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This helpful guide will show you how to use dialogue in a sentence. It will show you the definition of dialogue, as well as synonyms, antonyms, and the types of connotations that the word can carry.

Usage for dialogue

Definition: conversation or exchange of ideas between at least two people

Part(s) of speech: noun

Antonyms: silence; soliloquy

Synonyms: communication; discourse; discussion

Here are but a few sample sentences of the word in action!

• I don’t know what you were thinking with that presentation, but we are clearly on different pages. We need to have a dialogue.
• The dialogue in the film Before Sunrise is so authentic that it feels like I’m watching a documentary.
• Our therapist recommended that I start a dialogue with Marie about my insecurities regarding her intimate friendship with Gary.
• If the two sides of this war could just sit down and have a polite dialogue, I really think the conflict would come to an end.
• Elmore Leonard is truly the master novelist. I think that’s why so much of his work has been adapted–because the dialogue translates so well for performers.
• Remember, we have that meeting with Sally’s teacher at noon. I think it will just be a quick dialogue.
• The images in Terrence Malick’s films are so breathtaking it requires no dialogue to appreciate them.
• Your test scores have been dropping for a few months now. I suggest we have a dialogue after school today to figure out how we can bring them up.
• Because this is a play about two people being stuck in an elevator, we really have to make the dialogue captivating. We don’t have any visuals to fall back on.
• My landlord asked if we could have a dialogue. I think he’s going to tell me that he’s raising the rent.
• Talk therapy allows one to better understand oneself through the power of dialogue.
• If you want to have a real dialogue, then you’ll have to come out of that room. I can’t hear a thing you’re saying.
• My teenager refuses to have a dialogue with me. Her head is always on her phone, and she just nods or shakes her head when I ask her a question.
• I wonder what I could learn from an hour-long dialogue with the late genius Gertrude Stein.
• If I had a dialogue with an AI robot, would it learn based on our conversation?