The sitting room is the place for sustained conversation.

Already his ability to carry out a sustained conversation was impaired.

Dialing a number, he held a sustained conversation which he confined to a confidential undertone.

Fewer interactions, therefore, indicate more sustained conversations between teachers and their pupils.

Only smatters of information come through, and no sustained conversation about what matters most.

He was seen at the Argo Club - but had no sustained conversation with any one.

But he didn't attempt a sustained conversation with her until she sat at a table and her friends left for the restroom.

On the intervening occasion we had what seems now to have been a long sustained conversation about the political situation and the books and papers I had written.

These two have become a rare partnership, wrapped up inside the music together, their dancing a sustained conversation.

And there was no denying that was true-it was the first thing Beatrice had described to him, once the)' were able to carry on a sustained conversation.