Example sentences for: apostrophe

How can you use “apostrophe” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Written in 18 th century English ("magical" is spelled "magickal," for example, and the predominant punctuation marks are the dash and the apostrophe), it tells the picaresque tale of two astronomers best known for surveying the Mason-Dixon line, which separates Pennsylvania from Maryland and the American cultural North from the cultural South.

  • Use of the apostrophe to indicate possession or in combining short words, as, isn't for is not, is not considered.

  • The apostrophe has much to answer for here, as it does in everyday English.

  • ' A siding named O'Keene began as the Indian word Cheyenne but an Irishman working for the railroad decided to make it look Irish and so he changed it and added an apostrophe.

  • 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.


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