Words similar to hyphens

Example sentences for: hyphens

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

For visual clarity in this paper we have dropped hyphens and substrain designations from RI strain names.
I devised what I thought was a useful system for showing syllabification of boldface words in the Collins English Dictionary: places where hyphens could occur were marked by a tiny plus sign (except for spelling hyphens, which always permitted end-of-line hyphens); places that marked syllable breaks but where hyphenation was avoided, were marked by a centered dot:
The same holds for other dividers, such as colons, dashes, hyphens, and blanks.
The WSJ 's A-head column claims that dots are replacing hyphens as the new grammatical vogue.
The hyphens that separate -athon from the base morpheme is most new usages surely are self-conscious attempts to call attention to the wit invested in the coinage, like parsley atop a casserole of leftovers.