How to Use soliloquy in a Sentence

soliloquy

noun

• Maybe there would be a soliloquy from the pirate, or from the pigs.
  — James Marcus, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2019
• 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
• In the nearly 30 years since, the soliloquy has taken on a life of its own.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Aug. 2021
• But one thing was clear: not all Twitter users were on board with his seat belt soliloquy.
  — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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
• The remaining soliloquies were shot in the summer of 2016.
  — Pam Grady, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 June 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Songs are often like soliloquies and call on some of the same performance techniques.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 29 July 2019
• All the women have soliloquys, their chance in a spotlight shining only on them.
  — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 17 June 2019
• The relevant social-science soliloquy is not to poll or not to poll.
  — Emma Green, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2015
• 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
• 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
• Edgard Varèse’s 1936 soliloquy for flute, after which her series is named.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
• 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
• In a one-man show as the ex-president, actor Philip Baker Hall performs an 87-minute soliloquy.
  — Don Steinberg, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2018
• So much music is now a soliloquy with a producer in a room with Ableton talking to themselves.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 5 Apr. 2021
• As Sacks, baritone Jarrett Porter bore the verbal blow with staggering pathos in the soliloquy that followed.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Mr. Colbert did go on to do a fairly serious soliloquy about the attack.
  — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 1 May 2016
• The premise of an employee (Kenan Thompson) retiring is just an excuse to let one character after another perform a bizarre soliloquy of some kind.
  — Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024