dialect

in a sentence

She spoke Mandarin slightly blurred with a Shanghai dialect.  (source) Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club, 1989

They ... amazed the students with their vast knowledge of not only French, but also English, Swahili, and several African dialects.  (source) Sharon M. Draper, Tears of a Tiger, 1994

I tried to speak Mandingo with him, but he only knew a little, and only the northern dialect.  (source) Alexs Pate, Amistad, 1997

The girl who looked at me said something in a dialect I could not understand a word of.  (source) Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929

I am myself a student of Indian dialects;  (source) George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, 1912

So the names Dyaus, Zeus, lov, and Tyr are dialectal variants of the same word.†  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect  (source) Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884

I've done my best to capture the language with which each person spoke and wrote: dialogue appears in native dialects; passages from diaries and other personal writings are quoted exactly as written.†  (source) Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, 2010

addressing him in every dialect  (source) Edward E. Hale, The Man Without a Country, 1863

But underneath the public posture, Franklin, like so many of Brown's upwardly mobile minority students, is becoming skilled in the many dialects he'll need to get ahead.†  (source) Ron Suskind, A Hope in the Unseen, 1998

Playing a pawn in this foolish game is one thing, but to be insulted with minstrel show dialect ...†  (source) Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game, 1978

I knew the dialects.†  (source) Rick Bragg, All Over but the Shoutin', 1997

"You sure giving folks something to talk 'bout with that car of yours, Hammer," Mr. Granger said in his folksy dialect as he sat down with a grunt across from Papa.†  (source) Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, 1976