Sentence examples for at talking with from inspiring English sources

The phrase "at talking with" is not correct in standard written English.
It is not a commonly used expression and may confuse readers.
Example: "I am not very good at talking with strangers."
Alternatives: "at conversing with" or "at communicating with".

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Upstairs is mostly Itamar's domain because he's better at talking with customers, whereas I'm usually downstairs doing the admin.

"Paul would say, 'Oh God, not you again,' but he was the best at talking with the fans.

Even the least-educated Americans are likely to be more fluent in English — better at talking with bosses or communicating with customers.

Powell offers practical examples from a score of different attempts at "talking with terrorists", stories that would provide scripts for umpteen movies.

She became expert at talking with the blade in her mouth, so when she got into fights, she says, "You spit the razor right out into your hand and you cut 'em and they won't know what happened".

Furthermore, reading through his old interviews, it seems this is very much the new, improved, media-friendly Richard Ayoade: one journalist who encountered him just as the IT Crowd broke found him "cowering" behind his glasses and complaining that he was "terrible at talking, with words".

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They described feeling talked "at" rather than being talked "with", and felt that their style was too didactic, lecturing or like classroom teaching.

On Nov. 11, 2000, Mrs. Zhang said, she was at home talking with a friend when the police arrived.

She also spent Saturdays at Saks talking with customers about what they liked and disliked.

She spent Saturdays at Saks talking with customers about what they liked and disliked.

I only looked at Jeremy Lin talking with the blonde woman.

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