carry on a conversation

idiom

: to talk among each other

It was so noisy that we could hardly carry on a conversation.

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Recent Examples on the Web

Via everywhere on the internet, here's Jeremiah McDonald, who used a 20-year-old videotape of his younger self to carry on a conversation across time. —Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2012

The bill, by Rep. Randy Wood, R-Anniston, would expand that restriction to ban holding a cell phone to carry on a conversation. —Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 5 Apr. 2023

Vigorous intensity is marked by the inability to carry on a conversation. —Kristen Rogers, CNN, 28 Feb. 2023

ChatGPT, the latest technological sensation, is an artificial intelligence chatbot with an amazing ability to carry on a conversation. —Michael S.a. Graziano, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023

Because his father can talk to anybody and carry on a conversation. —Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 13 Dec. 2022

Some examples are chatbots via AI, and even the first humanoid robot to gain citizenship, Sophia, who can carry on a conversation. —Susan Johnston, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2022

Please tell your readers that some people do not want to carry on a conversation on a plane, and some, like me, are too tired, too sad or too preoccupied to talk. —Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2021

Sophia can now carry on a conversation, offer a range of facial expressions and even high-five. —CBS News, 22 Apr. 2021

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