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.
• But dialect was an essential element of all Hurston’s work.
  — The Economist, 10 May 2018
• Citadel Theatre hired a coach to help with the physical scenes as well as a dialect coach to help the actors speak with British accents.
  — Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 17 Apr. 2018
• People have been watching content and speak a similar language, maybe with different dialects.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Dec. 2024
• Chalamet learned 13 songs for the part and spent years studying with harmonica, dialect, and movement coaches.
  — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 10 Dec. 2024
• North Koreans and South Koreans speak the same language, though there are differences in dialect.
  — Eli Meixler, Time, 27 Apr. 2018
• Many live in complex social groups, communicate in different dialects, pass on culture through generations, engage in play and even grieve the loss of family and friends as was the case here.
  — Tom Howarth, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
• Throughout his pre-trial court dates, an Arabic interpreter with an Egyptian dialect has been on hand to interpreter the proceedings for Sam, court records show.
  — Alicia Fabbre, Daily Southtown, 8 May 2018
• As the country expanded west in the 19th century, white settlers from the East Coast moved inland, bringing their regional dialects with them.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Dec. 2024
• What the pupil needs to learn is the dialect of a tribe.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 13 July 2018
• 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
• Jones and Brody learned Hungarian and worked with a dialect coach for the movie.
  — Carole Horst, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Ambitiously, the dialogue slips in and out of multiple languages (the program lists a dozen translators and five accent and dialect coaches), but the scrolling supertitles are clunky and not well placed.
  — New York Times, 2 May 2018
• 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
• Turns out, dat good ole dialect is a put-on: James speaks like a professor.
  — Rachel Flynn, People.com, 3 Dec. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 1 Feb 2025