Example sentences for: it--and

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

  • "This week, he has an exceptional opportunity to prove it--and to bequeath a lasting legacy."

  • It can change--you can change it--and it can stay changed, a lasting if not indelible record that you were there.

  • It turns out that the ice is still being distributed, and the Journal wonders how any savings have been accomplished since the delivery work is now done, not by the maintenance personnel who used to do it--and who still watch over the ice and log its movements--but by higher-paid congressional staffers.

  • Protectionism, by contrast, tends to impose widely spread costs but to confer benefits on concentrated interest groups, who therefore have a strong incentive to lobby for it--and to provide financial support for those who help make it seem intellectually respectable.

  • At their last meeting, as Chambers was preparing to flee the party, he begged Hiss to join him, but the supercool Hiss seemed to admire just what horrified Chambers in Soviet behavior--Stalin "played for keeps," as he put it--and his wife, Priscilla, termed Chambers' agonized apostasy "mental masturbation."


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