How to Use soliloquy in a Sentence

soliloquy

noun
  • Maybe there would be a soliloquy from the pirate, or from the pigs.
    — James Marcus, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2019
  • His farewell to the worm was not unlike the soliloquy of a movie villain about to dispatch the hero.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023
  • In the nearly 30 years since, the soliloquy has taken on a life of its own.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Do it in English, but do the soliloquies in French, maybe.
    — Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 15 Jan. 2026
  • All the women have soliloquys, their chance in a spotlight shining only on them.
    — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 17 June 2019
  • August tried to imagine what his mother would say about this homey little soliloquy.
    — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2020
  • Songs are often like soliloquies and call on some of the same performance techniques.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 29 July 2019
  • The relevant social-science soliloquy is not to poll or not to poll.
    — Emma Green, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2015
  • My mom and her soliloquies, Mom being Mom.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Once again, the Western canon’s most famous paramours have traded soliloquies for pointe shoes.
    — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Apr. 2023
  • His soliloquy was a mixture of excitement with traces of melancholy.
    — Katrina Brooker, The Hive, 1 July 2018
  • Because these are not short spews of text Fishburne has penned for us; they are run on sentences and legato soliloquies.
    — Brittani Samuel, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
  • As effective as the scenes are in the finished film, Zhao was torn about including the soliloquy.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2025
  • There's also a licensing fee tied to the use of Sagan's soliloquy, in an amount not being released.
    — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The legislators who scolded the nervous speakers then went on with their own, windy soliloquies.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Without Marlowe, there might have been no iambic pentameter, and no soliloquies.
    — Isaac Butler, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2025
  • So much music is now a soliloquy with a producer in a room with Ableton talking to themselves.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 5 Apr. 2021
  • But Lawther’s last soliloquy is delivered at the same glacial, meandering pace as his first.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 30 June 2022
  • Keepers ends the first half of the show with a lengthy, poetic, oblique soliloquy about art and science and freedom and discipline.
    — Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 20 May 2017
  • Their antics and soliloquies, however, do something to ease the long hours on the hospital wards and the sickness of lives that fail to change.
    — Laura Kolbe, WSJ, 12 July 2019
  • One of the great thrills for me, even though the movie was not successful, was when Jack Nicholson sang the entire soliloquy.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Edgard Varèse’s 1936 soliloquy for flute, after which her series is named.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • But his quietly delivered advice at the film’s end is the kind of hard-to-forget soliloquy of which every actor dreams.
    — Margy Rochlin, latimes.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Logan was an irresistible brute, able to pack a Shakespeare soliloquy’s worth of emotion into a two-word curse.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 26 May 2023
  • The cast of Hollywood’s hot labor summer has been rife with villain roles and star-making soliloquies.
    — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
  • In a way, Hamnet’s treatment of the soliloquy also updates the passage.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2025
  • After the loss, Von Miller went all Hamlet on us, baring his soul in a football soliloquy.
    — Joe Nguyen, The Denver Post, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Candles burn, and each of the five offers something like a solo or soliloquy, though most of the talking gets done by Martin, the teacher.
    — Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
  • His prose has an oratorical flair, like a vinous soliloquy summoning us to enjoy the pleasures of the grape.
    — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Even the man who wrote eloquent romantic soliloquies that have endured centuries still royally pissed off his wife on the regular.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025

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