Sentence examples for scraps of conversation from inspiring English sources

Scraps of conversation floated in the air.

In this book you'll also find exotic fables, humorous sketches, pastiche, political diatribes, anecdotes, doodles, scraps of conversation.

Noises off: scraps of conversation from the servants' quarters followed by the sinister drone of a lift descending to the ground floor with a ker-chunk.

I'd never noticed what an incredible racket was going on in my mind: to-do lists, scraps of conversation, ancient memories.

(Sulcas) ★ Doug Varone and Dancers (Monday through Wednesday) "Chapters From a Broken Novel" is made up of 22 vignettes inspired by stray phrases, bits of photos and scraps of conversation that have attracted the attention and stuck in the memory of a choreographer with an abiding interest in the mysteries of the ordinary and the dramas of everyday life.

In many ways, "Madness, Rack, and Honey" reads like a steroid-boosted version of a commonplace book, those thinking persons' scrapbooks that became popular in early modern Europe and contained quotations from the classics, scraps of conversation, poem fragments, recipes, proverbs and lists of every sort.

I heard scraps of conversations: "brain damage".... "He may die".

So, random memories, thoughts, scraps of conversations become the book.

I take my traditional Bengali kurta-pyjama out from the suitcase, fire up the GPS, arrive at the venue, sit around for some time making small talk with my wife and overhearing scraps of conversations about mortgage rates, while keeping a standard-issue smile plastered to my face, trying to avoid the jolly-faced lady floating about in a friendly way trying to sell "latest-design" saris from India.

By Carol Biba and Brendan Gill The New Yorker, January 5, 1946 P. 15 Scrap of conversation overheard on a 5th Ave.

Then you caught a scrap of conversation: "Hey, Mike, remember the jumper at the Carter Hotel who got impaled on the fence?