Example sentences for: on--and

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

  • The girl is a naive, but her mixture of optimism and spooky prescience gives her perceptions weight, and Hiditch has a subterranean existence that's constantly at odds with his pleasantries: He might well be a psychopath who has preyed on--and dispatched--other young women.

  • I could easily go on--and on, and on--but I would probably be violating the permission to reproduce text from a copyrighted work for purposes of review.

  • Thus, when a dictionary is touted as the one used by such-and-such a newspaper, readers should think back to the number of times that paper has been cited in SIC ³--seldom for the kinds of things that dictionaries have much bearing on--and discount the claims for “adoption” as so much hype.

  • Sales of tobacco pipes are booming; the pipe industry hopes to capitalize on--and supplant--cigar chic, but the Wall Street Journal says skeptics still consider pipes "tweedy and prissy."

  • If you are absolutely not up to having dozens of chums this year, tell them that it's just playmates from now on--and be prepared to forgo some loot.


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