CONVERSANT in a Sentence

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Within four weeks at the most he had so thoroughly got his hand in that he was conversant with Customs procedure in every detail.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONVERSANT
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conversant
 a.  familiar, as by study or experience; able to converse knowledgeably
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Their ideas are perpetually conversant in lines and figures.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II.
2  But my life for it he was either practically conversant with his subject, or else marvellously tutored by some experienced whaleman.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and...
3  Within four weeks at the most he had so thoroughly got his hand in that he was conversant with Customs procedure in every detail.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
4  Milady, on the contrary, was quite conversant with all aristocratic intrigues, amid which she had constantly lived for five or six years.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 61 THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BETHUNE
5  Let a commonwealth, then, be constituted in the country where a great equality is found or has been made; and, conversely, let a princedom be constituted where great inequality prevails.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LV.
6  Kennicott, Sam Clark, Jackson Elder, young Dr. McGanum, and James Madison Howland, teetering on their toes near the stove, conversed with the sedate pomposity of the commercialist.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  In fact, the artist's design seemed this: a final theory of my own, partly based upon the aggregated opinions of many aged persons with whom I conversed upon the subject.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
8  His companions, who conversed apart in the language of their tribe, heeded not this sudden and earnest appeal.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
9  Hawkeye and the Mohicans conversed earnestly together in Delaware for a few moments, when each quietly took his post, in order to execute the plan they had speedily devised.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
10  The warriors had reassembled, and were now calmly smoking, while they conversed gravely on the chief incidents of their recent expedition to the head of the Horican.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
11  The warriors were lounging in groups, musing more than they conversed and when a few words were uttered, speaking like men who deeply weighed their opinions.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
12  The youth, on guard duty one night, conversed across the stream with one of them.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
13  He conversed with the men in blue, studying their faces with his bright and keen eyes.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
14  Bois-Guilbert," answered the Jewess, "thou knowest not the heart of woman, or hast only conversed with those who are lost to her best feelings.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
15  As they thus conversed, the heavy bell of the church of Saint Michael of Templestowe, a venerable building, situated in a hamlet at some distance from the Preceptory, broke short their argument.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
Example Sentence: (142 in 10 pages)
16  The art of conversation is highly esteemed in France.
17  The art of good conversation seems lost.
18  You ought to have instructed your attorney to bring an action against the hawker for criminal conversation with your wife.
19  She fell into a conversation with a man at the bar.
20  He drags his war stories into every conversation.
21  By reading we enrich the mind; by conversation we polish it.
22  Clearly she had no wish for conversation.
23  Your conversation is the mirror of your thoughts.
24  Drag up a chair and join the conversation.
25  She was engaged in conversation with a client.
26  Barry had obviously come in on the tail-end of the conversation.
27  Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
28  There was a brief pause in the conversation.
29  Our conversation came to an abrupt end when George burst into the room.
30  There was a hubbub of excited conversation from over a thousand people.