Sentence examples for conversation steering from inspiring English sources

Lettfish began to pester him with phone calls and invitations to lunch, with the conversation steering inevitably to Burgess and his merits.

When Mr. Geithner held a meeting last month with leaders of labor, civil rights and consumer groups to discuss overhauling financial regulation, he found the conversation steering to the Fed, according to several participants.

If you feel the conversation is steering toward something difficult (i.e. advanced particle physics), simply steer it in another direction.

"Well, we've agreed on that," interrupted Kurtz, wresting away control of the conversation and steering it back to Chris Christie.

Make light conversation while steering clear from more intimate topics.

These people can tend to dominate conversations, quickly steering them back to their own area of expertise.

In fact, they're sharp, smart and funny – steering conversation from Janet's black nail varnish and Corin's neon pink jeans to the successes and failures of the Obama administration.

Purpura says in most situations she has had to "help them along the way"–from deciding what to do and steering conversation to splitting the bill.

Purpura says in most situations she has had to "help them along the way"–from steering conversation to splitting the bill.

He now talked differently, consistently steering conversation to the metaphysical the types of discussions the rest of us had exhausted.

"One of the guys becomes super aggressive saying he is competitive and he will treat me right, the other is asking for my phone number telling me he is lying in bed and the conversation (without me steering it) is turning increasingly sexual in nature though I tell him I'm not comfortable with it….