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Example sentences for: hyphen

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

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