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Example sentences for "talking"

Lexicographically close words:
talkes; talkest; talketh; talkie; talkin; talks; talkt; talky; tall; tallage
  1. But there was no need of a reply, as their voices were already audible from below, talking with Mrs. McGuire.

  2. His livelier comrade cheered him up, and Giacomo always felt better after talking with Phil.

  3. He had seen him talking to the little fiddler.

  4. Having the foregoing points clearly in mind, I spent the rest of the day before the inquest in talking to various persons and in going over my story, testing it link by link.

  5. Still tirelessly talking in his measured drawl, Mr. Bunner led Trent downstairs and through the house to the garage at the back.

  6. So you think he has been talking me round!

  7. He is talking from the house down by Bishopsbridge, so it will be necessary to speak clearly.

  8. If you ask me for details, it struck me they were talking about something important, because I heard Mr. Manderson say something when they came in through the back entrance.

  9. He called his brother, his father, and a woman of the village who was talking to him at the moment.

  10. Then the exertion of talking seemed to be too much for him, and he closed his eyes again.

  11. Mr. Williamson was talking to some other members of the board, in his private office, when the boys entered the store.

  12. I was talking to a detective at the desk, one who comes in here every once in a while to see if there are any suspicious characters.

  13. In spite of the excitement caused by the proprietor's entrance into his room and the loud talking that followed the accusation, none of the other lodgers had gotten up.

  14. About the two hundred shares of stock that the inspector was talking about?

  15. The three chums were standing in front of the drug store talking of their prospective trip when a newsboy ran past calling: "Extra!

  16. Then, while the angry men were still talking to the postal inspector, Ned turned and hurried off.

  17. The inspector was talking to a policeman, and Ned overheard the bluecoat ask: "Have you sent the telegram?

  18. While talking with Madame Leseigneur, for Hippolyte called her so, on the chance of being right, he examined the room, but unobtrusively and by stealth.

  19. Tonpit’s mode of address, even when talking to Elsie, was harsh.

  20. Now you’re talking like a man of sense,” warmly approved Polcher, clapping him heartily on the shoulder.

  21. He stands at the window of the cabin, talking with the white man,” answered the warrior.

  22. And he knows what he is talking about,” said Sevier.

  23. Come, now, you're talking like a mad girl.

  24. Oh, by the way, Fritz, talking of old times, do you remember the night you spent at the house of old Franz Wenzel the Scharfrichter?

  25. The men began talking together, so I resolved to listen--to learn, if possible, what they were going to do with me.

  26. The affair caused much gossip and surmise, and much time was lost in loud talking and angry gesticulations.

  27. It's no good talking about that now, George," he said, eyeing him with sly enjoyment.

  28. However, it's no use talking about that now.

  29. In 1895 all the English-speaking world that heeds letters was talking of the Celtic Renaissance, so quickly did news of it find its way to men, when it was once more than whispered of abroad.

  30. But we are talking of things that are fast fading away!

  31. While he was yet talking Lisa entered the tent, under the pretext of coming to borrow a towing line.

  32. Olive was talking to the strange gentleman, for whose name no one had thought to inquire, and Dr.

  33. Only I came home early one day, when the girls didn't know it, and I heard them talking about me.

  34. All I know is that one is Kittie and the other Kat, and that I never know which is which when I am talking to them, never having had time to study them up.

  35. Everybody was there, and everybody was laughing and talking merrily, and everybody had a word of greeting for the new arrivals.

  36. If you persist in talking like that, I shall not feel safe in your house," said Myra.

  37. Don Carlos was talking at the time, and he may not have realised what he was doing.

  38. Incidentally, the man to whom she is talking might be interested in your remark about the necessity for a special bit and snaffle.

  39. Tony has been talking strangely, and Don Carlos is reticent about what happened at the bandit's lair, but I suppose it was he who rescued you.

  40. It seemed more like a nightmare than actuality that she should be sitting in a pitch-dark car, talking of love and Don Carlos to a Spanish outlaw who had captured her, and whose arm encircled her waist.

  41. You know how often one fiddles with something while one is talking or thinking.

  42. I promise you, Myra, I shall be as silent as a Trappist monk, so far as talking love to you is concerned," Don Carlos assured her.

  43. You are talking like a character in an old-fashioned melodrama.

  44. I suppose the wisest and safest course will be to make no reference whatever to the letter, and to pretend I don't know what he is talking about if Don Carlos has the cheek to refer to it," Myra soliloquised, as she dressed.

  45. I say, Lady Fermanagh, don't tell Myra I've been talking to you about her.

  46. But if you will promise to be sensible and refrain from talking extravagant nonsense, you may take me in to supper.

  47. My dear Myra, what on earth are you talking about?

  48. They were gesticulating wildly; and although I could not understand what they were talking about, I judged from the frown of the Chief that something serious was the matter.

  49. He came aboard to shake hands with everyone and after a long period of talking pulled the cord leading to the steam-whistle, giving the official signal for departure.

  50. However, I will relate an incident which occurred while I lived at Floresta, and in which I have absolute faith, as I had the opportunity of talking to the persons involved in the affair.

  51. He prefers talking about the characteristics of race, the physical conformation of the country, or the genius of civilization, which abridges his own labors, and satisfies his reader far better at less cost.

