"You need things like these to really bring people together," Ms. Advani said, as the conversation swirled at the two-hour event in February at Coolfish in Syosset.

At dinner, Cassie sat beside the dowager as laughter and conversation swirled around her, echoing off the high, vaulted ceiling.

The conversation swirled on around Joseph but he barely listened.

As she ate, around them, the half spoken, half shouted conversations swirled.

Then the many conversations with Kay Quin swirled around her brain.

The conversation ebbed and swirled about them.

The conversation swirled, passing from one topic to another.

As the conversation swirled around the table, I felt lucky to be with this gang again.

As closing time neared, the conversation swirled back to whether the deaths really would improve the lives of Iraqis.

The conversation swirled on around me, but I didn't listen very closely.