How to use subtitle in a sentence
22 example sentences · noun, verb
Subtitle means a heading below or after a title. Example: “My old DVD player could play DivX files but didn't recognize the subtitle file, so I had to burn them in.”
More sentences with subtitle
- My old DVD player could play DivX files but didn't recognize the subtitle file, so I had to burn them in.From the entry burn
- The widespread use of subtitles felt, to me, like a lurch backward toward the silent-film era.2023 June 6, Devin Gordon, “Why Is Everyone Watching TV With the Subtitles On?”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 09 Jun 2023. From the entry doctrinaire
- He's got this book tour- what's the subtitle of his book?2023 February 28, David Axelrod, 3:57 from the start, in Axelrod calls out the 'brazenness' of DeSantis' 'non-campaign', CNN, archived…. From the entry screen door
- (subtitle) The North-South Institute, a once-venerated foreign policy think-tank, quietly shuts down.2014 September 18, Carol Goar "Another Canadian window on the world closes," The Star (Canada) (retrieved 3 Dec 2017). From the entry window on the world
- I've even got subtitles for parentisms like "you're going to poke somebody's eye out with that".1994 February 2, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic). From the entry parentism
- Well, this song is about a bus, it's wittily subtitled—I thought of this—'A Transport of Delight'.[1959 May 2, Michael Flanders, “A Transport of Delight”, in At the Drop of a Hat, [New York, N.Y.?]: Parlophone, →OCLC, PCSO 3001, audio…. From the entry omnibus
- If you don’t mind subtitles (or just so happen to know French), then please run, don’t walk, to Call My Agent.2024 August 15, Laura Hanrahan, “19 Shows You Need to Watch if You Love ‘Emily in Paris’”, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry run, don't walk
- The subtitle was motivated by a burgeoning field of rhinotillexis - yes, nose picking, a new area of scientific enquiry.2023, Lan Wu, Fu-Dong Shi, Luc Van Kaer, Therapeutic Potential of Innate and Innate-like Effector Lymphocytes in Autoimmune and…. From the entry rhinotillexis
- But its in-house translators have raced to append Chinese subtitles, finishing Chinese captions for two new episodes a day since then.2014 February 18, William Wun, “‘House of Cards’ finds avid audience in China”, in The Washington Post. From the entry binge-watcher
- Yet, as the book’s subtitle ‘Enigmas and Guesses’ suggests, Muir’s Supermannish determination is in part very clever bluster.2000, Robert Crawford, “MacDiarmid in Montrose”, in Alex Davis, Lee M[argaret] Jenkins, editors, Locations of Literary Modernism: Region…. From the entry supermannish
- "The Hand of Peril" is subtitled by its author, Mr.1915 September, Henry Brinsley, “Latest News from the Literary Trenches”, in Frank Crowninshield, editor, Vanity Fair, volume 5, number 1…. From the entry love interest
- Director Steven Spielberg deliberately omitted subtitles for scenes in Spanish in his remake of the film “West Side Story” which is currently in theaters.2021 December 18, Ching Ching Tan, “Spielberg’s West Side Story shows us the value of multilingualism”, in CNN. From the entry Spielberg
- Contrarily, the prefix “sub-” doesn’t change meaning so much as it provides specificity, as seen in the difference between “title” and “subtitle.”2020 March 14, Lindsay del Valle, “36 Spanish Prefixes That Will Increase Your Vocabulary Times 100!”, in Homeschool Spanish Academy. From the entry sub-
- The subtitle 'Adventures in Sonic Fiction' pinpointed the idea of dub as hallucinogenre, dub as a set of studio techniques for generating phantoms and phantasmagoria.2009, Simon Reynolds, Bring the Noise. From the entry hallucinogenre
- A rough-and-tumble newsprint equivalent is Wilds Woman (subtitled “Women Getting Wild Outside”) that also rounds up reviews of gear, rock groups, and “grrlz on film.”2002, Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins, The Complete Walker IV, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, pages 25–26. From the entry grrl
- He lives in a country where foreign movies are subtitled, and he had a grandmother who did not read all that well.2002, Marko Fancovic, “Plot Construction”, in Tom Dullemond, Darin Park, editors, The Complete Guide™ to Writing Fantasy, volume one…. From the entry grandsonly
- Melville’s subtitle identifies the painting—it shows a lake in the foreground and high, storm-clouded mountains behind—and adds that it was “owned by E.1995, John Hollander, “Varieties of Ecphrastic Agenda”, in The Gazer’s Spirit: Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art, Chicago, Ill.…. From the entry storm-clouded
- Modestly titled ‘Appeal’ with a more particular subtitle, Walker’s text was probably the most bodacious expression of cultural discontent and disavowal of slavery that American society had ever known.2007, Darryl Scriven, Daphne Rolle (foreword), A Dealer of Old Clothes: Philosophical Conversations with David Walker, Preface, page xiii. From the entry bodacious
- Because Big Mutha Truckers wasn’t a delicious enough pun, the subtle wordmasters at Eutechnyx thought to add an even more savory subtitle for the sequel to their brick-driving simulation.2005 October, Play, page 070. From the entry wordmaster
- I would like to give this dissertation on the apostolic world of thought in early Christian iconography the subtitle of 'In the land of the blessed' —'Μακάρων ἐνἱ χώρῳ'.2004, Arnold Provoost, “The Apostolic Way of Thought in Early Christian Iconography”, in A. Hilhorst, editor, The Apostolic Age in…. From the entry apostolic
- But unless you are also philosophical and like to listen to a lot of dialogue—or, worse yet, read reams of subtitles—I think you'd be wise to steer clear.1964 January 28, Bosley Crowther, “Movie Review: The Seventh Juror (1962)”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 Jan 2014. From the entry steer clear
- A film in French with subtitles in which nothing happens for two hours but you'll sit through it because these French films always have a bit of rumpo in somewhere.1991, Punch, volume 300, numbers 7862-7873, page 59. From the entry rumpo
Meaning of subtitle
- noun A heading below or after a title.
- noun Textual versions of the dialogue in films (and similar media such as television or video games), usually displayed at the bottom of the screen.
- verb To create subtitles for the dialogue in a film.
Questions about subtitle in a sentence
- How do you use subtitle in a sentence?
- Subtitle is used as a noun and verb. For example: “My old DVD player could play DivX files but didn't recognize the subtitle file, so I had to burn them in.”
- What is a short sentence with subtitle?
- “"The Hand of Peril" is subtitled by its author, Mr.”
- What does subtitle mean?
- Subtitle means a heading below or after a title.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: subtitle (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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