How to Use dialogue in a Sentence

dialogue

noun
Definition of dialoguenext
Synonyms for dialoguenext
  • The best part of the book is the clever dialogue.
  • Students were asked to read dialogues from the play.
  • There's very little dialogue in the film.
  • The two parties have been in constant dialogue with each other.
  • The two sides involved in the labor dispute are trying to establish a dialogue.
  • He is an expert at writing dialogue.
  • And the dialogue, for the most part, just sits on the page.
    — Mike Hale, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Some guys knew the dialogue from the whole film and that, for me, was the sign of a great movie.
    — Kevin L. Clark, Essence, 28 Nov. 2020
  • This isn’t the first time that The King’s choice of dialogue has caused a stir.
    — Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY, 27 June 2018
  • It’s the one that has the least amount of dialogue in the front end, the least amount of storytelling.
    — Gary Graff, cleveland, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Much of the story is told in the dialogue, where much of the nuance is lost.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Perhaps the best part of the film, though, is its dialogue.
    — Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE.com, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The book and the movie serve as tools that are used to begin a dialogue about the death penalty.
    — Susan Sarandon, Marie Claire, 26 Oct. 2017
  • There are long stretches of the movie that don't have a lot of dialogue.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 15 July 2022
  • Twelve lines of dialogue, two-and-a-half-hour run time.
    — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2021
  • The king was reassured he would be kept in the loop on the Oslo dialogue.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The goal was to create a dialogue between the groups as state Reps.
    — Marco Santana, OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 Mar. 2018
  • The second was a dialogue with my soon-to-be twelve-year-old.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2022
  • There is a lot to unpack here, from Yang’s odd meal choice to the cringey dialogue.
    — Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Art is supposed to spark the dialogue that affects the change.
    — Noel Murray, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2021
  • But Dries and her writing team need to move past the stock dialogue.
    — Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 22 Jan. 2021
  • To make the whole thing even more emotional, the video is free of dialogue.
    — Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Though no dialogue was heard, Shane shook their hands and walked away, free to go and fly home.
    — Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2021
  • One throwaway line of dialogue could fill the plot hole.
    — Rena Gross, Billboard, 2 May 2018
  • That message – and the core romance – might be stronger if the dialogue were less stiff.
    — Mark Athitakis, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2022
  • But my first part of that, which is recording his dialogue, is sort of done.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 16 June 2020
  • The dialogue is sparse, there's just so much there under the surface.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 16 Aug. 2022
  • When the gang finally just hangs out, the dialogue is bleh.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 13 Jan. 2022
  • This is the full movie, but with no dialogue, fx or backgrounds... just John’s score.
    — Matt Miller, Esquire, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The arts are a way of getting people to speak and be in dialogue with each other.
    — Jane Borden, Vanities, 15 Oct. 2017

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