How to Use dialogue in a Sentence

dialogue

1 of 2 noun
  • 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.
  • There was so much dialogue to learn all the time.
    — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 13 Apr. 2026
  • So what if the role had no dialogue?
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2026
  • There’s not a lot of dialogue in the film.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 27 Sep. 2025
  • This yields a lot of clever dialogue—and yet.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The dialogue is there for us, not them.
    — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2026
  • There are about five lines of dialogue.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
  • In a dialogue if a line doesn’t need to be said, it should be cut out.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Where did that dialogue spark from?
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 27 June 2026
  • Chat with your ghost guest over coffee and open up a dialogue.
    — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 15 June 2023
  • Richard writes so much dialogue.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 22 June 2026
  • The pauses are just as much dialogue as the words.
    — Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 6 Jan. 2026
  • There are long stretches of the movie that don't have a lot of dialogue.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 15 July 2022
  • This current dialogue doesn't seem to be about any of those things.
    — Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR, 7 Jan. 2026
  • That was my starting point for all the dialogue.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The second was a dialogue with my soon-to-be twelve-year-old.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Guatemala called for more dialogue.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC news, 4 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • But my first part of that, which is recording his dialogue, is sort of done.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 16 June 2020
  • At least half the film must be without dialogue.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 16 May 2026
  • There’s no combat, no dialogue, and no need to rush.
    — Keith Langston, Space.com, 31 May 2026
  • Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue.
    — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue!
    — Colleen Barry, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue!
    — Jane Tyska, Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • So much of this film is about what is not on screen — what is not in dialogue, not in the script.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 20 Feb. 2026

dialogue

2 of 2 verb
  • There will be time at the end of the program for audience members to dialogue with the performers.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2021
  • But one of the leaders insists that the movement is not opposed to dialogue in principle.
    — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Who knows, had Korach and his group agreed to seriously dialogue with Moses, Moses might have calmed them down.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 7 June 2021
  • Visitors are encouraged to dialogue with artists whose works-in-progress are on view June 4 through June 25.
    — Matt Cooperlistings Coordinator, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2022
  • Perspective sharing will open the gateway to further dialogue that’s based on a true understanding of your desires and your family’s desires.
    — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2019
  • Typically done after a project is completed, snapshots enable managers to dialogue with employees about their performance while the project is still top of mind.
    — Lisa Bodell, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Maybe the past and present aren’t mutually exclusive, this exhibition suggests, but can dialogue with and inform one another.
    — OregonLive.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Be sure to regularly dialogue with your employees about stress management and burnout, formally through surveys and informally through check-ins.
    — Naz Beheshti, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Knowles sisters Beyoncé and Solange have released solo albums that dialogue with each other obliquely.
    — Carl Wilson, Slate Magazine, 10 July 2017
  • Is Cuba willing to dialogue with Cuban dissidents and grant amnesty to political prisoners?
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2026
  • Despite their criticisms, both Tillerson and defense officials have stressed the importance of finding a path to dialogue with Moscow.
    — Karen Deyoung, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2018
  • How might our politics look different if sincerity claims were an invitation to dialogue rather than a conversation-stopper?
    — Charles McCrary, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Across the border in Mali, the country’s transitional government has signaled openness to dialogue with insurgents.
    — Shola Lawal, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Charlie had an incredible ability to dialogue with folks on all points of the political spectrum through the use of factual reasoning and persuasion.
    — Letters To The Editor, Oc Register, 11 Sep. 2025
  • In his spare time away from the stage, Davis dedicates his life to befriending and dialoguing with white supremacists and members of the KKK.
    — Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 17 Sep. 2025
  • But instead of dialoguing with demonstrators, the Brazilian government has responded most often with arrests, tear gas, and rubber bullets.
    — Catherine Osborn, Foreign Affairs, 26 Oct. 2016
  • The strategy of Republican and Democratic Commanders in Chief alike has been to reduce tensions through an openness to dialogue rather than threats to further confrontation.
    — John Walcott, Time, 3 June 2020
  • The modernist reinterpretation of the bathhouse dialogued with the natural surroundings in the courtyard of the Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea on Via Palestro, 14.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The modernist reinterpretation of the bathhouse dialogued with the natural surroundings within the courtyard of the Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea on Via Palestro, 14.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019

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