we're conversing

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

Without realizing it, when we're conversing with friends, we match our tone of voice and speech rhythms to theirs, adopt similar body posture and even imitate their tics.

We're conversing, after the day's rehearsal, in a theater district restaurant called Angus McIndoe, next door to the theater that is home to "The Producers," a show that demonstrates the enduring appeal of the corrupt but charming Falstaffian type: who was Zero Mostel in the original Max Bialystock role but a Jewish Falstaff?

I think we were conversing from space actually.

"At the precise time we drafted we were conversing with Houston, we had not made a deal," Thorn said.

Even as we are conversing about the wonderfulness of this possibility, however, I am thinking: never gonna happen.

Active listening is fundamental to everything we do if we want to be respectful of those with whom we are conversing.

I found myself shedding the role of boss and becoming more of a friend; after all, we were conversing and laughing as equals.

About a half-hour earlier, as we were conversing in the parking lot, a train had rushed past with its whistle hooting.

We were conversing amid the whirring machinery of the Drink Factory, his laboratory in Pink Floyd's former London recording studios, crammed with hundreds of peculiar cocktail ingredients, from nettles and Sichuan pepper to Transylvanian bee pollen.

When we think of our telecommunications experiences, we want them to be seamless and instant - as if we were conversing with someone face-to-face.

We are conversing less.