make conversation
make polite conversation

Making conversation was not an issue for these young men and women.

On the other hand, you will not be expected to make conversation.

By way of making conversation I asked her if she felt well.

I asked him, more to be making conversation than anything else.

To make conversation, I asked someone how one got to a certain office in the building.

After the first few miles, I gave up on trying to make conversation.

Remember, you do not have to answer questions or make conversation with anyone.

It seemed to him the general was still just making conversation.

I asked him, trying to make conversation as we walked.

So as not to have to make conversation, I looked over his stuff.

It was much less trying not to have to make conversation about nothing.

Maybe it's the only way he can make conversation with a woman.

Just to make conversation I asked him once what our legal position was.

Her mother, making conversation, asked him if he had gone to the fair.

He had not wanted to have to trouble himself making conversation.

Well, at least he wouldn't be required to make conversation.

In any event, it made conversation a more private matter.

It's not something you make conversation about over a drink.

As we were talking the guns started up again, making conversation very difficult.

It's much easier to make conversation if you have something to do.

Then not long later a girl walks over to him and they make conversation.

She is trying to be happy and make conversation, but she's in such physical pain it's very difficult to have fun.

"Takes me right back," I said, making conversation so that we would not have to face just how much worse things were.

Sometimes she just makes conversation with the families or reads to the children.

I try to make conversation and pretend I'm having a good time.

I said like a man trying to make polite conversation.

Perhaps he would simply like you to be able to make polite conversation.

This is not the kind of guy who makes polite conversation.

Did he think she was still interested in making polite conversation?

Everyone was making polite conversation and absolutely no one had been killed up to the present moment.

There weren't many people sitting near us, so I tried to make polite conversation, but he wasn't having any.

I don't want to spend all night sitting here, making polite conversation, trying to figure out what he wants from me.

So now we're going to make polite conversation, she thought and nearly ground her teeth.

And among the mall's people, failure does not make polite conversation.

They sat down opposite each other and made polite conversation while she wondered what kind of a man he was.

Otherwise, "they are just making polite conversation over a lunch for which you probably paid."

Thrilled by this, they offer to buy her a cup of coffee and make polite conversation for a little while.

Scout turned to Brooke in an effort to make polite conversation.

The Bursar felt it was up to him to make polite conversation.

But don't expect me to make polite conversation, least of all about Hick.

She watched him consume several slices and made polite conversation.

In a social situation like a party, for example, you probably make polite conversation with a stranger about the host, the food and weekend plans.

You couldn't even make polite conversation without risking an explosion from one of them.

Even so, he smiled and made polite conversation, as if nothing were amiss.

"For now, perhaps we had better return and make polite conversation and all that," Miles went on.

He went on: "I'm not much good at making polite conversation before breakfast.

I couldn't tell if she had simply been making polite conversation or was now waiting for me to ask her when she got off work.

He sneers at harmless people who try to make polite conversation.

Before long, her neighbors at the long table began to make polite conversation.

Obliged to make polite conversation all the time oh!