How to Use diegetic in a Sentence

diegetic

adjective
  • But all the music is diegetic or in montage.
    Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2025
  • So, the songs are all diegetic, where everyone present acknowledges them.
    Jenelle Riley, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The bridge is Rumi alone, singing her feelings like a musical that is not diegetic.
    Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025
  • And then the diegetic sound fades out, the non-diegetic score kicks in, and the scene abruptly shifts away from Everett’s forever-unknown number.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 14 May 2026
  • There are diegetic musical numbers that imply the monsters have the ability to mind-control a room and make everybody dance their favorite choreography.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Huntr/x songs live in Demon Hunters’s universe as diegetic pop music and not just coincidentally very melodically buoyant exclamations of a character’s feelings and goals.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2025

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