make conversation

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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Trying to make conversation, Beauvais mentioned that she loved Reba’s “smart and sweet” grandchildren.

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With the goal of meeting other women my age, I began attending book signings, workshops or menopause symposiums solo so that I would be forced to work through my social anxiety and make conversation.

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An Israeli news website, Ynet, reported that the men had told their captors that they were Argentine and had tried to make conversation by talking about soccer.

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“As if to make conversation or sort of break the ice, he took me aside and said, ‘I got a new van recently, and I’m enjoying the hell out of it,’” Merlis remembered with a laugh.

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He said he pushed Spacey away and tried to make conversation.

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