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Example sentences for "talked about"

  • We talked about what we would do when we were married--where we should live, and all that.

  • When we had that ride, to breakfast with Mollie, we talked about it.

  • The United States Constitution is a very important document, a good, sound document, but it is talked about a great deal more than it is read.

  • I have heard it talked about a good deal, and am sufficiently well acquainted with it to justify my own mind in utterly rejecting all claims made for its divine origin.

  • While I was still wearing an officer’s uniform after my duel, I talked about servants in general society, and I remember every one was amazed at me.

  • Would you believe it, when he was feverish he talked about you in delirium.

  • Yes, but he talked about it before he had formed a plan, when he had only the desire, only the impulse to it.

  • And it was three thousand he talked about .

  • So, Miss Katherine Bedford, I'd say the Americas are about to see those stormy times we talked about once.

  • I think it's time we talked about cavalry.

  • Any sign of that African we talked about?

  • And in hushed tones we talked about him, recalling to mind certain sayings, certain formulas of his, those startling maxims which are like jets of flame flung, in a few words, into the darkness of the Unknown Life.

  • He would be talked about, approved, congratulated.

  • He talked about marriages, births and deaths, then about the fall in the price of grain and the latest news about cattle.

  • Who ever reads books in the City, or how often does one hear them talked about at a Club?

  • If I talked about it, I should have to confine myself to theories and--and dreams.

  • And you wouldn't care to be talked about yourself, either," she added vehemently.

  • I did not read the book because I was sick and tired of the author and his nonsense, but I imbibed, in spite of myself, something of the story and its moral from hearing it talked about.

  • The popping of a pistol at odd hours in the backyard of the Institute was a phenomenon more than sufficiently remarkable to be talked about in Rockland.

  • The landlord of the Anchor Tavern, now the head of the boarding-house, talked about Maurice, as everybody in the village did at one time or another.

  • He talked about having a pistol, in case he were attacked by any of the ruffians who are so numerous in the city, but Mr. Gridley told him, No!

  • The thing is too remote to be talked about almost.

  • There were things in the lives of both too sacred to be talked about.

  • For several days little else was talked about.

  • The calamity was too great to be talked about, too overwhelming to be shaped into words.

  • He talked about proofs, evidence, indisputable official documents and such.

  • I have heard those voices, I talked about earlier, also in the cell, screaming inside of me.

  • Nobody likes to be talked about, especially in Rome, where it's the end of everything.

  • Nobody likes to be talked about," said the Princess, "especially in Rome, where it is the end of everything.

  • We talked about Emerson, whom she seems to have been well acquainted with while he was in England; and she mentioned that Miss Martineau had given him a lock of hair; it was not her own hair, but a mummy's.

  • While business was going forward, the magistrate, Mr. Mansfield, talked about a fancy ball at which he had been present the evening before, and of other matters grave and gay.

  • So he will, I dare say; but mayn't there be rasons why he don't wish to have it talked about yet?

  • Indeed, Father John, when I do have one, I hope I shall manage better than to be talked about as much as she is, any way.

  • All the way home on the train Duncan and I talked about it.

  • Do you remember the place you always talked about--up in the hills?

  • I can't begin to tell you what we talked about.

  • She stooped over the flowers and talked about them as if they were children.

  • Everybody as knowed about Mester Craven knowed there was a little lad as was like to be a cripple, an' they knowed Mester Craven didn't like him to be talked about.

  • So for the remainder of the sitting they talked, neither quite naturally, since both were thinking of the one subject that could not be talked about, on strictly public topics.

  • Like most artists, Evelyn had a somewhat egoistic nature, and since his personality was so graceful and interesting, it followed that many people found his talk equally so, especially when he talked about himself.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both hemispheres; both officers and men; company commander; desperate effort; dine here; grand council; great throb; laws were; least half; left over; little glass; live through; more precious; name appears; quite content; several inches; shall receive the gift; sharp lookout; talked about; talked much; thou shalt surely die; work which; worthy friend