Example sentences for: colloquy

How can you use “colloquy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The colloquy continued as follows:

  • turning every dialogue scene into a colloquy for ardent obsessives" (Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). But Cusack can't sustain the freshness of the original idea: The film "isn't nearly as clever as it thinks it is" (Rafferty, The New Yorker ).

  • Colloquial means nothing more than `used in colloquy, or conversation' and is thus no more than a high-flown term for conversational , which, as far as I know, carries no stigma.

  • Opening with a female silhouette walking away from a punitive "personnel" sign, it follows her unsteady progress down a flight of stairs and uses a staccato colloquy between her colleagues to dramatize the injustice:

  • P laying by Heart has the strident psuedosophistication of a late-night dorm room colloquy as dramatized by a sophomore busy congratulating himself for having more insight into love than all the incoming freshmen.


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