Example sentences for: hyphen

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Thus, the user has to come to the dictionary already aware that peace-offering and peace-pipe are hyphenated, so they are listed under peace , while peacemaker and peacetime are solid, hence are headwords: that is not very helpful if, as is most likely, the user merely wanted to discover whether the word he was seeking is spelled with a hyphen, as two words, or solid.

  • After the hyphen, the name of the first sequence put into the group is given.

  • The reason: an inadvertent omission of a hyphen from the computer's mass of coded mathematical ascent guidance instructions.


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