MONOLOGUE in a Sentence

Learn MONOLOGUE from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. The app collects 40,000 words and 300,000 sentences. Input your word, you get not only its meaning and example, but also some sentences' contexts in classic literature.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
Word in Sentence
 Input your word:
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of MONOLOGUE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
monologue
 n.  speech uttered by a person alone; dramatic soliloquy
Classic Sentence:
1  Stephen sat on a footstool beside his father listening to a long and incoherent monologue.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  After a long while his monologue paused.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
3  The man continued his monologue.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
4  I waited till his monologue paused again.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
5  One of them was just bringing a long monologue to a close.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In TWO GALLANTS
6  He indulged in scowls and in abrupt unfoldings of the right hand, as though he were responding to the last counsels of a sombre inward monologue.
Les Misérables (V3) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE
7  No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
8  Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now Friday.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
9  In it there was something soft and tender like the monologue of a babe.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
10  After the first monologue the whole company rose and surrounded Mademoiselle George, expressing their enthusiasm.
War and Peace(V3) By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIII
11  At times he talked to himself, and stammered lugubrious monologues in a low voice.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
Example Sentence:
1  I am not really a big fan of Sarah either but what she said in her opening monologue is true.
2  The most famous somnambulist in literature is Lady Macbeth; her monologue in the sleepwalking scene is one of the highlights of Shakespeare's play.
3  She delivered her monologue in a deadpan voice.