How to Use soliloquy in a Sentence
soliloquy
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Maybe there would be a soliloquy from the pirate, or from the pigs.
—James Marcus, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2019
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His farewell to the worm was not unlike the soliloquy of a movie villain about to dispatch the hero.
—Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023
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In the nearly 30 years since, the soliloquy has taken on a life of its own.
—Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Aug. 2021
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But one thing was clear: not all Twitter users were on board with his seat belt soliloquy.
—Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2018
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One of the great thrills for me, even though the movie was not successful, was when Jack Nicholson sang the entire soliloquy.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2020
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Ryan, who introduced Trump at a rally and owned up to that fact in his little soliloquy—and now says, I’m pissed off.
—Stefan Fatsis, Slate Magazine, 25 Sep. 2017
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The remaining soliloquies were shot in the summer of 2016.
—Pam Grady, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 June 2018
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Gunn got to show off his comedic chops (also a fake hook) in the soliloquy for Captain Hook that star Boris Karloff never performed in that same show.
—John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2018
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Their antics and soliloquies, however, do something to ease the long hours on the hospital wards and the sickness of lives that fail to change.
—Laura Kolbe, WSJ, 12 July 2019
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After the loss, Von Miller went all Hamlet on us, baring his soul in a football soliloquy.
—Joe Nguyen, The Denver Post, 17 Dec. 2019
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There's also a licensing fee tied to the use of Sagan's soliloquy, in an amount not being released.
—Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 15 Sep. 2020
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Because these are not short spews of text Fishburne has penned for us; they are run on sentences and legato soliloquies.
—Brittani Samuel, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
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The video, which was altered, showed the Democratic Speaker of the House slurring in what appears to be a drunken soliloquy.
—Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 8 Jan. 2020
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Candles burn, and each of the five offers something like a solo or soliloquy, though most of the talking gets done by Martin, the teacher.
—Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
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Songs are often like soliloquies and call on some of the same performance techniques.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 29 July 2019
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All the women have soliloquys, their chance in a spotlight shining only on them.
—Denise Coffey, courant.com, 17 June 2019
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The relevant social-science soliloquy is not to poll or not to poll.
—Emma Green, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2015
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Keepers ends the first half of the show with a lengthy, poetic, oblique soliloquy about art and science and freedom and discipline.
—Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 20 May 2017
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The Left sees that talk as a relic of a bygone era, like Biden’s soliloquy about leaving the record player on at night during one of the Democratic debates.
—W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 11 Mar. 2021
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Edgard Varèse’s 1936 soliloquy for flute, after which her series is named.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
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Prospero gives a final soliloquy at the end of The Tempest that has often been read as the coded words of Shakespeare himself renouncing the stage.
—Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 26 June 2018
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In a one-man show as the ex-president, actor Philip Baker Hall performs an 87-minute soliloquy.
—Don Steinberg, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2018
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So much music is now a soliloquy with a producer in a room with Ableton talking to themselves.
—Billboard Staff, Billboard, 5 Apr. 2021
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As Sacks, baritone Jarrett Porter bore the verbal blow with staggering pathos in the soliloquy that followed.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2023
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But his quietly delivered advice at the film’s end is the kind of hard-to-forget soliloquy of which every actor dreams.
—Margy Rochlin, latimes.com, 21 Dec. 2017
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Logan was an irresistible brute, able to pack a Shakespeare soliloquy’s worth of emotion into a two-word curse.
—James Poniewozik, New York Times, 26 May 2023
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The cast of Hollywood’s hot labor summer has been rife with villain roles and star-making soliloquies.
—Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
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After the Sudeikis soliloquy, the orchestra began playing the winners off, which is really nasty to do to people in their own homes.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2021
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Mr. Colbert did go on to do a fairly serious soliloquy about the attack.
—Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 1 May 2016
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Paul has a Shakespearean moment in the mirror, quoting the soliloquy from Hamlet.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
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