Example sentences for: hyphenated

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

  • Thus, the user has to come to the dictionary already aware that peace-offering and peace-pipe are hyphenated, so they are listed under peace , while peacemaker and peacetime are solid, hence are headwords: that is not very helpful if, as is most likely, the user merely wanted to discover whether the word he was seeking is spelled with a hyphen, as two words, or solid.

  • Nicknaming, it seems fair to conclude, is an activity that has long delighted and entertained all Americans--white, colored, hyphenated, and just plain--and the fiercely contested clash over “Indian” nicknames appears to be largely due to overzealous activism and misdirected social reform.

  • The fourth volume listed hyphenated forms in the same way.

  • General Motors made an announcement Monday involving two important words, one hyphenated, unlikely to show up in any of its forthcoming TV commercials.

  • As in other British dictionaries, headwords are not syllabified, so one cannot use dictionaries in England to determine where a word may be conventionally hyphenated.


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