Sentence examples for conversational currency from inspiring English sources
Jagger sightings were conversational currency.
The conversational currency is debauched, and that, in turn, is fueling the popularity of weblogs.
While Americans hide their vacations from co-workers, in Britain, where life can take on the feeling of a series of sunny escapes punctuated by refractory periods, holidays are as common a conversational currency as sports.
Many genuine football fans are feeling dispossessed, angry that something they regard as their own has become the conversational currency of outsiders, considered ignorant in the matter and therefore false or fake fans.
Certainly, it is common conversational currency among the real-life breeds of lions and climbers who inspired this latest effort from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Heidi Chronicles".
For more on Jagger and the Rolling Stones, check out John Seabrook on the origins of "Satisfaction"; Pauline Kael on "Gimme Shelter"; George W. S. Trow on the founder of Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun; David Remnick on Keith Richards's memoir, "Life"; and Nick Paumgarten on his experience at Davos, where "Jagger sightings were conversational currency".
"I think the lump-sum payout of buzz for 'House of Cards' flooded the conversational channels in a way that squandered the cultural currency it could have had," suggested Simon Dumenco, who writes the Media Guy column for Advertising Age.
Sarcastic, conversational, honest, subdued.
SOUND LEVEL Conversational.
It's very conversational.
