Colloquy is an English word with synonyms like conference or conversation. Below you'll find 7 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Colloquy in a sentence
Colloquy meaning
- A conversation or dialogue.
- A formal conference.
- A church court held by certain Reformed denominations.
Synonyms of Colloquy
Using Colloquy
- The main meaning on this page is: A conversation or dialogue. | A formal conference. | A church court held by certain Reformed denominations.
- Useful related words include: conference, group discussion, conversation.
Context around Colloquy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Colloquy
- In this selection, "colloquy" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, extended, abstract, resulting, reaches and throwing stand out and add context to how "colloquy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an extended colloquy on whether and arranged a colloquy between huber. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "colloquy" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with colloquy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Despite her optimism, the resulting Colloquy of Poissy ended in failure on 13 October 1561, dissolving itself without her permission. (20 words)
There was not an appetite on the bench, it seemed, for Sotomayor’s much-needed injection of reality into the abstract colloquy. (22 words)
Last week's Democratic presidential debate featured an extended colloquy on whether the existence of billionaires was immoral and what could be done to eliminate them. (26 words)
Clouzot, of course, is always as invested in the practical as the philosophical, so, offhandedly, not really thinking about it, one of the participants in this colloquy reaches out to still that bulb — burning his fingers. (36 words)
As this was directed against Melanchthon himself, he protested, so that his opponents left, greatly to the satisfaction of the Roman Catholics who now broke off the colloquy, throwing all blame upon the Protestants. (34 words)
The sacristan's entry, accompanied by his sprightly buffo theme, lifts the mood, as does the generally light-hearted colloquy with Cavaradossi which follows after the latter's entrance. (29 words)
Example sentences (7)
Last week's Democratic presidential debate featured an extended colloquy on whether the existence of billionaires was immoral and what could be done to eliminate them.
Clouzot, of course, is always as invested in the practical as the philosophical, so, offhandedly, not really thinking about it, one of the participants in this colloquy reaches out to still that bulb — burning his fingers.
There was not an appetite on the bench, it seemed, for Sotomayor’s much-needed injection of reality into the abstract colloquy.
As this was directed against Melanchthon himself, he protested, so that his opponents left, greatly to the satisfaction of the Roman Catholics who now broke off the colloquy, throwing all blame upon the Protestants.
Despite her optimism, the resulting Colloquy of Poissy ended in failure on 13 October 1561, dissolving itself without her permission.
The sacristan's entry, accompanied by his sprightly buffo theme, lifts the mood, as does the generally light-hearted colloquy with Cavaradossi which follows after the latter's entrance.
To adjust the matter, the magistrates arranged a colloquy between Huber and Musculus (September 2, 1587), in which the former represented the universalism, the latter the particularism, of grace.