How to Use subtitle in a Sentence

subtitle

1 of 2 noun
  • The use of subtitles was key for that.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Her films are very hard to find with subtitles.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Bess peeked over the counter and read the subtitle on the page.
    — Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Or how to turn the subtitles on.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 12 June 2026
  • The movie will be shown with subtitles.
    — Jeffrey Miller, Daily News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • In fact, as recently as two weeks ago, the show did have a colon and a subtitle.
    — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 17 Nov. 2025
  • The subtitles are easy to miss due to their small size and tendency to move around the screen.
    — PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024
  • For books, that comes down to the cover, title and subtitle.
    — Malana Van Tyler, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The piece’s subtitle is for real.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The photo choice and subtitle sing.
    — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Don't let subtitles scare you away from watching these haunting films.
    — Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
  • But the subtitle provides an opening to disrupt the old talk and make space for new ideas.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The subtitle of your book combines dark matter, space-time and dreams deferred.
    — Lisa Selin Davis, CNN, 2 May 2021
  • Try turning on the subtitles and sing and yodel away as a family.
    — Karen Cicero, Parents, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Most of what Devlin read at the time was subtitles while watching movies or operas.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The subtitle came in after months of waiting, and the first trailer dropped quite a while after that.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 31 Oct. 2021
  • The streaming and early access to shows from Japan with subtitles and dubs.
    — Nick Statt, The Verge, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The show has made a few changes though starting with the new subtitle Moments in Love.
    — Marcus Jones, EW.com, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The movie will be in Japanese with subtitles.
    — Jeffrey Miller, Daily News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The only downside is when you’re caught in some intense car chase or shootout and have to keep glancing at subtitles.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • That job was the beginning of the adventure in the film’s subtitle.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Jan. 2023
  • One carried subtitles burned into the image; the other did not.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 May 2026
  • The subtitle, however, proves as much a warning as a promise.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 1 Aug. 2023
  • That’s the immodest but accurate subtitle of a new book that charts his career.
    — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
  • True to the show’s reputation, this second of two special episodes has a subtitle that’s a bit too racy for print.
    — oregonlive, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Hey, who ever said actors liked reading subtitles?
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The film is in Spanish with English subtitles.
    — Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2026
  • As its lengthy subtitle suggests, the movie frees the character from being a sidekick.
    — New York Times, 20 July 2022
  • But the theme that commands Chafkin’s keenest attention is the one promised in his subtitle.
    — Sebastian Mallaby, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Start with a blueprint for the book that has a working title, working subtitle and chapter outline.
    — Henry Devries, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023

subtitle

2 of 2 verb
  • Beginning next year, the videos will be subtitled into many languages.
    — USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2017
  • The series could use a winner that’s not subtitled Warhammer.
    — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 18 Jan. 2019
  • The film is considered by many to be the first subtitled for the American market.
    — Sandra E. Garcia, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020
  • There’s a whole life around the world for French-language productions, subtitled, that travel.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 15 May 2026
  • Signs all over ask that visitors not touch or climb on the art works—even though Lee subtitles the work Come In.
    — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian, 3 Oct. 2019
  • It is subtitled The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin.
    — Joan Juliet Buck, Air Mail, 27 Sep. 2025
  • That no longer survives in a marketplace where dialogue gets replayed, subtitled and memed.
    — Remy Blumenfeld, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Sung in Italian, the opera is subtitled in English and Spanish.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Ayling-Ellis urged broadcasters and streamers to subtitle all of their content.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The video offers the unique opportunity to hear the players' complaints up close and subtitled.
    — SI.com, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Season two of One Piece is subtitled Into the Grand Line.
    — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Each of the videos released so far are subtitled with a single Chinese character that makes up the phrase 起承轉結, or 기승전결 in Korean.
    — Tamar Herman, Billboard, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Notably, the performance was subtitled in English for viewers.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2025
  • The violence is often numbing, and the translations — the movie is subtitled — are sometimes as deadly as the swordsmanship.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Some studios are hands-on in the captioning process, and others ask producers to deliver content to them with subtitling already complete.
    — Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 June 2023
  • What went into the decision not to over-explain Bob’s accent, the use of Jamaican Patois or to subtitle the film?
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The success of the film — which was dubbed in 47 languages and subtitled in 56 — extends far beyond any single territory.
    — Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 4 Mar. 2026
  • While on the run, Zachs used two aliases and polished his Spanish by watching English-language that were subtitled in Spanish.
    — Dave Altimari, courant.com, 24 July 2019
  • The first exhibit on the calendar is subtitled, aptly, Memories of the Future.
    — Jackson Arn, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The sweeping restrictions have motivated fans of shows and movies that run afoul of censorship rules to subtitle them in Chinese and upload unauthorized copies online.
    — Nectar Gan, CNN, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Technology remains a hot topic, notably the use of AI in classic film preservation and restoration, with a focus this year on subtitling and dubbing.
    — Lise Pedersen, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The season, subtitled Pearl Islands, aired in the fall of 2003, saw Fairplay, now 52, finish in third place.
    — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
  • The franchise has since expanded with a video game, subtitled The Road Ahead, and a comic book, subtitled Storm Warning.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The films are subtitled in English and the ambition, Bereczki said, is to reach audiences across Europe, even where distribution is weak.
    — Lise Pedersen, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Predator is completely subtitled.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Season 2, subtitled Arise from the Shadow, saw Jinwoo further master his necromancer abilities on a mission to save his mother.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
  • However, interest in the project has ballooned, Columbu said, with more than 2,500 people subtitling their applications for the scheme.
    — Byeleanor Pringle, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The platform features content across multiple genres including romance, thriller, variety and fantasy, all subtitled in local languages.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Tony Kushner makes the story more relevant to a modern audience (Spielberg doesn’t subtitle the Spanish dialogue, which is nice).
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The goal of the 21-minute documentary, subtitled in English and Portuguese, was to explain the heavy history of the word to Afro-Brazilians.
    — Kiratiana Freelon, The Root, 6 June 2018

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