Sentence examples for traded compliments. from inspiring English sources

The two traded compliments for four minutes straight.

He shook hands and traded compliments with important-looking men in expensive-looking suits.

The pair traded compliments until Crystal said: "And I know you hate sentiment, but … you're my best friend on television".

The civil conversation on stage, where candidates traded compliments and listened respectfully to one another, belied the fierce competition that is under way in the pursuit of evangelical voters.

And he traded compliments with the president on education reform, praising Mr. Bush for being committed to "improving our public schools and creating accountability with regard to the money we're already spending, not just throwing more money at them".

Selvaggio and McCarty first traded compliments, each suggesting that the other was the reason their restaurants have become local institutions.

Barack Obama, halfway through his annual two-week getaway on the Massachusetts island, teed off in the afternoon with former president Bill Clinton, trading compliments on the first hole.

On what was billed as his last show, Garrison Keillor, host of "A Prairie Home Companion" got a call from President Barack Obama and they traded extensive compliments, with Keillor telling Obama he was "the coolest president".

Backstage, in a sacristy transformed into a green room, an easy camaraderie settles in – shared coffee and smokes, smudging sage before the show, warming up guitars, trading compliments ("John, your songs are so gentle," Saddleback exudes to Angaiak).

Despite receiving a devastating federal report on brutality inside the jails, she held a friendly press conference with Arpaio in which she announced the settlement of the case against him and, according to the Arizona Republic, passed the time "trading compliments with the sheriff".

O'Connell and Springboks talisman Victor Matfield spent the week's build-up trading compliments before conniving to get the better of each other at the Aviva Stadium.