"opening" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- His conversational opening had guaranteed she wouldn't turn away.
- The tattoo is connected to the second marriage, he says, and he got it simply to have a conversational opening with the woman, who was half Chinese.
- It was a good conversational opening, and he remarked on the new development to his driver.
- Good excuse to be grumpy and quiet while the others talk about the meeting and to avoid Jo's eyes, pretending not to hear her abrupt conversational openings.
- For men, conversational openings about cars, sports or high-tech consumer electronics are usually a good bet.
- It was not a promising conversational opening, and despite his loneliness of a few minutes previously, Nick suddenly wanted to be alone again.
- There was no need to search for a conversational opening.
- They all had theories, travels, diets, colorful pasts, studied conversational openings, and they usually wore some piece of soiled finery like the white silk scarf.
- I just gave you an extremely provocative conversational opening, and you murmured a polite nothing and let it lapse.
- It was his custom to slip past such conversational openings with a quick step and an averted face.
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