Sample Sentences forconversant (auto-selected)
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Tinker became conversant in Norwegian in a single week, taking lessons from his cell neighbors.† (source)
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I'd become conversant in cancer talk.† (source)
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Though his Australo-Ukrainian accent was certainly very odd, he was almost as fluent in English as I was; and considering what a short time he'd lived in America he was reasonably conversant in amerikanskii ways.† (source)
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George became conversant, and he was just jingoist enough to honestly not care which side he was on-a rare and valuable trait, even in high-level debaters, Jack knew.† (source)
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It had been wrought, as was easy to perceive, with wonderful skill of needlework; and the stitch (as I am assured by ladies conversant with such mysteries) gives evidence of a now forgotten art, not to be discovered even by the process of picking out the threads.† (source)
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Miss Cathy — conversant with no bad deeds except her own slight acts of disobedience, injustice, and passion, arising from hot temper and thoughtlessness, and repented of on the day they were committed — was amazed at the blackness of spirit that could brood on and cover revenge for years, and deliberately prosecute its plans without a visitation of remorse.† (source)
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The least of my Hitler colleagues knew some German; others were either fluent in the language or reasonably conversant.† (source)
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Someone knew before him, a long time ago, someone who had wolves for pets and lions for night conversants.† (source)
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New conversance with tradesmen's bills had forced his reasoning into a new channel of comparison: he had begun to consider from a new point of view what was necessary and unnecessary in goods ordered, and to see that there must be some change of habits.† (source)
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But my life for it he was either practically conversant with his subject, or else marvellously tutored by some experienced whaleman.† (source)
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Dantes employed it in manoeuvring his yacht round the island, studying it as a skilful horseman would the animal he destined for some important service, till at the end of that time he was perfectly conversant with its good and bad qualities.† (source)
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More months, to the number of twelve, had come and gone, and Mr. Charles Darnay was established in England as a higher teacher of the French language who was conversant with French literature.† (source)
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Will people in a hundred years, though, be conversant with film comedy of the 1980s?† (source)
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During his exile in Rome, Shah had become conversant with many cultures and had no trouble pinpointing the place the large fair-haired man in the photographer's vest came from.† (source)
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You are conversant with my wardrobe?† (source)
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He had become thoroughly conversant with that unwritten code with which he had been so pleased at Olmutz and according to which an ensign might rank incomparably higher than a general, and according to which what was needed for success in the service was not effort or work, or courage, or perseverance, but only the knowledge of how to get on with those who can grant rewards, and he was himself often surprised at the rapidity of his success and at the inability of others to understand these things.† (source)
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