Example sentences for: hyphenated

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

  • The reason is that OUP have cleaved to their favourite structural approach to the listing of compounds, phrases, and hyphenated words by nesting them beneath the “main” word.

  • Typesetters in England seem to know that the words Eng-land and Eng-lish are so hyphenated, a practice that has eluded many American compositors and proofreaders, including those working for some of the “best” publishers.

  • 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.

  • Spelling and conventional hyphenation can be linked; while I noted not so much as a single typographical error in this book, I saw once again confirmation of the encroaching ignorance of those who write automatic hyphenation programs for computers, presumably employed in the production of the work: the oft-repeated word English, properly hyphenated Eng-lish, has been made to conform to the other words having -ng- at a syllable break by appearing as Eng-lish throughout.

  • They have no duty to a hyphenated consciousness.


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