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Examples of “soliloquy” in a Sentence

3 example sentences showing how to use soliloquy, grouped by meaning.

noun A speech in a play in which a character, alone on stage, speaks their thoughts aloud so the audience can hear them.

  • Hamlet's 'To be, or not to be' is the most quoted soliloquy in English.
  • The soliloquy lets us hear what the character would never admit to anyone else.

noun Any long speech someone makes to themselves rather than to a listener.

  • He launched into a soliloquy about the state of the roads while I washed up.