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Example sentences for: dashes

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

As Lola dashes by, the camera revolves around her mother's room, then swoops in on a TV screen where a cartoon Lola is flying down a circular staircase past a neighbor's barking dog and out into the street, where she's live-action again and ready to run for her boyfriend's life.
This work was Parkes' magisterial Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West , a book that at last stripped the cloak of anonymity from the important work of commas, periods, dashes, colons, semicolons, and countless other full- and part-time functionaries.
Even the dashes, with their suspended, rising quality, suggest the vitality of endurance.
A design in the form of a small cross that is tattooed on the left hand, between the thumb and forefinger, with lines, or dashes, radiating out from it.
The Wall Street Journal flags this story in its front-page news box, with its headline saying that the Senate's consensus "dashes Clinton's hopes" for making a deal and avoiding a trial.