How to Use subtitle in a Sentence

subtitle

1 of 2 noun
  • And so the subtitle of this journal is Fate of the Blenden Hall, written in the blood of a penguin.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The subtitles are easy to miss due to their small size and tendency to move around the screen.
    PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The film is in French and Wolof with English subtitles.
    Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The show has made a few changes though starting with the new subtitle Moments in Love.
    Marcus Jones, EW.com, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Tap your avatar at the top of the Skype screen, then pick Settings, Calling, and Call subtitles.
    David Nield, Popular Science, 1 June 2020
  • But the subtitle provides an opening to disrupt the old talk and make space for new ideas.
    Bethanne Patrick, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The subtitle of your book is a hopeful-sounding one, though.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 5 July 2022
  • That job was the beginning of the adventure in the film’s subtitle.
    Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Jan. 2023
  • In the book’s subtitle, Mr. Tetro, who is now in his 70s, calls himself the world’s greatest art forger.
    Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The subtitle came in after months of waiting, and the first trailer dropped quite a while after that.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 31 Oct. 2021
  • The streaming and early access to shows from Japan with subtitles and dubs.
    Nick Statt, The Verge, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The films are available with subtitles in 28 languages and are dubbed in some 20 languages.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The subtitle refers not only to the twilight of the 1920s but to a changing of the guard in this entertainment franchise as well.
    Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 18 May 2022
  • Simon & Schuster And yes, as the book's subtitle says, Charlie lived to be 109.
    Luke Burbank, CBS News, 4 June 2023
  • The subtitle of your book combines dark matter, space-time and dreams deferred.
    Lisa Selin Davis, CNN, 2 May 2021
  • Take More Vacations is a detailed how-to book that makes good on the promise in his subtitle.
    Caroline Ceniza-Levine, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
  • But the theme that commands Chafkin’s keenest attention is the one promised in his subtitle.
    Sebastian Mallaby, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The film’s subtitle refers most explicitly to the advent of talkies, which were just becoming a thing in the late 1920s.
    Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 18 May 2022
  • True to the show’s reputation, this second of two special episodes has a subtitle that’s a bit too racy for print.
    oregonlive, 30 Dec. 2020
  • But one has to wonder at the book’s hackneyed and misleading subtitle.
    Katherine A. Powers, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The film will be shown in Japanese with English subtitles.
    Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Of all the big streamers, Amazon Prime has the least options for subtitle customization.
    Jourdain Searles, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2021
  • As its lengthy subtitle suggests, the movie frees the character from being a sidekick.
    New York Times, 20 July 2022
  • The 1992 movie is based on Laura Esquivel’s book of the same name, and is Spanish language with English subtitles.
    cleveland, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Perez Howard grew up knowing only the basic facts of his earliest years, though this was enough to justify his use of the word tragedy in the book’s subtitle.
    Lenika Cruz, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The video includes subtitles in English that do not directly correspond to the Hebrew words used by the hostage, who pleads for the release of the captives.
    Michael Levenson, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The film will be available both in Japanese with English subtitles and dubbed in English.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The subtitle, however, proves as much a warning as a promise.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 1 Aug. 2023
  • That’s the immodest but accurate subtitle of a new book that charts his career.
    Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The film, in Spanish with English subtitles, is rated R for language.
    Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Mar. 2023
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subtitle

2 of 2 verb
  • They'll be subtitled in 28 languages and dubbed in up to 20.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Signs all over ask that visitors not touch or climb on the art works—even though Lee subtitles the work Come In.
    Roger Catlin, Smithsonian, 3 Oct. 2019
  • The film is considered by many to be the first subtitled for the American market.
    Sandra E. Garcia, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Sung in Italian, the opera is subtitled in English and Spanish.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The series could use a winner that’s not subtitled Warhammer.
    Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 18 Jan. 2019
  • What went into the decision not to over-explain Bob’s accent, the use of Jamaican Patois or to subtitle the film?
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The goal of the 21-minute documentary, subtitled in English and Portuguese, was to explain the heavy history of the word to Afro-Brazilians.
    Kiratiana Freelon, The Root, 6 June 2018
  • Each of the videos released so far are subtitled with a single Chinese character that makes up the phrase 起承轉結, or 기승전결 in Korean.
    Tamar Herman, Billboard, 17 Aug. 2017
  • The video offers the unique opportunity to hear the players' complaints up close and subtitled.
    SI.com, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Beginning next year, the videos will be subtitled into many languages.
    USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2017
  • While on the run, Zachs used two aliases and polished his Spanish by watching English-language that were subtitled in Spanish.
    Dave Altimari, courant.com, 24 July 2019
  • Ayling-Ellis urged broadcasters and streamers to subtitle all of their content.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The violence is often numbing, and the translations — the movie is subtitled — are sometimes as deadly as the swordsmanship.
    Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 1 Nov. 2017
  • John Conyers' autobiography might have been subtitled 'Jazz in the key of life...
    Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press, 4 Nov. 2019
  • It’s also become a feature people expect to see as support for subtitling expands in apps like TikTok, Netflix, Zoom, and more.
    Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 13 Dec. 2023
  • His decision not to subtitle the Spanish language scenes speaks to the open-hearted of the whole enterprise, and there’s a little part of us that wonders if, in 20 years, that’s what this adaptation will be most remembered for.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Performed in English with some Spanish subtitled in English.
    Hannah Herrera Greenspan, chicagotribune.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Some studios are hands-on in the captioning process, and others ask producers to deliver content to them with subtitling already complete.
    Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 June 2023
  • However, interest in the project has ballooned, Columbu said, with more than 2,500 people subtitling their applications for the scheme.
    Byeleanor Pringle, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023
  • That title, subtitled Mistress of Evil, feels like a bit more of a question mark despite the return of star Angelina Jolie, opening a full five years after the original, which grossed more than $758 million worldwide.
    Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 30 July 2019
  • Was this a factual error, in an article subtitled ‘Is checking the accuracy of a story more trouble than it’s worth?’?
    Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 1 Dec. 2019
  • The sweeping restrictions have motivated fans of shows and movies that run afoul of censorship rules to subtitle them in Chinese and upload unauthorized copies online.
    Nectar Gan, CNN, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Premiered in 2016, her First Piano Concerto, subtitled Latin, is in the traditional three movements.
    Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The 2020 movie, subtitled Lassie Come Home, was structured around this incident, with Omundson's character also recovering from a stroke.
    Danny Horn, EW.com, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Tony Kushner makes the story more relevant to a modern audience (Spielberg doesn’t subtitle the Spanish dialogue, which is nice).
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2022
  • For example, a note at the start of the film tells us that the dogs' barking communication has been translated to English while the human Japanese characters only speak in Japanese that's not subtitled.
    Cary Darling, Houston Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2018
  • In one of the most profoundly human moments of the first episode, a family comes together, speaking subtitled Spanish, to watch one of humanity's greatest achievements to date and remember.
    Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Cheaper than employing bilingual casts or remaking from scratch, more accessible to mass audiences than subtitling, the technique had in the early days of the talkies an extra bonus: censorship.
    The Economist, 21 Dec. 2019
  • English is the common language among most players here, so subtitling is relatively minimal.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The company is a language translation, dubbing and subtitling services studio.
    Cindy Kent, Sun-Sentinel.com, 11 Aug. 2017

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