Sentence examples for conversation falls from inspiring English sources

The conversation falls into five categories.

At these moments, our conversation falls into deep breaths and pauses, as she swallows down tears.

On Christmas Day, when my brother and sister arrive with their white families, and I try to talk about what's going on in America with regard to race, the conversation falls to an awkward hush, and the gingerbread comes crumbling down.

The organizers insisted we all write this down and that way, we can use it in case conversation falls flat with any of the 10 dates we'd meet that night.

• To the Editor: Re "Comedian's Conversation Falls Flat at 92nd Street Y" (news article, Dec. 2): Steve Martin is much more funny when he's being funny.

Obviously our conversation fell somewhat short of resolving these issues.

I waited patiently until the conversation fell silent.

The game went down to the final play, but the Yale sophomore Patrick Witt's pass for the tying 2-point conversation fell incomplete, and Cornell won, 14-12.Williams replaced Jack Siedlecki, who retired after 12 seasons as Yale's coach.

When I first arrived, some of my attempts at small talk and joking conversation fell flat when she asked me to repeat myself, or to specify exactly what I meant.

As the conversation fell into awkward silence, Mr. Hoving, never at a loss for hyperbole, exclaimed, "We're in awe of the great Zagat!" In an aside, Mrs. Zagat mentioned that every person who contributes to the survey buys an average of six copies, because, she said, "everyone thinks they came up with 'crowded and noisy.' " Now, that's funny.

But the conversation fell flat after that.