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Example sentences for: apostrophe

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The device is not without its pitfalls however, as witness the following: Henry David's a Restaurant . The combination of the possessive and the apposition creates a solecism unless we assume that a word was omitted--perhaps Pub or Saloon . I have passed the sign several times in the past few years and recently noted that it had been cleaned and repainted, but the apostrophe remains.
Sinatraism has become the house religion at men's magazines such as Details and Esquire . Later this fall, Esquire writer Bill Zehme will release The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin' (his apostrophe), a 245-page guide to Frankness.
"Sex, when it happens" for newlyweds, reports the Journal , "is often an apostrophe, not an exclamation point."
And what is the apostrophe doing at the end?
Stedman's Medical Dictionary , 26th edition (1995), argues that Graves ' is correct, while the Churchill lexicon (1989) omits both apostrophe and s with Graves but keeps both with Parry's disease , another eponym for hyperthyroidism.