Example sentences for: hyphen

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

  • It depends where you put the hyphen.

  • 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 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”).

  • (A sit-up , with a hyphen, exercises your abdominal muscles, but a sit-down strike tends to exercise the tempers of management.)

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


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