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Example sentences for "general conversation"

  • Some sort of order must be imperceptibly if not unconsciously maintained, or the sentences clash in general conversation.

  • It is this promoting of general conversation which is the backbone of all good talk.

  • General conversation is as much a part of the repast as the viands; and wo to the unwary mortals who, tempted by short distances, start to chatter among themselves.

  • Political and religious topics are not in good taste in general conversation.

  • It is almost as bad to endeavor to draw one person from a general conversation into a tete-a-tete discussion.

  • Religion is a subject too apt to lead to long arguments if not to positive altercation to be the subject of general conversation.

  • It has long been felt by men that if women could be more freely initiated into great subjects the interest of general conversation would be much increased.

  • George Alden's act of heroism was the theme of general conversation, and prayers for his recovery sprang spontaneously from the hearts of men who had seldom prayed before.

  • Walter Mannis and Miss Belle Hamblin was soon the theme of general conversation.

  • As day after day passed the excitement increased, and his disappearance became the theme of general conversation.

  • Never, during a general conversation, endeavor to concentrate the attention wholly upon yourself.

  • It is quite as rude to enter into conversation with one of a group, and endeavor to draw him out of the circle of general conversation to talk with you alone.

  • In a general conversation, never speak when another person is speaking, and never try by raising your own voice to drown that of another.

  • It is extremely rude and pedantic, when engaged in general conversation, to make quotations in a foreign language.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    general assessment; general battle; general character; general conceptions; general confession; general culture; general emancipation; general favourite; general ideas; general level; general manager; general practitioner; general symptoms; general term; general theory; general verdict; generally believed; generally considered; generally distributed; generally recognised; generally speaking; horizontal position; little shudder; shaped mark; strict neutrality; three hundred and twenty