Example sentences for: subtitles

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

  • Here spirited excerpts from three or four operas are performed most nights, with simultaneous English subtitles provided (as well as a choice of snacks).

  • I was also lucky to see Batman Forever in more pleasant surroundings than the New Times Square--in a high-modern movie palace in Helsinki, with an audience of hip Finns who giggled at subtitles that seemed to go their own way from the script.

  • Films with Mandarin dialogue also have Chinese subtitles, for the benefit of Cantonese speakers, and sometimes subtitles in English.

  • In the silent-film era, language did not concern the censors, apart from occasional complaints at some vulgarity in subtitles.

  • Chinese opera becomes more comprehensible and enjoyable when the plot is known (it’s usually a historic drama or tragic love story) and when subtitles (in English) are projected on a side-screen.


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