soliloquize

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of soliloquize Not just when Juicy soliloquizes across the proscenium or Tedra casts us some side-eye. Jesse Green, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023 Not everyone can soliloquize like Gaga. Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Sep. 2022 Written by Vaiva Grainytė, scored by Lina Lapelytė and directed by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, the opera, which won the top prize at the 2019 Venice Biennale, unfolds over five hours as various performers soliloquize about the adversities of climate change. Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2021 After all, no dentist is asked to soliloquize about how a tooth extraction reflects life choices. Zoe Hewitt, Variety, 24 Jan. 2022 One of which, thankfully, will involve Ahmed mournfully soliloquizing. Rebecca Keegan, vanityfair.com, 17 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for soliloquize
Verb
  • Zoltan Istvan writes and speaks on transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and the future.
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025
  • But six months is still a long time to remember who everybody is on a show with dozens of speaking roles, most of them played by actors in identical jumpsuits, and/or wearing masks.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2025
Verb
  • Progressives reciting tired talking points about democracy being under attack and Orange Man being bad is the exact kind of fresh, novel idea that could turn things around for the struggling party!
    Grace Curley, Boston Herald, 14 June 2025
  • The ceremony featured all nine women together, taking turns reciting prayers and reading from a 120-year-old Torah, a relic from the Holocaust.
    Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 12 June 2025
Verb
  • Yours to treasure: to recite under your breath, to whisper in someone’s ear, to declaim at a party.
    A.O. Scott, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • Does Joyce’s fellow drama kid Alan (Eric Wiegand) hoist a skull aloft and declaim some Shakespeare in a bad English accent?
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • There was no debate on education, for instance, the subject on which Cash had been most keen to expatiate; indeed, there were no debates at all.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
  • Ostensibly, further studies are encouraged to expatiate this understanding.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 7 Jan. 2024
Verb
  • The sermonizing lands hardest near the beginning and end of Life of Pi, where director Max Webster lets things get a little slack and starry-eyed.
    Vulture, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Raised in the segregated south, he was steeped in the tradition of Confederate preachers who sermonized to their flocks in the CSA on the holiness of white supremacy and characterized the Christian god as inherently racist.
    Jared Yates Sexton, The New Republic, 25 Mar. 2020
Verb
  • During the broadcast Hudson interrupted a question about their relationship, leading to backlash and discourse over her role in the coach’s professional life.
    Glamour, Glamour, 12 May 2025
  • Hypothetical question sparks discourse Celebrity eaglets growing up fast as internet watches on: Meet Sunny and Gizmo River otters usually live up to 12.9 years in captivity, according to Oregon Zoo.
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 2 May 2025
Verb
  • Coaches, who represent their schools, are strongly encouraged to work with officials rather than harangue them.
    Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 21 May 2025
  • Angela was introduced in the series premiere as the ex-wife of Tommy Norris (played by Billy Bob Thornton), seen only in haranguing FaceTime calls.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 10 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Nonetheless, the missing performers were lectured by Richard Grenell, Trump’s new president of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts—a man with, inevitably, no experience in any of them—that performers must perform for people of all political parties.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
  • At the Cooper Union in New York in November, Sumner again lectured on Adams’s theory, while a group of Republicans and radical abolitionists sat behind his podium on the stage.
    Zaakir Tameez June 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Soliloquize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soliloquize. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!