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Example sentences for: apostrophe
How can you use “apostrophe” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
A step size is drawn at random from a triangular distribution centered at zero with range [- μ ,+ μ ]. The first of the two chosen parameters is incremented by the chosen step size, and the second is decremented by the same quantity, so that is maintained, where the apostrophe indicates a proposed parameter value.
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.
There, possessive is defined as having possession and apostrophe as In rhetoric, a diversion of speech to another person or In grammar, the contraction of a word; as, tho', for though.
Use of the apostrophe to indicate possession or in combining short words, as, isn't for is not, is not considered.
By 1988 the editors of Dorland's 28th edition had deleted three eponymous entries for hyperthyroidism, retaining Graves but now as Graves disease , the second s and its possessive apostrophe banished.