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.
• 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
• 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
• 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 screenplay was written with a very rarefied dialect in mind.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 24 Aug. 2021
• The name Benoit Blanc should have been enough of a clue, and Mr. Craig does a convincing job of a very specific dialect.
  — WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
• Speaking the Taiwanese dialect in schools was subject to fines.
  — Li Yuan, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• Your words have to be clear, especially with the southern dialect in such a wordy song.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023
• To get the right emotion, dialects, and artistry behind the craft, producers will still need to hire humans.
  — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
• Each is unique, with distinct dialects, accents, and slang.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 12 Dec. 2019
• Despite the hardships, there are still some in the region trying to provide the dialect a lifeline.
  — Simon Romero Desiree Rios, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2023
• In this sense, the woke dialect is a new kind of gnosticism, separating the elite from the great unwashed.
  — Nate Hochman, National Review, 12 Feb. 2022
• De Niro’s lines, so De Niro could hear the intonation, not to feign a Southern dialect, but to sound close enough.
  — Tim Chitwood, ajc, 22 May 2021
• And as a Jamaican, my dialect and my delivery comes off a little bit different than theirs.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 26 July 2024
• Indigenous dialects are spoken amid the space flights, museum heists, and car chases.
  — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 19 June 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024