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.
• In her dialect group this word doesn’t mean disheartened.
  — Marilynne Robinson, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• The next step is to research more nonstandard dialects.
  — Cassie Owens, https://www.inquirer.com, 5 June 2019
• Among attendees, Scott said, some judges considered the dialect to be more like slang or lingo.
  — Cassie Owens, https://www.inquirer.com, 5 June 2019
• Slices of lard are tucked into a special device—a flamboir, or flambadou in local dialect—and ignited.
  — Emily Monaco, Saveur, 10 May 2019
• Europe is about diversity, and its patchwork of languages and dialects must be promoted and protected.
  — The Economist, 15 June 2019
• Marchers pushed strollers and carried canes, chanting slogans in the native Cantonese dialect in favor of greater transparency in government.
  — Christopher Bodeen, chicagotribune.com, 9 June 2019
• Several dialects evolved over the centuries, and many important Christian texts have been discovered written in Coptic.
  — National Geographic, 19 Apr. 2019
• Marchers of all ages took part, some pushing strollers and others carrying canes, chanting slogans in the native Cantonese dialect in favor of greater transparency in government.
  — Christopher Bodeen, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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: 9 Dec 2024