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Example sentences for "converse"

Lexicographically close words:
conversationalist; conversationalists; conversationally; conversations; conversazione; conversed; conversely; converser; converses; conversing
  1. Both were imprisoned in the Conciergerie, and refused converse with the duke.

  2. Philip II’s answer was metallically hard; he would not consent to the presence either of Jeanne d’Albret or the prince of Condé at Bayonne, because it would be a reproach to him and to Spain for his wife to have had converse with a heretic.

  3. India has countless languages and dialects, and in Canton the Chinamen from various parts of the Empire have to converse with each other in "pidjin English.

  4. She had to pass Mrs Searby's cottage on her way, where that worthy woman with upturned sleeves was standing at the open door in converse with another of the mothers whose children attended the school.

  5. Do you think I could see and converse with--with--her without knowing something of her heart?

  6. The converse of this principle was often affirmed by Benedictines in the saying, "To work is to pray.

  7. They had at Chatillon a house which they possessed in common and in which they held meetings, dwelt together, and held converse with one another.

  8. From town and village, far and near, The noblest men are gathered here; Here merchants with their followers crowd, And men in joyful converse loud, And kings from many a distant land To view the consecration stand.

  9. The monstrous fiend, to anger stirred, The converse of the brothers heard.

  10. The people of the town who longed To view the rite together thronged, And filling every court and square Praised the good king in converse there: “Our high-souled king!

  11. While Gods and saints in close array Held converse of the coming fray, The army of the fiends drew near With sight and sound that counselled fear.

  12. This I take to be the reason which makes so many people talk of the air being corrupted and infected, and that they need not be cautious of whom they converse with, for that the contagion was in the air.

  13. All they could do was to warn and caution the people not to entertain in their houses, or converse with, any people who they knew came from such infected places.

  14. Poor Ahmet sighed, saying that he was compelled to converse with them.

  15. They do absolutely nothing; while the women are engaged trading, the men stand some distance apart and do not converse with them.

  16. Being alone and unable to converse with them, I did not care to trust myself among a couple of thousand wild animals so far away from the cutter and with no arms but a revolver.

  17. I found on trial, however, that the girl's knowledge of English was so slight that we could not readily converse in it.

  18. He could converse fluently on all occasions, and needed no drawing out, inasmuch as he was always ready to exhibit his powers of conversation.

  19. The converse error appears in the MSS of Clem.

  20. The converse application of the metaphor appears in Acts xiv.

  21. But we were amazed to find how easily their language could be acquired, and in a very short space of time we were able to converse with this new people.

  22. After a week's intercourse with Kaosp he was able to converse in a broken sort of way, in three weeks he had mastered sufficient for all ordinary purposes.

  23. Advance ye with caution; and hold no converse with the men of Gathma until ye reach Helmath; or swift and certain ruin will overtake ye.

  24. The tallest of these men of Ramos here before thee, he who with his persuasive tongue addressed thee last, hath dared to hold private converse with thy daughter Volinè; to steal her heart, and to mantle her with shame!

  25. Kaosp hath informed me that you are now able to converse in our tongue, and therefore to understand the charges that have been laid against you.

  26. He hadn't caught her name; he knew no more of her tastes, of the things she was likely to converse about than did the Man in the Moon.

  27. And this, forsooth, is a fit soul and mind[302] for the gods to hold converse with by night!

  28. Thus of the favorite's fall the converse ran, And thus the whisper passed from man to man.

  29. I, lover of Nature, beloved for my love of her, Held such converse afar with the great Who knew her better than I.

  30. Here, as has already been observed, condemned malefactors were allowed to converse with such of their guests as had not interest or money enough to procure admission to them in the hold.

  31. Here he was hospitably entertained by Adamnán, and in the course of a prolonged sojourn through the stormy winter months held much learned converse with his host, to their mutual edification.

  32. And if he had a wife, I knew he was so honest a man he would not so much as converse with me, or so much as know me if he met me in the street.

  33. My merchant, bred to business and used to converse among men of business, could hardly tell how to live without it; at least it appeared he should be like a fish out of water, uneasy and dying.

  34. I made some very diverting and useful observations in all these places, and particularly of the conduct of the ladies; for I had opportunity to converse very much among them, by the help of the old witch that travelled with us.

  35. It is needless to observe, that with respect to the negroes, the precise converse is the case.

  36. I advanced to the old man, and was undoubtedly the last human being who held converse with him.

  37. According to him, Captain Abraham Chaplain saw Indians arrive at the post of Kaskasky, and converse in the Welsh language with some soldiers, who were natives of Wales.

  38. Larkin, glad to know that he could converse in a tongue much more familiar to him than the former.

  39. I will lead you to a spot where we can converse at ease, without fear of being disturbed.

  40. After supper; Spider lit his pipe and sat down near the sorcerer; he wished to converse with him and clear up, not his suspicions, but the doubts he entertained about him.

  41. I'll tell him you're vurry anxious to converse with him some more.

  42. And you mean to tell me you've never met anybody since you even cared to converse with?

  43. I'd like you to converse with your friend opposite, so I could get a chance to chip in.

  44. There is nothing more evident, than that the ideas of the persons children converse with (to instance in them alone) are, like the persons themselves, only particular.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "converse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    address; adverse; answer; antagonistic; anti; antipathetic; antipodal; antipodes; antithesis; antithetical; balancing; chat; chatter; chew; chin; clashing; colloquy; commerce; communicate; communication; communion; community; compensating; confer; conflicting; confronting; connection; contact; contra; contradictory; contrary; conversation; converse; correspondence; counter; counterbalance; counterpoint; dealing; dealings; declaim; dialogue; discordant; discourse; discrepant; exchange; facing; fellowship; foil; gab; hostile; inconsistent; information; inimical; interaction; interchange; intercommunication; intercourse; interplay; inverse; message; mouth; obverse; offset; opposed; opposing; opposite; oppositional; palaver; patter; perverse; polar; rapping; reply; repugnant; response; reverse; speak; speaking; speech; talk; talking; telepathy; touch; traffic; truck