Sentence examples for halt conversation from inspiring English sources

Who knew that a BLT could halt conversation, thanks to its thick whole-wheat bread and summery, bright red tomatoes?

If I am driving, I need to turn off the radio and halt conversation in any difficult passage.

"That's near Nebraska, isn't it?" Omaha is one of those ultimate flyover places, an urban Podunk so vaguely situated in coastal Americans' mental maps that the mere mention of it can actually halt conversation.

That can halt conversations, agitate us when we're trying to relax, and keep us from noticing the beauty of the world around us at that very moment.

She and Keyuk engaged in a halting conversation about food, farming, and family heritage.

During my first shift, I witnessed a halting conversation between a counsellor and a young girl with body dysmorphia.

I turned to Madiba and said: 'You don't have to answer that, Khulu (grandfather).'" She goes on to describe a halting conversation between Mandela and Clarkson and fellow Top Gear presenter James May.

He was quieter, shyer, and even more awkward this hot morning, knowing as well himself that the moment had arrived, even before she turned to him, midway through a ridiculous halting conversation about dragon-flies peculiar to the vicinity, and kissed him so hard and viciously she might have drawn blood.

One of Potter's most brilliant ploys for halting conversation was to announce, "I have had 140 days of illness in my life".

There was no acknowledgment, throughout our halting conversation, of the strange location of our encounter or of the uses to which it was almost exclusively put, so that speaking to him I felt an anxiety made up of equal parts desire and unease at the mystery of his presence and purpose.

The static pacing that the director, Jade King Carroll, tolerates may reflect the depiction of halting conversations, but when Ms. Giles's charged performance follows it, "Spit" seems to have lacked any urgency at all.