table talk

Example Sentences

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"I mean, how many people on the planet share this common experience? Not many. So, my hope is for us all to have a red table talk and just see how it goes," she reasoned.

From Fox News • Apr. 28, 2021

And kids traumatised by what they picked up from the table talk, but that was just parental carelessness.

From The Guardian • Feb. 1, 2020

We were sitting down to a dinner party; he was, between snippets of table talk, texting advice to some girl who was upset because the guy she’d been dating wanted to see other women.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 8, 2019

Knowledge lags in profound, accurate, honest, subtle and direct language spoken or written which always seems to contradict easy coherences of group whether polite table talk or political party or nation.

From New York Times • May 21, 2016

The officers at the table talk with indignation about other numbers: the Eighth and Fifth German Armies retreat north through Italy, the Tenth Army might be encircled.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr