Example sentences for: punctuate

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

  • Yaar or Da (meaning `chum' or `buddy'), often punctuate Inglish speech.

  • The problem is that the words selected— summer afternoon (Henry James), powwow, pulchritude, punctuate (Shirley Lord), Preposterous (Charles Krauthammer), delegate (Maxwell M. Raab)--often appeal because of personal association and not for euphony (unlike classics like murmur and smooth ).

  • In Camagüey, the cattle-ranch province, rusty watermills punctuate the skyline and vaqueros (cowboys) slouch on horses with machetes and lassos at the ready.

  • The Japanese speaker, educated in Kanbun would punctuate this sentence with the aid of the symbol:

  • Such meetings, spontaneous and arranged, punctuate Horwitz's zigzag journey through the Old Confederacy, with stops at battlefields, museums, redneck bars, gatherings of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, an Afrocentric school, and the living rooms of countless affable Southerners.


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