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Example sentences for "talk about"

  • We had things of some importance to talk about and to do.

  • Talk about lilies of the field, that's what Eileen is!

  • If you have any such feeling in your heart, abandon it, child, because, while I try not to talk about myself, I do want to say that I rejoice in a family inheritance of legitimate pride.

  • In one of their conversations she said to Harald, "The earl has asked me what it is we have to talk about so much, for he is angry at it.

  • Some had been to Jerusalem, some to Constantinople; and there they had made themselves renowned, and they had many kinds of novelties to talk about.

  • If you proceed in this way,' returned Tom, reddening, 'you will oblige me to talk about my wrongs.

  • Keep your eye upon him in the meanwhile, and don't talk about it.

  • It is astonishing how much three people may find to talk about.

  • For a gentleman sitting alone with a lady--although the door WAS open--to talk about a naked eye!

  • Talk about men, if you will, but spare the poor women.

  • So they all agreed that they should like to hear me talk about trees.

  • Don't I read up various matters to talk about at this table or elsewhere?

  • Talk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human character what salt is to the ocean; it keeps it sweet, and renders it endurable.

  • I'll tell you a great deal more before your next day out," she said, "so that you will have more to talk about.

  • And then she told him about the robin and Ben Weatherstaff, and there was so much to tell about the robin and it was so easy and safe to talk about it that she ceased to be afraid.

  • Don't let us talk about dying; I don't like it.

  • Never heard your father and mother talk about him?

  • If we talk about him I can't help looking at him," Mary said as softly as possible.

  • As the announcement was vague, though very peremptory, Little Dorrit returned, 'Let us talk about it.

  • This will supply the rest of them here with something new to talk about.

  • The two had not been together five minutes, and the peculiar manner seemed to convey to them, 'You were going to talk about me.

  • Said she innocently: "If it irritates you, Davy, we won't talk about him.

  • So she did not hesitate to go on: "Instead of helping Victor Dorn by giving him things to talk about, it seems to me I'd USE him, father.

  • She had brought an Italian maid with her from Florence, and a mass of baggage that had given the station loungers at Remsen City something to talk about, when there was a dearth of new subjects, for the rest of their lives.

  • I told you he isn't fit to talk about," said Martha.

  • He's too low to talk about," said Martha, amiable and absent.

  • He was just asking for the sake of something to talk about.

  • She said as if meditating aloud that she supposed the Fynes were not likely to talk about that.

  • No doubt we two should find many things to talk about by ourselves in reference to our common calling, added little Fyne portentously in his grave undertones, as if the Mercantile Marine were a secret society.

  • You don't talk about buryin's at weddings.

  • Talk about pluggin' away at a job in the city, an' goin' to movie' pictures and Sunday picnics for amusement!

  • But that ain't what I want to talk about.

  • And began quickly to talk about a Lady Somthing or other we'd met on a train in Switzerland.

  • It--it hurts to talk about him," I observed faintly.

  • For after all, if they were going to talk about my private Affairs behind my back, I felt that they might as well have something to talk about.

  • Why, they don't talk about you at all--at least only just a mention, once in a long time.

  • Probably, anyhow, that is why she told me not to talk about him.

  • But soon he had roused himself, and had picked up another curio to talk about.

  • It'll be easier, maybe--if I don't talk about him.

  • She always found something else to talk about.

  • Else why should he talk about his 'twenty minutes past' and about his having no watch to tell the time by?

  • But what's gittin' to worry me, by cripes, is all this here war-talk about Injuns.

  • He won't talk about what he's going to do till he's all ready to do it.

  • We are going to talk about everything in the world except the war.

  • I have had half a dozen soldier fellows in already this morning to talk about it, and we're simply mad with curiosity.

  • Shall we talk about it later on this evening?

  • Ah, my dear young man, don't talk about passing--for the likes of me!

  • Such a place as that had the added merit of giving those who came into it plenty to talk about.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "talk about" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    all the; food and live animals; kilowatt hours; love story; more considerable; often went; our great; physical health; private individuals; second glance; seems likely; slow oven; take observations; talk about; talk about something else; talk business; talk like; talk much; talk nonsense; talk over; talk with; talked about; talked much; talking about; talking nonsense; wood trees