Example sentences for: hyphens

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

  • Among the arguments for boarding the dot-wagon: dots take less space than hyphens, and the period key is easier to hit on the keyboard.

  • Good advice is given about hyphens and adverbs ending in -ly preceding adjectives: were I being pernickety, I should say that the word modifier is not necessarily applied only to words that precede a noun, and that the rules change when a modifier is in apositive or predicative position, as in a well-known man vs. a man well known for his generosity .

  • 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.


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