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Example sentences for "talking about"

  • And what a talking about it must be going on everywhere to-day!

  • And in talking about 'taking the consequences,' he's patting his personal sacrifice on the back and forgetting all about her and the sacrifice he's putting her to.

  • And I descended to dinner a little late (as too often) to feel instantly in the air that they had been talking about me.

  • I fancy, sir, that Doctor Beaugarcon knows what he is talking about.

  • You don't know what you're talking about.

  • But what's the sense in talking about it?

  • When it fails to be so he is either lying, or he himself knows that he is not expressing himself as he ought to make us correctly understand what he is talking about.

  • It naturally is not necessary to ask whether a narrator has ever seen the things he speaks of, nor to convince oneself in examination that the person in question knows accurately what he is talking about.

  • Anybody who does this even mildly and unnoticeably means harm to the person he is talking about.

  • Talking about them as these girls did was sillier still.

  • He and Mrs. Hobbs were conversing briskly enough and, although Mary-'Gusta could catch only a word or two at intervals, she was perfectly sure they were talking about her.

  • And you needn't try to change the subject or to pretend I don't know what I am talking about.

  • So they went on talking about dancers, fights, drinking, demireps, until Macmurdo came down and joined the boys and the conversation.

  • I don't know what you're talking about, John.

  • I don't in the least know what you're talking about.

  • You've lost your temper, you don't know what you're talking about.

  • Sim 'Arness knows what he's talking about.

  • He knew not only what they were likely to be talking about, but the part each one would take in the discussion.

  • It would take an omniscient Deity to know what you're talking about.

  • They began, obliquely, by talking about Mrs. Lemuel Struthers.

  • The day after the conversation which I have been reporting we were together in the pastures and fell to talking about France, as usual.

  • And so she went on talking about it and growing more and more troubled about it, until one could see that it was filling all her mind.

  • Do you understand what I am talking about?

  • Could she understand what she was talking about?

  • But this is neither here nor there; - I'm talking about an old arm-chair.

  • The poor creature does not know what he is talking about, when he abuses this noblest of institutions.

  • I can't conceive, my dear, what you're talking about!

  • Oh, that everything's grave for 'you' is what we take for granted and are fundamentally talking about.

  • It's exactly my luck that I'm talking about.

  • You must admit I understand what I am talking about.

  • Vinteuil must be blinded by love not to see what everyone is talking about, and to let his daughter--a man who is horrified if you use a word in the wrong sense--bring a woman like that to live under his roof.

  • But the fact is, you don't know what you're talking about to-night.

  • I DON'T sit up because I may have the pleasure of talking about it; and you're an ungrateful, unfeeling creature to say so.

  • I like your innocence, Mr. Caudle; not knowing what I'm talking about.

  • She'll cool down after a while, but just at present she don't know what she's talking about.

  • I would deny no one the pleasure of talking about me.

  • You come in on a fellow with some damned gossip a lot of old cats have been telling in their sewing society and accuse him of it before he knows what you're talking about.

  • Talking about this, I was for a long time possessed with the desire to make myself a kind of paper, and I frequently experimented with the fibres of a certain kind of tree.

  • Talking about snakes, one day I had a narrow escape from one of these ungrateful reptiles.

  • Talking about spear-heads, in the ranges where I met Jacky Jacky there was a quarry of that kind of stone which was used for the making of war and other implements.

  • Talking about noses, it was to me a remarkable fact, that the blacks consider a warrior with a big nose and large distended nostrils a man possessed of great staying power.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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