Words similar to hyphen

Example sentences for: hyphen

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

But, as a reviewer in the Irish Times noted, adding that hyphen "loses the contractive effect on the male appendages of an early-morning dip."
Other examples are rosy-fingered, redcoat, high-potency (vitamin) , and, indeed, all such compounds that might be spelled as two words in predicative position but are usually written with a hyphen when in attributive position.
The reason: an inadvertent omission of a hyphen from the computer's mass of coded mathematical ascent guidance instructions.
For instance, if a Brit pronounces the word (as many do) conTROVersy, then the hyphen ought to come after the v, not as in standard US in early January, fore the v.
But publishers are not bound by such variety: neatness is a virtue in publishing newspapers, magazines, and books, and no publisher who produced a style book that required all such compounds to be consistently spelled with or without a hyphen could be subjected to criticism for yielding randomness to logic.