Sentence examples for conversation phrasing from inspiring English sources

And there's "The Dangling Conversation" phrasing that accompanies it.

But at some real estate firms, brokers are forewarned not to include in listings, or even mention in conversation, phrases that even the most prejudiced New York landlords would be hard pressed to think up, like "Appalachian, no" or "Hungarian, no".

As in films such as David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive" or Francis Ford Coppola's "The Conversation," phrases and images that flit through Constance's increasingly fragmented consciousness turn out to have unexpected nuances, both sinister and benign.

HOLLY WEEKS: If we use tone for all of the nonverbal part of the conversation, then phrasing is word choice.

As a starting point for playful dinner-party conversation the phrase has its merits, but, as a clue to understanding the play, it is remarkably unhelpful.

Be'Tipul does mean "in treatment", but in more casual conversation, the phrase means "it's been taken care of" or "it's all under control" - in answer, say, to whether a bill has been paid.

Brittany Thornton, a 14-year-old in Screven, Ga., said that she and her friends buy the kind of logo shirts they see teenagers wearing on shows such as MTV's "Laguna Beach" and sprinkle their conversation with phrases like "freakin' idiot" made popular by fictional Idaho high school student Napoleon Dynamite.

He is prone, even in casual conversation, to phrases such as "the oppositional-mirror quality exists on a micro and macro level to form concrete indicators of character," or "only ephemera of culture separate us, the walls our egos create as they try to move through those barriers". It wasn't an easy path from the auto-didacticism of Pizzolatto's youth to Hollywood It status.

Spend longer than an hour in here and you'll start talking with your hands swooping through the air like a pilot and peppering your conversation with phrases like "ground loop" and "radar profile". You might even want to take a few minutes to visit the gift shop next door (called Over-Flo's--it's where those waiting for a table go on weekends) and browse for an aviation-related gift or two.

Twitter has been clamping down on hate speech after it refreshed its "hateful conduct policy" and introduced new tools to allow users to mute specific conversations or phrases from their notifications.

Since I got home from China last week, I've found myself in a lot of conversations where phrases like "the next Silicon Valley," or "just like Silicon Valley used to be," keep coming up.