Sentence examples for extraneous conversation from inspiring English sources

"Please Give" has no room for extraneous conversation — and if its characters have ever had any, nothing in their strict definitions allows them to account for it.

He rarely allows the machinery of plot to distract him from the tangents of talk, and the first part of "Blue" is preoccupied with what seem to be extraneous, trivial arguments and conversations.

Ms. Stewart pretended to be part of the conversation "by making extraneous comments such as 'chocolate' and 'heart attack,' " the prosecutors said.

Now, I'm totally in favor of excising extraneous marketing lingo from IT conversations.

"I was about to come back and ask a specific question to find out more about Mr Corbyn's position but because you decided to move on to Nato and extraneous matters that had nothing to do with our conversation, I've run out of time," he said.

And then there's the whole business of ads or what Facebook calls "sponsored messages," which will mean you have even more extraneous stuff to wade through just to get those meaningful conversations.

It's very hard to find the time to block out all the extraneous noise and issues of the world and to sit down and have a thoughtful conversation with another person.

Then, as if out of nowhere, the conversation between Iago and Otello is interrupted by what would appear to be an extraneous choral interlude.

For recording a conversation indoors, the preferred microphone is sensitive in a particular direction in order to reduce extraneous noises from the side and rear.

The effort is extraneous.

Slushy details are extraneous.