soliloquize
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- soliloquist noun
- soliloquizer noun
- soliloquizingly adverb
Etymology
Origin of soliloquize
First recorded in 1750–60; soliloqu(y) + -ize
Example Sentences
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To break up the monotony of the two-person chat screen, the actors sometimes stand farther away from the camera, and sometimes soliloquize in private messages to each other.
From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2021
Arrayed before us on Freudian couches, the Nixons and Maos soliloquize about their youthful days of personality formation.
From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2011
But did your alter egos get to soliloquize in song?
From New York Times • May 6, 2010
By night they act out their old roles, philosophize, soliloquize, dramatize the day's rebuffs, fall asleep and dream.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whew—on a roll, off to the races, put on this earth solely to soliloquize to his ginormous clay-covered shoes.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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