MONOLOGUE in a Sentence

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After the first monologue the whole company rose and surrounded Mademoiselle George, expressing their enthusiasm.

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 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 3 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 4 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 4 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 3 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 1 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.