if you'd ever be'n a mother yo'self, Valet de Chambers, you wouldn't talk sich foolishness as dat. [5]
- I say to you, Brice," he went on earnestly, "the importance of plain talk can't be overestimated. [9]
- Of course, or you wouldn't be talking the English language--though I've heard they talk it better in Boston than they do in England, and in Chicago they're making new English every day and improving on the patent. [11]
- I'll talk to you when we're in Lordkop. [11]
- I'll talk with you tomorrow, and am I not right, Jungfrau Elsyou won't make him suffer for losing the wager, but exercise your domestic authority after a more gentle fashion? [10]
- I can't get you to talk seriously even when I come all the way from New York to find out what's going on here. [9]
- I mean, if you talk, won't people notice that your voice is just like Jubiter's; and mightn't it make them think of the twin they reckoned was dead, but maybe after all was hid all this time under another name? [5]
- The wisest woman you talk with is ignorant of something that you know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance. [6]
- I had heard you talk of him. [9]
- When I hear you speak I want to shut my eyes, I am so happy; and every word of mine seems clumsy when you talk to me; and I feel of how little account I am beside you. [11]
- The thing is, you must know how to talk to them, to say the right thing, the flattering, the tactful, and the nice sentimental thing,--they mostly have middle-class sentimentality--and then you get what you want. [11]
- I can tell you more when I have had a chance to talk with Dr. Pindar. [9]
- I know how you hide in areas, how you talk sedition in private, how you have made money out of other men's misery. [9]
- You see, dear, you couldn't talk to him about politics. [4]
- I only know you can't talk too much for me. [8]
- For a time you can see he's hurt, his pride's wounded, because he shrinks away from that thing and don't want to talk about it--and so I used to think now he's learned something and he'll be more careful hereafter--but laws! [5]
- Not only where you are--at the heart of affairs and of the world--is the talk all of war, even here amid fieldwork and the calm of nature--which townsfolk consider characteristic of the country--rumors of war are heard and painfully felt. [2]
- If you think you are strong enough to bear what I am going to say, --I replied,--I will talk to you about this. [6]
- It is because you are just like me that I talk and know that you will listen. [6]
- To walk with you and talk with you for weeks together--why, it's my dream of luxury. [5]
- But I guess you and I will have some more talk after a while,--after Theodore Watling gets to be United States Senator. [9]
- Feeble hearts as you all are, respect the experience of the aged, and bless Fate if it should lame the horse of the Kadi's messenger!--However, you will not listen to anything oracular, so it will be better to talk of something else. [10]
- Some one witnessed yesterday's incident, and it is now the talk of the town. [10]
- Shame seized her; yes, and anger; and shame again at the remembrance of her talk with Euphrasia--and anger once more. [9]
- To Louise he wrote: "It is beautiful to hear him talk when his heart is full of thankfulness for some manifestation of the Divine favor. [5]
- It is entirely wrong because none of you, I, or anybody else, could interview a man--could listen to a man talking any length of time and then go off and reproduce that talk in the first person. [5]
- The wolfish Catherine writes to England for her lost Camisard, with much fool's talk about 'dark figures,' and 'conspirators,' 'churls,' and foes of 'soft peace'; and England takes the bait and sends to Sir Hugh Pawlett yonder. [11]
- And when the writer is making a story and finds it necessary to report some of the talk of his characters observe how cautiously and anxiously he goes at that risky and difficult thing. [5]
- Why shouldn't you write it, and I arrange the material, and talk about it! [9]
- Come, vagrant, outcast, wretch forlorn In leather jerkin stained and torn, Whose talk has filled my idle hour And made me half forget the shower, I'll do at least as much for you, Your coat I'll patch, your gilt renew, Read you,--perhaps,--some other time. [6]
- Why, Huck, it wouldn't make no more talk than breaking into a soap factory. [5]
- If the writers wouldn't exaggerate so, talk about 'the sublimity of the mountains challenging the eternal grandeur of the sea'! [4]
- She said she would try to hope again, she would get up and follow wherever he might lead if only he would not talk like that any more. [5]
- Sometimes the widow would take me one side and talk about Providence in a way to make a body's mouth water; but maybe next day Miss Watson would take hold and knock it all down again. [5]
- She hoped he would see Mr. Ferguson, and talk to him. [9]
- It makes life worth while to talk to men like you who do really big things. [11]
- Not for the world would she have permitted any man to talk and laugh with her in such a way. [10]
- Perhaps in the world of modern reforms this is not possible; but I intend now to cultivate only the standard things, and learn to talk knowingly of the rest. [4]
- Under her loving words of consolation he soon regained his composure, and, still struggling against the rising tears, he cried: "Thank Heaven, there can be no more foolish talk of flight! [10]
- They had a word of talk as they were getting to bed. [5]
- But if you won't talk, I'll believe you think so. [11]
- Well, it was wonderful to think of, and I says: "Why, I've heard talk about this Desert plenty of times, but I never knowed before how important she was. [5]
- There was a wonderful sunset beyond the Capitol, but Mr. Balch did not talk about the sunset, although Jethro was watching it from behind the curtains. [9]
- The young ladies wondered if it would be proper to go forward and talk with her. [4]
- And a talk with the right listener is so like an arm-in-arm walk in the moonlight with the soft heartbeat just felt through the folds of muslin and broadcloth! [6]
- Leicester was riding with the Knights Tilters, and as they cantered lightly past the dais, trailing their spears in obeisance, Elizabeth engaged herself in talk with Cecil, who was standing near, and appeared not to see the favourite. [11]
- The officers gazed with surprise at Pierre's huge stout figure and listened to his talk of Moscow and the position of our army, round which he had ridden. [2]
