Example Sentences

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If we had been conversing via phone, I would have known the cues that indicated whether and when she wanted/needed to wind the conversation down.

From Washington Post • May 4, 2022

With our dishes piled high, we returned to the same spots where we had been conversing about airplanes only moments earlier.

From Salon • Nov. 25, 2021

The email records request was not content related, the DOJ said, but gleaned the identity of who the reporter had been conversing with during that period.

From Slate • May 21, 2021

Police had asked the actor to hand over his phone because he had been conversing with his manager when the incident happened.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2019

It was as if my ether body had been conversing with angels, somewhere up near the ceiling.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides