Words similar to hyphen

Example sentences for: hyphen

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

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.)
"7-Eleven plans to recall 2 million cups designed to hold its newest extra-extra-large soda, 'The Big-Ass Gulp,' after it was discovered that a printing error had placed the hyphen between 'Ass' and 'Gulp' "-- Tim Carvell
The Hyphen's the Charm
The reason: an inadvertent omission of a hyphen from the computer's mass of coded mathematical ascent guidance instructions.