light talk
Example Sentences
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The light talk was punctuated by a few delicately probing questions and long, revelatory answers.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2023
The sailors, all from the Philippines, are a little tired-looking and taciturn, but they crowd around Chapman and DeLeon for light talk in English and Tagalog.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2022
It was mostly fun, light talk radio fare, but it started to get chippy over the question of “Who was the last team to win it all?”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2020
Nancy Astor was tired, but she kept up a patter of light talk.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only those who thoroughly understood these two beings could have guessed beneath this light talk the strict propriety of the mother and the son's respect for the maternal home.
From The Little Russian Servant by Gréville, Henry
