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 most people happily went on introducing words like le workshop, le tour-operator (they insist on the hyphen), le self (self-service restaurant), le must (the thing to wear), le pick-up (the truck or the record player, not the girl), le hi-fi (pronounce: “eefee”).
(If you want my advice, settle on one large dictionary as a standard and look up any compounds it contains, following it slavishly: your writing is more important than whether vice president has a hyphen or not.
Also, as the author acknowledges, “This is not meant to be a definitive lexicon of Australian-English,” a true enough statement even without the extraneous hyphen.
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.
So Melville wrote Moby-Dick (1851) and John Buchan's autobiography was called Memory Hold-the-Door (1940), but Robertson Davies wrote Tempest Tost (1951), with no hyphen.