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.
• The slang had its own rules, its own politics, its own dialect.
  — Caleb Madison, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2023
• The other one was the dialect in that movie about Steve Jobs.
  — Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
• Who knew a simple twist in dialect would leave Nagy a touch sheepish?
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 28 July 2019
• The screenplay was written with a very rarefied dialect in mind.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 24 Aug. 2021
• Nashville's part of a region called the southern dialect zone.
  — Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 20 Aug. 2025
• Tell me more about the Fiuman dialect!
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 9 Nov. 2025
• Your words have to be clear, especially with the southern dialect in such a wordy song.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 26 Apr. 2023
• And a lot of the dialect {in the play} reflects the South in general.
  — al, 23 Aug. 2019
• Branagh wrote much of Belfast‘s dialogue with an Irish dialect in mind.
  — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Speaking the Taiwanese dialect in schools was subject to fines.
  — Li Yuan, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• To that end, Foreman has worked with dialect coach-to-the-stars Denise Woods.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2024
• The flat, flaky bread was laced with lard, which is called saim in Mallorqui, a Catalan dialect.
  — Dorothy Hernandez, CNN, 25 Feb. 2022
• The guys in the gang speak a local dialect, like everyone else in Trieste.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
• The use of dialect suggests that the hustler is black, drawing complaints that the poem is racist.
  — Christopher M. Finan, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2018
• By the way, yinzer is a term for Pittsburghers that plays on the regional dialect.
  — Matt Moret, New York Times, 21 May 2026
• 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
• The Ramayana has hundreds of versions — across states, dialects, castes.
  — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
• The clash of dialects and styles of speech is jarring, and this mishmash of comedy and drama rarely rings true.
  — Chicago Reader, 4 Oct. 2017
• But what’s fun about this line-less role is that Jack’s main gig at Lucasfilm is as a dialect coach.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 17 Dec. 2017
• Her dialect was hard to understand—what Chinese call tu hua, the language of the soil.
  — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2013
• Jones and Brody learned Hungarian and worked with a dialect coach for the movie.
  — Carole Horst, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
• The film is shot in Mandarin Chinese and Dai dialect.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Feb. 2026
• There's a lot of sounds that Russians make that the American dialect does not have.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 11 July 2021
• The dialects are trickier than the crisp Mandarin up north, the food sweeter.
  — Chris Schalkx, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2020
• Nearby is Fwala, a Qatari dialect word for a dessert assortment served to guests.
  — Rachel Morris, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2026