Example Sentences

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Far more problematically, in the classroom, rather than continue trying to pronounce my words as dialectically neutral as I could, most often, I chose not to speak at all.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2021

They need to become border-crossers who can think dialectically, and learn not only how to consume culture but also produce it.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2019

Dublin speech is closer, dialectically, to Texas than it is to Cork.

From Salon • May 2, 2010

History � man's history �was the record of dialectically competing classes whose motives were as simply biological as those found in Darwin.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Causey” is still used dialectically in England for a paved or cobbled footpath.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various