Example sentences for: hyphenation

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

  • I have been entertained by the discussions of computerized hyphenation [ XVI, 4; XVII, 3].

  • The review of the new Random House Webster Dictionary [ XVIII, 1] gave space to the matter of inconsistent hyphenation, which I appreciated, and I also agreed with the reviewer's comments regarding the admittance of so-called naughty bits into the dictionary.

  • No comment is made about differences in hyphenation that result from differences or variants in pronunciation.

  • [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).

  • No hyphenation algorithm has been invented to control rivers of white space, nor to distinguish between pro-ject (verb) and proj-ect (noun, unless one is Canadian).


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