Sample Sentences for
soliloquy
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    Why, not only does every last one of them demand its moment on the stage, it insists upon making a soliloquy full of weighty pauses and artful hesitations and then leaps into an encore at the slightest hint of applause.  (source)
    soliloquy = long self-centered speech
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    The general's shattered hip—and all of the ensuing complications, the pneumonia, blood poisoning, the protracted stay at the nursing home—ended Khala Jamila's long-running soliloquies about her own health.  (source)
    soliloquies = self-centered speeches
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    Hamlet's soliloquy, you know; the most celebrated thing in Shakespeare.  (source)
    soliloquy = a speech made to oneself
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    A week later, when Hema and Ghosh came home from work, they heard Rosina's wailing soliloquy, loud as ever, no different than when they'd left for work that morning.  (source)
    soliloquy = long self-centered speech
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    He had written to Ariane, and his first letter to her had begun with the thought that her death had made his letters to her soliloquies.†  (source)
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    Between this soliloquy and the baby melting down, not to mention Eli witnessing it all, I could literally feel my temperature rising.  (source)
    soliloquy = long, uninterrupted speech made to oneself
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    My mother's fussing soliloquies always irritated and depressed us.†  (source)
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    These observations were partly addressed to the old gentleman, partly to Kate, and partly delivered in soliloquy.  (source)
    soliloquy = as though talking to oneself
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    This was exactly what no one would have expected, and of course villains were not announced with hisses or soliloquies, they did not come cloaked in black, with ugly expressions.†  (source)
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    Adam was always very good as Hamlet giving his To Be or Not to Be soliloquy.†  (source)
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    But much as he enjoyed the first fond soliloquies about Pope John Paul, Mortenson learned that, after enough vodka, Dudzinski simply spoke to no one in particular.†  (source)
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    As the boards shuddered under her weight, the soliloquy she had been muttering in the front hall grew louder and louder, coming clearly to the ears of the family in the dining room.†  (source)
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    The time approaches when these soliloquies shall be shared.†  (source)
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