Sentence examples for chitchat by from inspiring English sources
Suddenly Tyrone breaks into the awkward chitchat by snarling at Jessica that Jason "thinks you're really hot".
One coping strategy, care of Christopher Groscurth, an instructional consultant at the University of Michigan with a Ph.D. in interpersonal communication: Bypass the painful chitchat by steering the conversation to project goals and how the person's golden Roledex could help your cause.
When I imagined the luck of being able to work alone from home, and not have to chitchat by the water cooler every day, or make small talk in the hall, or smile at someone when I was in a bad mood, I thought remote life would be perfect for me.
While Mr. Hazzard is chummy with all of them, he is especially interested in sharing missions and chitchatting (by way of instant text and voice messaging) with joystick jocks he has known all his life.
The study involved college students who were asked to solve anagrams while extraneous chitchat (either by cellphone or between two people) took place in the room.
Another way of circumventing — or, at least, limiting — this deconstructionist chitchat is by a de-neutered effort of will or an impeccable professional background outside the political arena altogether.
This is a middle-aged person's mental walkabou, one of those cognitive flights that occur during large gatherings like work meetings and cocktail parties, or small ones like this after-work chitchat here by the elevator.
Parental chitchat is muted by the cavernous space.
"With the running time swamped by mindless chitchat, little is left for the crash-and-burn action," writes Ben Cobb of Channel 4 Film.
Helped along by online chitchat, cable marathons and a cast of four celebrity coaches, "The Voice" is in the midst of a crescendo, as this Tuesday's show starts a climactic period of live broadcasts and live rejections of contestants.
He was even-tempered, conscientious and never distracted by idle chitchat with colleagues, his former boss said, adding that the only thing he ever talked about was the price of fish.
