dialect

Example Sentences

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In preparation to play the prodigal twins in “Sinners,” Jordan told The Times that he trained with dialect coach Beth McGuire, who also worked on Coogler’s “Black Panther” and its sequel, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2026

She said her captors were all masked and spoke in the Syrian Arabic dialect.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

He was a keen student of dialect; doing movies in the South, he meandered down backroads, learning just the right way to frame a question in rural Mississippi or deliver a compliment in west Texas.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026

She whet his palate with detailed reports dissecting the southern Italian dialect spoken by his grandmother.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

The younger woman had not only spoken in Zamani, but in her own dialect; she was a Gede like her.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray