Listening to their desultory conversation I kept to own thoughts with half my mind.

The two men carried on a desultory conversation in that strange dialect she could not understand.

They carried on a desultory conversation but failed to avoid the subject of the ship and her new captain.

We made desultory conversation until the waiter came for our orders.

They spent the rest of the morning in desultory conversation.

The conference broke up after a few more suggestions and a little desultory conversation.

And does all that desultory conversation mean more than it says?

Angelina and I tried a desultory conversation that soon died away.

Then pizza around the fire, with the guys making their usual desultory conversation.

He rode along with them, and listened to their desultory conversation.