Sentence examples for instigate a conversation from inspiring English sources

Having to work out a way to instigate a conversation that wouldn't blow my cover was harder still.

"We wanted to make them speak, and instigate a conversation where they are on an equal footing".

Lay started the page in an attempt to instigate a conversation surrounding a female's sexual freedom in Brazilian society.

Remember when you managed to instigate a conversation with that impossibly attractive person at the bar and they inexplicably asked if you fancied going for a fag.

One participant recommended that nurses should "be specific in their care plan and write that you can say 'miss your mother' if that particularly is reported by the patient, so one might instigate a conversation about the individual's past".

This will help instigate a conversation.

I feel embarrassed the next day when I see him and can't look him in the eye, but he instigates a conversation and our relationship resumes as it had been before.

Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, praised the White House for showing "tremendous leadership" and for instigating a conversation that "so many Americans have been calling for in the wake of Aurora, Newtown, and the 32 gun murders that happen every day in our country".

After touching off a scuffle in a Times Square porn house, he creates an uproar in a nearby bar by stuffing a $20 bill in a lush's bra, instigates a conversation with two police officers, steals Albert's wallet and runs off to another bar where the police are attracted to yet another brawl, scales a fence at 2 a.m. and invades a yacht because he insists Frank Sinatra is on board singing.

The report has instigated a conversation within the dance community.

(Urban midwife 6)" " "(weighing)… instigates a conversation sometimes at each visit, whereas here women don't get weighed as a general rule.