Example sentences for: hyphen

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

  • 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.

  • A typical example occurs (as one might expect) at the entry for deipnosophist where a line that normally contains about 50 characters (plus spaces), has been printed with only 34 characters (plus spaces), mainly, apparently, because no one knew where to hyphen Deipnosophistai , the first word on the next line.

  • For example, the spelling of the name of the Benedictine monastery St-Benoît du Lac contains a hyphen instead of a period, as well as a circumflex accent.

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

  • (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.


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