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Idioms and Phrases

Engage someone in talking purely for its own sake, make small talk, as in She had a real talent for making conversation with strangers . [c. 1920]
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Example Sentences

Attempting to make conversation, the man said in Chinese pidgin, “You likee food?”

I found it more of an effort than I had imagined to make conversation with those young men.

I am trying to make conversation, but am more interested in the people and the boat and those who are going to travel with me.

I didn't think so, but to make conversation I said: "How long is it since you were home?"

Colonel Gilbert probably saw this, for he began to make conversation with de Vasselot.

"There's Rundle with that horrible lurcher dog of his," said Johnny, and spoke more to make conversation than anything else.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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