  52. I doubt whether men were more virtuous in aristocratic ages than in others; but they were incessantly talking of the beauties of virtue, and its utility was only studied in secret.

  53. I have no guest-rooms to speak of; and a guest is always in my study when I want to be there, talking when I want to work, or wanting to smoke at inconvenient times.

  54. The only cure is frankness and simplicity; and one should practise the art of talking simply and directly among congenial people of what one admires and believes in.

  55. We were talking the other day about this very point, and he said musingly, "It is a very good rule in this world not to ask for anything unless you are pretty sure to get it.

  56. I have had supper with the boys, and I have been walking about since and talking to them--the nicest part of my work.

  57. The little chimney of the van smokes, and I hear the voices of guards and shunters talking cheerily together.

  58. Talking of woman's soul, how is Lady Earlscourt?

  59. Ella; "and what an apt commentary upon the subject we were talking about, Phyllis!

  60. What in the world could she mean by talking about the man being gone from her?

  61. People were talking at dinner about your having massacred the natives with dynamite--you did, you know, Mr. Courtland.

  62. I saw you talking with Mr. Courtland after the first production of 'Cagliostro.

  63. That was what was dinning in her ears all the time Ella had been talking in the carriage.

  64. All she felt was that she had been talking face to face with a man.

  65. Was it about God you and he have been talking lately?

  66. While they were talking mint juleps were brought in, which Jackson declined, saying, "I never touch strong drink.

  67. You don't want me to hear what you are talking about.

  68. Thus the simple-hearted, modest, unassuming old man sat with his long fig-stem Powhatan clay pipe in his mouth, smoking and talking and making history for a little child who never forgot the stories he told.

  69. A fear came into my heart that I was talking too much.

  70. I was absolutely sure that they were talking of me and trembled with a presentiment of coming evil.

  71. He said "Let's do it," as if the success of the project depended upon the one to whom he was talking rather than on his own ability.

  72. What were you and Sam talking about, Penrod?

  73. I walked over to Poplar Cove and sat around the post-office and store, talking with the chawbacons that came in to trade.

  74. The reason, sir, I can speak the names so pat, is that my father learnt them by heart afterward from the trumpeter, who was always talking about Mayorga and Rueda and Bennyventy.

  75. He had the most appealing look in his eyes I ever saw on the face of a dumb or a talking brute.

  76. My friend and I were this moment talking about you.

  77. Piney was actually talking in an impulsive, girlish fashion to the Duchess, who was listening with an interest and animation she had not shown for many days.

  78. She appeared to be talking to it; and it was not long before Mrs. Tretherick observed that she was rehearsing the interview of a half-hour before.

  79. He was just outside talking with a young girl.

  80. Ah, but you must not pout in that pretty way, or else I cannot help talking to you," whispered the captain.

  81. But if we had been seen talking or planning they would have been upon our trail at once.

  82. He will see you talking to me, and by hook or crook you must introduce him to me.

  83. We then fell to pacing the deck together, talking of the future and all it promised for us.

  84. Because I wanted to find out how he was in the habit of talking about me.

  85. But perhaps I am talking in too familiar a strain about your friend?

  86. After he had left us Janet and I sat talking late into the night, and when we separated at her bedroom door, it was with a heartfelt wish that "good luck" might attend us on the morrow.

  87. His aunt and an old crony were talking in the kitchen; the crony was old, and Catherine, supposing Roger was out of the house, was talking loudly in that horrible voice of hers with still more horrible zest and satisfaction.

  88. Yet I cannot resist the delight of being with her, of talking to her, of watching her wonderful face.

  89. She told us so frankly and let it be understood that when I was talking to her and her heliotrope shawl was allowed to slip under one arm it was a sign that we were not to be interrupted.

  90. She was talking to Aunt Grace; but her eyes fell on me.

  91. Not that I like talking business at any time.

  92. Seems to me that as long as Abel Armstrong can stride up and down in that garden of his, reciting poetry and speeches, or talking to that yaller cat of his as if it was a human, he doesn't care much how the world wags on.

  93. But she don't like talking somehow--dunno why.

  94. You'll oblige me, Charlotte, by not talking about her.

  95. I tell you, when I next met the Twin Sailors it was me did the talking then.

  96. What on earth is the child talking about?

  97. I waylaid Edna, who was passing at that time, and said, "Edna I want you to introduce me to the girl who is talking to your mother.

  98. He invariably began talking before he was through the window, and his first words were unfailingly the same.

  99. Ah, now she could see better--he was talking to the Merediths.

  100. Billie found herself talking as freely as she talked with her three friends.

  101. Taking the curved path to the foot of the small embankment, the next moment Billie came full upon Nancy and Yoritomo Ito talking earnestly together.

  102. In the meantime, Nicholas Grimm was talking to Billie and Elinor.

  103. He was talking to her in a low intense voice and she was smiling and dimpling as usual.

  104. Mary, whose method of talking with the Japanese was to preserve only the framework of a sentence and drop all articles and small words.

  105. Coleman was talking on the phone, his voice occasionally rising in a petulant whine.


  106. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "talking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    talking about; talking nonsense