Sentence examples for conversation failed from inspiring English sources

When, after a while, the conversation failed to find a natural end, Mr. Jarvis resorted to the road warrior's tried-and-true trick: He donned his headphones.

But their contributions to the conversation failed to get it going, and most of the topical references — Hurricane Sandy, Syria, the HSBC money-laundering scandal — felt forced.

Bush administration officials said the conversation failed to resolve the issue of Turkey's desire for its troops to go into northern Iraq.

Not one conversation failed to include joke-swapping about all the celebs we would run into at the grocery store and P.T.A. meetings.

Going on the date in London's St Paul's after losing at the Broncos, Hirst had another uncomfortable 80 minutes or so as the conversation failed to flow.

Food in the chalet is delicious but conversation fails to hit any critical velocity.

When Giovanni and Paola stop sleeping together, and conversation fails between them, they are following a track that has been trodden by generations of parents split by the death of a child.

Divorce: A Failed Conversation In his radical address to Parliament in 1643, "Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce," John Milton argued that "in God's intention a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and the noblest end of marriage," and that divorce is not only necessary but right when that special conversation fails.

But this conversation fails to consider the ways in which the Olympic Games violate human rights everywhere they are held.

As I described here, the conversation fails to meet the mark on the dimensions of the "I" (self), the "We" (relationship) and the "It" (task).

Don't give up if the first try at a conversation fails miserably.