DIALECTICAL in a Sentence

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35 example sentences for DIALECTICAL, such as:

1. 'Why,' he began, in the broad slow dialect.
2. The immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English.
3. It was difficult to understand the local dialect.
4. Continental dialects, African dialects, Hottentot.
5. 'You come then,' he said, using the intonation of the dialect.

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dialect
 n.  vocabulary that is for a specific group of people
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  In India the natives spoke different dialects which only a few people understood, so she was not surprised when Martha used words she did not know.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  I did not, like him, attempt a critical knowledge of their dialects, for I did not contemplate making any other use of them than temporary amusement.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
3  Amid the jargon of Indian dialects that he now plainly heard, it was easy to distinguish not only words, but sentences, in the patois of the Canadas.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
4  Continental dialects, African dialects, Hottentot.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
5  This service Plautus rendered, consciously or unconsciously, by making two Carthaginian soldiers talk Phoenician; that service Moliere rendered, by making so many of his characters talk Levantine and all sorts of dialects.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
6  No outlaw in this land uses the dialect in which thou hast spoken.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  His voice on the last words had fallen into the heavy broad drag of the dialect.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  perhaps also in mockery, because there had been no trace of dialect before.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
9  She looked at him, getting his meaning through the fog of the dialect.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
10  'Why,' he began, in the broad slow dialect.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
11  'You come then,' he said, using the intonation of the dialect.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
12  It puzzled her, his queer, persistent wanting her, when there was nothing between them, when he never really spoke to her, and in spite of herself she resented the dialect.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
13  She hated the dialect: the thee and the tha and the thysen.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
14  'Tha's got such a nice tail on thee,' he said, in the throaty caressive dialect.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
15  So furious was he that he was hardly articulate, and when he did speak it was in a much broader and more Western dialect than any which we had heard from him in the morning.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
Example Sentence:
1  In China, for example, where a number of different dialects are spoken, the same character can be pronounced in myriad ways.
2  Ziad typically adopts the colloquialism of his generation and effectively captures village and mountain dialects as well.
3  A city is a whole world in miniature, and different groups maintain a group identity which can result in them maintaining different dialects.
4  The Creole language is really various dialects arranged on a continuum.
5  The immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English.
6  As he told a story, he often imitated the players, speaking in flawless dialect.
7  It was difficult to understand the local dialect.
8  The proportion of the population still speaking the dialect is very small.