Example sentences for: hyphen

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

  • 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 pronunciation, before the v . At rates of exchange in early January, ¥200 is equivalent to $355, which seems a lot to spend, in pounds or dollars, to get it wrong.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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


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