Example sentences for: punctuated

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

  • Indeed, the scholarly journals have been overflowing with turgid prose for decades, and it is particularly refreshing to know that comment on virtually any aspect of language can still be offered in language that, glowing with respectability, cleaving to the well-turned phrase, punctuated by the provocative pun, can be so engagingly presented.

  • punctuated by the clank of spoon against cereal bowl.

  • The columns of her successor at the Times , Maureen Dowd, consist of Heathers -like pronunciamentos upon the coolness of this politician and the uncoolness of that one, each punctuated by a saucy flounce.

  • The defense, conducted by White House counsel Charles Ruff, even though basically foot-stomping, and punctuated by a too-exquisitely timed choke-up evocation by Ruff of his late father on Omaha Beach, gets good reviews.

  • Meanwhile, Alan Greenspan , the nonflamboyant, noniconic Federal Reserve chairman, punctuated his wedding to NBC's Andrea Mitchell with a pair of kisses that the Washington Post depicted as shockingly passionate.


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