Example sentences for: comma

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

  • Unfortunate is the omission of a comma to set apart daddy as a term of address in the illustration for heinie (American for `bottom'):

  • On the other hand, it is admissible, as we have already seen, to throw solvers off the scent with an occasional comma in the “wrong” place.

  • In an On Language column (April 26, 1993), William Safire called for doing away with the serial comma to save a projected 12 billion commas nationwide.

  • "Because of an ancient Scottish curse, anyone who writes a life of these four historical personages ends up reproducing, word for word and comma for comma, a long-out-of-print biography that they have never even read!"

  • I wrote to him then and thereafter, giving examples from the Times of reading comprehension impeded by lack of the comma.


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