DIALECT in a Sentence
Learn DIALECT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
35 example sentences for DIALECT, such as:
1. It's like a native dialect in India.
2. 'Why,' he began, in the broad slow dialect.
3. The immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English.
4. It was difficult to understand the local dialect.
5. 'You come then,' he said, using the intonation of the dialect.
2. 'Why,' he began, in the broad slow dialect.
3. The immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English.
4. It was difficult to understand the local dialect.
5. 'You come then,' he said, using the intonation of the dialect.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of DIALECT
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dialect
n. the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1 No outlaw in this land uses the dialect in which thou hast spoken.
2 His voice on the last words had fallen into the heavy broad drag of the dialect.
3 perhaps also in mockery, because there had been no trace of dialect before.
4 She looked at him, getting his meaning through the fog of the dialect.
5 'Why,' he began, in the broad slow dialect.
6 'You come then,' he said, using the intonation of the dialect.
7 It puzzled her, his queer, persistent wanting her, when there was nothing between them, when he never really spoke to her, and in spite of herself she resented the dialect.
8 She hated the dialect: the thee and the tha and the thysen.
9 'Tha's got such a nice tail on thee,' he said, in the throaty caressive dialect.
10 So furious was he that he was hardly articulate, and when he did speak it was in a much broader and more Western dialect than any which we had heard from him in the morning.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
Context Highlight In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
11 When he was very much interested he often spoke quite broad Yorkshire though at other times he tried to modify his dialect so that Mary could better understand.
12 It's like a native dialect in India.
13 "I don't understand your Bornholmish dialect," said he at last, angrily, and turning his back upon them.
14 I did; but they were uttered in the Romaic dialect.
15 She meditated upon his gutter patois, the Boeotian dialect characteristic of Gopher Prairie.
Example Sentence:
1 The immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English.
2 As he told a story, he often imitated the players, speaking in flawless dialect.
3 It was difficult to understand the local dialect.
4 The proportion of the population still speaking the dialect is very small.
5 In China, for example, where a number of different dialects are spoken, the same character can be pronounced in myriad ways.
6 Ziad typically adopts the colloquialism of his generation and effectively captures village and mountain dialects as well.
7 A city is a whole world in miniature, and different groups maintain a group identity which can result in them maintaining different dialects.
8 The Creole language is really various dialects arranged on a continuum.