Sentence examples for kick off a conversation from inspiring English sources

On Tuesday afternoons we'll kick off a conversation on a show, and then throw things over to you.

A cute dog makes a great prop, and paying a compliment or making someone laugh is a sure-fire way to kick off a conversation.

In my experience, the mere mention of a chocolate bar or biscuit from the past 30 years – especially if said snack is no longer on sale – will similarly kick off a conversation that will run and run.

The ability to kick off a conversation group is also currently in invitation-only mode, and appears to require a Yahoo login to get started for now.

(Read: I'm at the conference coffee table and about to kick off a conversation with the guy next to me, dear iPhone, please help me come up with some solid discussion topics).

However, the feature is fairly bare bones – there isn't a way to share media like stickers, photos or videos in the Messages section at this time, which would be a good way to kick off a conversation with a new friend (e.g. "Here's that picture you wanted!").

As an aside, the "Okay Google" verbiage already somehow seems natural, despite the fact that I literally never use that same sentence construction to address real humans or in general conversation, at least as a way to kick-off a conversation.

And there, in a single tweet on Tuesday, rapper Nicki Minaj kicked off a conversation about race, feminism, and the music industry that might have been ignored had it not been derailed by the planet's biggest pop star, Taylor Swift.

Four conservative Republican senators kicked off a conversation Thursday on changes to Medicare, releasing a proposal that would end the federal fee-for-service insurance program in 2014 and enroll all recipients into the health insurance plan now offered to federal employees.

The BBC kicked off a conversation about the "movement" by asking, "Has feminism become unnecessary and irrelevant?" The expected conservative hacks have come out, with the National Review Online bashing the "hostile" feminist responses and Rush Limbaugh saying "pictures of these babes" are "really, really great to see".

This kicked off a conversation on the way that success can affect the psychology of many performers.