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What is a good sentence for dialect?

"Y'all come back now, ya hear?" she said, her Southern drawl thick as molasses.

This sentence demonstrates dialect through:

* "Y'all": A common Southern expression for "you all"

* "Ya hear": A casual contraction of "you hear"

* "thick as molasses": A simile specific to Southern culture, highlighting the slow, drawn-out nature of the speaker's accent.

This sentence captures a specific regional dialect (Southern) and uses language that is characteristic of that region.

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