Sentence examples for stopping conversation from inspiring English sources

The restaurant is in a sweet old building along Hopewell' main street, near antique stores and within howling distance of the town' fire alarm, which sounded three times on the two nights that we visited, stopping conversation for its duration.

Planes roar every few minutes 100 metres over the heads of a handful of customers eating lunch or nursing pints, stopping conversations in their tracks.

The dance is so lovely that it stops conversation, at least for a little while.

Outside the conferences, death is the unwelcome, awkward visitor who stops conversation.

We had settled in with our warm, house-made pretzel rolls and breadsticks when suddenly, a loud crash stopped conversation.

Dark and glossy with duck fat, sweet from slow braising, the ragù can stop conversation all by itself.

Abhorrence for a person's views should not stop conversation, Corbyn insists, unless, it would appear, the person happens to be Israeli.

The fruit crowning a pineapple-black currant tart was glossy, sweet and tangy; a chocolate truffle tort with wild berries was so intense it stopped conversation.

A raspberry cheesecake was light and fresh, and the chocolate truffle tort with wild berries was so intense it stopped conversation.

Naturally, this is part of his political appeal: politicians are always careful to say nothing offensive, whereas Kinky is careful to always say something offensive; he provokes not to stop conversation but to start it.

Either way, it's the kind of humble winter meal that won't stop conversation when you serve it — giving you plenty of time to talk about a good book.