trivial talk
Example Sentences
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"Don Ippolito," said Mrs. Vervain, turning to the priest, who had been listening intently to all this trivial talk, "what do you think of this sketch?"
From A Foregone Conclusion by William Dean Howells
Sometimes a kind of awful astonishment would come over me as I listened to his trivial talk, and heard him make plans for a future that was never to be.
From Vendetta: a story of one forgotten by Marie Corelli
After this they fell into quite trivial talk, while Humility prepared the tea things.
From The Ship of Stars by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
In all her early letters there is an entire absence of that trivial talk about dress, parties, and the gossip of the day, so common at her age.
From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Edward B. Hall
How could we achieve all this ordinary trivial talk of everyday in the gloom of this romantic adventure?
From The Jervaise Comedy by J. D. (John Davys) Beresford
