How to Use conversant in a Sentence

conversant

adjective
  • She's conversant in several languages.
  • Price’s supple voice proved conversant with everything from blues to soul.
    — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Her songs are getting looser, more conversant in global trends.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 17 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • And only a handful of members are conversant in the language of big-time college athletics.
    — Billy Witz, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • Tesson, being French and conversant with La Fontaine, regards this as an instance of sour grapes.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 5 July 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Even toddlers, not yet conversant in hamachi and unagi, eat seaweed in little crisp packages as SeaSnax.
    — Tamar Adler, Vogue, 15 Feb. 2019
  • 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
  • But the old-fashioned scholars not conversant with computer research are at a distinct disadvantage.
    — Bryan A. Garner, National Review, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Now an identity of ideas depends materially upon a sameness of things or objects with which the people of the two countries are conversant.
    — Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 19 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • But now, being conversant in Excel is a baseline requirement for many entry-level positions.
    — Benjamin Wolff, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Morrison made her audiences conversant in her — the metaphors of trauma, the melodramas of psychology.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The eclectic Canadian instrumental act The Sadies is conversant in surf, garage, roots rock, psychedelia and many other sounds.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2026
  • 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
  • Alessandro — nicknamed Ale — took classes in Mandarin from age 4 through 17 and is conversant in Italian.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Through her editorial work, Yanagihara, who is forty-seven, has become conversant with hundreds of creative people and their work.
    — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • But anyone conversant with the story will begin to wonder why so much – her drug dependency, her later difficulties, her role in the financial mess – have been skated over.
    — David Benedict, Variety, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Although theater is not a form that Lerner has seemed particularly conversant with in the past, Transcription feels like a step toward drama.
    — Hannah Gold, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • But no one conversant with the history of ballot proposition campaigns or the uncertainties of government fiscal projections has a right to be surprised.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Our students, while adhering to biblical viewpoints on the origin and diversity of life, must be fully conversant with, and able to think critically about, both models.
    — WSJ, 11 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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