Example sentences for: hyphenated

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

  • They have no duty to a hyphenated consciousness.

  • [In the early 1960s I designed a hyphenation program (for automatic typesetting) based on a logic of prefix-root-suffix combined with a table look-up (for anomalies: for instance, before analysis of a word ending in -ing , the word would be checked against a list including thing, bring, string , and other words that could not be hyphenated).

  • After all, the use of a hyphen in adverb/adjective compounds is a matter of style, which can be described in a rule: in position before a noun, compounds with well --indeed, any not ending in - ly --like well-heeled, well-known, well-thought-out , are hyphenated, as in well-heeled gambler, well-known man-about-town, a well-thought-out plan ; but when they are in predicative position, as in Is she well heeled enough to sit in on our game?

  • Thus it is important to point out that the strictly co-linear microsynteny we detect between Drosophila species differs from the 'hyphenated' microsynteny with multiple gene losses and gains between Drosophila and Anopheles [ 32].

  • Why, then list thousands of hyphenated well -words?


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