- After her talk with Pierre, Anna Mikhaylovna returned to the Rostovs' and went to bed. [2]
- After my talk with McCann I was sitting on the forecastle propped against the bitts of the Maria's anchor-chain, and looking at the swirling foam cast up by the tug's propeller. [9]
- He would talk with Kald, then go again among them all, and so pass out unsuspected and safe. [11]
- Before he meddled with it, it used to talk back like a mother-in-law, but now it was only fit for the deaf-and-dumb asylum. [5]
- You are friendly with him, are you not?--you talk with him now and then? [11]
- I must talk with him, and--you no longer have any thought of a parting? [10]
- And to talk with him as you would to anybody else! [10]
- I will talk with Gorgias early to-morrow morning. [10]
- Alma was left with Beaton near the piano, and he began to talk about the Dryfooses as he sat down on the piano-stool. [8]
- Go and talk with any professional man holding any of the medieval creeds, choosing one who wears upon his features the mark of inward and outward health, who looks cheerful, intelligent, and kindly, and see how all your prejudices melt away in his presence! [6]
- Mercy," she said, with a quick gesture at my protest, "there are few men with whom one might talk thus in so short an acquaintance. [9]
- The mill owner, with a glance at the boss, did nothing of the kind, but immediately began to talk rapidly to Mr. Merrill. [9]
- She did not wish a serious talk with her husband to-night, but she saw now that it was inevitable. [11]
- There was Lance Williams, he learned how to talk Choctaw here till one come and dug his grave for him. [5]
- I--I don't know--he will talk to you. [9]
- I trust you will remember this and make allowances for it as I talk to you. [9]
- The physician here will now take the melancholy tidings to the unfortunate widow, and then you can talk it all over with her at night. [10]
- But first we will have some more talk about that tobacco matter. [5]
- I reckon it will bring the old man to the point when I come to talk with him about who's to be put in Coonrod's place. [8]
- Lavilette and his wife were a little anxious; but Ferrol and Nicolas made excuses for her, and, in the wild talk and gossip about the Rebellion, attention was easily shifted from her. [11]
- Has he personages whose acts and talk correspond with their characters as described by him? [5]
- Among the guests whom I met in the grounds was a gentleman of the medical profession, whose name I had often heard, and whom I was very glad to see and talk with. [6]
- It was based wholly on a talk he had partly overheard between Barode Barouche and Luzanne in the house where she stayed and where he, Roudin, lodged. [11]
- I say, "Boys, who was this man Shakespeare, people talk so much about? [6]
- It isn't worth while, in these practical times, for people to talk about Indian poetry--there never was any in them--except in the Fenimore Cooper Indians. [5]
- The dread in which their sort was held was apparent in the fact that everybody gave them the road, and took their ribald insolences meekly, without venturing to talk back. [5]
- In the hut which the men had passed, the chief officers had gathered and were in animated talk over their tea about the events of the day and the maneuvers suggested for tomorrow. [2]
- The proverbs, of which his talk was full, were for the most part not the coarse and indecent saws soldiers employ, but those folk sayings which taken without a context seem so insignificant, but when used appositely suddenly acquire a significance of profound wisdom. [2]
- The spirit with which he had entered the room, however, remained with him, even when he saw Kaid summon to him some of the most fanatical members of the court circle, and engage them in talk for a moment. [11]
- The fact is, where you strike one man in the English settlements that you can understand, you wade through awful swarms that talk something you can't make head nor tail of. [5]
- It is there where he meets his associates, where they talk of the French Louisiane. [9]
- Oh, indeed yes; when you talk about your poor Roman and Egyptian day-before-yesterday antiquities, you should choose a time when the hoary Shadow Face of the Jungfrau is not by. [5]
- In this atmosphere, when we were prepared to take our ease, the talk was no longer of stocks, or railways, or schemes, but of books. [4]
- Her approval increased when he began to talk to her in his bantering way, as if he had known her always. [9]
- It's only talking, when all is said and done, and if she talks of me in the stocks, why I can talk of her in the stocks, which is a good deal funnier if we come to that. [12]
- But this is what I'll do, Natasha, I'll have a talk with Boris. [2]
- I hardly knew what I was going to talk about, but it went off in splendid style. [5]
- I can't say what I mean, and I think we'd better not talk about it. [4]
- So, when they were to travel to Egypt, Martina took it for granted that Heliodora must go with them, and that the flirtation which had made her favorite the talk of the town must, in Memphis, become courtship in earnest. [10]
- He said these were tedious people to talk with. [5]
- I thought you were only in love with the Ilium coal mine, which you and father talk about half the time. [5]
- All their faces were now shining with that latent warmth of feeling Pierre had noticed the day before and had fully understood after his talk with Prince Andrew. [2]
- From all sides were heard the footsteps and talk of the infantry, who were walking, driving past, and settling down all around. [2]
- The early proceedings were cordial, for the Governor and his suite made themselves agreeable, and talk flowed amiably. [11]
- After the ranks were broken, Major Sherman and the Judge went to talk to Captain Lyon and the Union Leader, who was now a Colonel of one of the Volunteer regiments. [9]
- The old prince went up to him and began to talk business. [2]
- Many times she went over again her talk with Howard, and she surprised herself by wondering what he had thought and felt since her departure. [9]
- An', Jane," he went on, almost in a whisper, "I reckon it'd be a good idea for us to talk low. [13]
- As the talk went on he foresaw that he was to be beaten; yet he persisted, for he loved a joy-wrangle, as he called it, with his mother. [11]
- I like very well to talk with gentlemen that play with my branch of entomology; I do not doubt it amused you, and if you want to see anything I can show you, I shall have no scruple in letting you see it. [6]
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