Sentence examples for conversational gambit from inspiring English sources

Billy didn't respond to this conversational gambit.

Each conversational gambit becomes a shaky aria of misplaced notes.

Our only conversational gambit was: "Isn't he amazing?" Friends were mostly delighted, but also slightly appalled.

On the other hand, a tempting conversational gambit like "how was your day?" may not reveal the whole truth.

It has served as such a good conversational gambit that she can't imagine not having a signature.

"My read is, it was a conversational gambit — he wanted to appear tough," the U.S. official said.

According to her friends, Naomi's most frequent opening conversational gambits were "porn, dildos and wanking".

Not much time for the gym then, right?" At which point, I predict your conversational gambits will shift, irretrievably, to the trials of parenthood.

You are performing "routines" - preprocessed conversational gambits or anecdotes (false or true, it doesn't matter) that are shared on the internet, designed to make the speaker seem interesting, funny and respected.

The two are old flames, and pretty soon they are doing a bit of rekindling - huddling together over dinner and indulging in the sort of conversational gambits used only by the inhabitants of mid-market novels, designed to illustrate subtly what glamorous, tragic creatures they are.

A reasonably maintained wooden fence or a policeman on the beat, let alone a concealed safe in a locked office in a secure building (and which building, and which office?) would have been more than enough to see off some parachuted Nazi unfortunate who has been wasting months memorising Cockney slang, cricket scores and conversational gambits about the British monarchy.