How to Use dialect in a Sentence

dialect

noun

• The play was hard to understand when the characters spoke in dialect.
• The author uses dialect in his writing.
• They speak a southern dialect of French.
• Our food, music, and dialects can be found replicated here in a lot of different ways.
  — Mosha Lundström Halbert, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2018
• The use of dialect suggests that the hustler is black, drawing complaints that the poem is racist.
  — Christopher M. Finan, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2018
• Every state has a different written and spoken language—not a dialect.
  — Brooke Hauser, Marie Claire, 23 Aug. 2018
• Speaking a bizarre family dialect to each other, brother and sister never seem to talk about anything that matters.
  — Tim Parks, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• Growing up on the western frontier of the Tang empire, Li Po spoke a Turkish dialect as his mother tongue.
  — Yunte Huang, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2019
• The 59-year-old plays guitar in a local band called Ground Zero, which dedicated a song in Venetian dialect to the plight of the market.
  — Giovanni Legorano, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2018
• Luther’s vernacular writings, above all his translation of the Bible, have a fair claim to have forged a single German language out of a multitude of local dialects.
  — Eamon Duffy, The New York Review of Books, 18 Apr. 2019
• The other one was the dialect in that movie about Steve Jobs.
  — Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
• There were the horse riding lessons, the dialect lessons.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 16 Sep. 2022
• And a lot of the dialect {in the play} reflects the South in general.
  — al, 23 Aug. 2019
• To that end, Foreman has worked with dialect coach-to-the-stars Denise Woods.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2024
• Of course, the answer is that no dialect of English had been handed down in the girls’ DNA.
  — Katherine D. Kinzler, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2020
• The journey, known in Farsi and in the local Luri dialect as kuch, would take two weeks.
  — Emily Garthwaite; Text By Arik Gabbai, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 May 2021
• The flat, flaky bread was laced with lard, which is called saim in Mallorqui, a Catalan dialect.
  — Dorothy Hernandez, CNN, 25 Feb. 2022
• The album has lyrics in English and in Akan, a local dialect from Ghana.
  — Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2022
• Kayfabe, a dialect of pig Latin, lingo for the promise to drop at the laying on of hands.
  — Gregory Pardlo, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
• Like a lot of things, the Axios dialect emerged from a good idea that spun madly out of control.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 26 Sep. 2022
• There's a lot of sounds that Russians make that the American dialect does not have.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 11 July 2021
• Who knew a simple twist in dialect would leave Nagy a touch sheepish?
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 28 July 2019
• The slang had its own rules, its own politics, its own dialect.
  — Caleb Madison, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2023
• The regional dialect, akin to a strong Boston accent in the U.S., stuck.
  — Sam Wright, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2022
• The dialects are trickier than the crisp Mandarin up north, the food sweeter.
  — Chris Schalkx, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2020
• She was known in the Venetian dialect as Zanetta, and, on the stage, as La Buranella.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• In the old days of vaudeville, there was a lot of dialect comedy, but now we're not allowed to do that.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 May 2024
• Branagh wrote much of Belfast‘s dialogue with an Irish dialect in mind.
  — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2022
• The delightful elocution of their dry-as-martini witticisms (dialect coach Nancy Carlin) adds to the joys of this period piece.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
• Scholars say their separation from the mainland caused residents to retain much of their African heritage, including their unique dialect and skills and crafts such as cast-net fishing and basket-weaving.
  — Russ Bynum and Emily Wagster Pettus, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024