Example sentences for: hyphens

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

  • I mentioned also the potential saving by Times writers by doing away with such hyphens as the one in teen-ager , which the Times insists on using.

  • 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.

  • The same holds for other dividers, such as colons, dashes, hyphens, and blanks.

  • 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:

  • 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.


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