How to Use conversant in a Sentence

conversant

adjective

• She's conversant in several languages.
• Players are more conversant, fans want to read more etc.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 11 Aug. 2021
• It’s all well and good for those who are conversant with the myth in all its details, but how does Mr. Petzold’s film look to those who are not?
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 3 June 2021
• How is the market: Your broker should be conversant with the market in which your building competes, the trends up or down and the prospects for the next six months.
  — Allen Buchanan, Orange County Register, 20 May 2017
• Tesson, being French and conversant with La Fontaine, regards this as an instance of sour grapes.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
• One of the biggest challenges was finding a priest conversant in sign language and familiar with the deaf culture.
  — Ken Byron, courant.com, 25 Aug. 2017
• For a time many Americans were conversant in O-rings, the sealant that failed with tragic consequences when the space shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2020
• James is 25 and is conversant almost solely in the insanely labyrinthine plots of the show, which delivers some bizarre messages.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2017
• Price’s supple voice proved conversant with everything from blues to soul.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• And that Obama's ability to be conversant on pop culture, not to mention his sarcastic sense of humor, was a good fit for the shows.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 10 Dec. 2021
• Everyone in town is conversant with these calamities, the figures involved and the attendant risks of speaking to the police.
  — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2020
• And only a handful of members are conversant in the language of big-time college athletics.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
• Alessandro — nicknamed Ale — took classes in Mandarin from age 4 through 17 and is conversant in Italian.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022
• Her songs are getting looser, more conversant in global trends.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2021
• For the members of the nine tribes of the Great Sioux Nation, their relationship to the land is based in stories from an oral tradition with which most Americans are not conversant.
  — Star Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
• That there is a cohort of students in this country who are much more conversant in, versed in, educated about, engaged in the theory of race.
  — Bridget Read, Vogue, 23 Apr. 2018
• They aren't conversant in sign language, because their lives haven’t warranted it.
  — Sarah Haselhorst, Cincinnati.com, 1 June 2020
• For them, not being conversant in the dominant language presents all kinds of obstacles to success.
  — Arkansas Online, 9 Oct. 2021
• Wright as a director seems less conversant with the dark corners of the psyche that (good) horror generally plumbs.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2021
• Even toddlers, not yet conversant in hamachi and unagi, eat seaweed in little crisp packages as SeaSnax.
  — Tamar Adler, Vogue, 15 Feb. 2019
• Popular perception in the developed world remains that crypto is at best the domain of meme-conversant Wolf of Wall Street-like figures and at worst of drug dealers.
  — Boaz Sobrado, Wired, 19 Dec. 2021
• Those stories are all self-enclosed, with conversant themes and beats but no overlapping characters.
  — Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2022
• Tellingly, few websites venture beyond English, a language in which perhaps only one in ten are conversant and which is preferred by the economic elite.
  — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
• Those conversant with both realms enjoy a signal advantage.
  — Bryan A. Garner, National Review, 17 Dec. 2020
• And their willingness to pay for a certain kind of information, the sort that might help a person sitting in an assistant’s desk, or in middle management, become conversant in the gossip of the C-suite.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2022
• Well, there were still the career officials in the National Security Division who had been working with me on this matter that were there and were certainly conversant in the facts.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 8 May 2017
• Now, three decades later, Mr. Sapan is fully conversant with the rich cultural and literary history of Milford.
  — Joanne Kaufman, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2019
• Lang was conversant in every conceivable musical idiom and genre, a versatility that kept him in demand for pop and jazz albums as well.
  — Jon Burlingame, Variety, 5 Aug. 2022
• Morrison made her audiences conversant in her — the metaphors of trauma, the melodramas of psychology.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2019
• But the real diplomatic action, if there is any, is likely to take place between Kim and South Korea’s newish left-wing president who, unlike Trump, is actually conversant on the issues in play.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 18 May 2018

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