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Sentences with talk down

talk down
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  • The pilot began to talk him down by giving instructions over the radio. [VERB noun PREPOSITION]
  • They even blame the government for talking down the nation's fourth-biggest industry. [VERB PREPOSITION noun]
  • We talked them down and struck a deal. [VERB noun PREPOSITION]
  • To talk about poetry.
  • Talk with your adviser.
  • To talk very softly; to talk into a microphone.
  • The professor talked on the uses of comedy in the tragedies of Shakespeare.
  • After a long interrogation, the spy finally talked.
  • To talk sense.
  • They talk French together for practice.
  • To talk politics.
  • This isn't a question of a few hundred dollars—we're talking serious money.
  • To talk a person to sleep; to talk a person into doing something.
  • Peace talks.
  • There is a lot of talk going around about her.
  • Your wild escapades are the talk of the neighborhood.
  • That's just a lot of talk.
  • A halting, lisping talk.
  • He always talked big, but never amounted to anything.
  • All I wanted was a chance to read my book, but my seatmate talked my ear off.
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