Keeping her voice conversational, she asked him without looking up.
"Nice looking car," he said in a conversational tone.
"You're a beautiful woman," he said in a conversational tone.
Howie's total conversational contributions, if not discussing his flowers, were hovering entreaties if everyone had enough to eat or drink.
His conversational powers rivalled those of Dr Johnson; and, if more of his sayings have not been chronicled for the benefit of posterity, the defect is due to the absence of a Boswell.