Example sentences for: punctuation

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

  • Clearly, the first seems to call for “a model,” for the name, surrounded by punctuation becomes less significant; also, in that sequence the reader is not boxed into the corner of obligation where he must stand, face to the wall, if unaware of who this “in” personage might be.

  • McCarthy, who seems to be contemptuous of punctuation in any language, rarely writes accents where they are not needed but often omits them where they are, e.g., mia [pp. 90, 117]; borrachon [p. 227]; mascara [p. 229]; perdida [p. 283]; asi [p. 284]; haran [pt. 290]; and que [p. 318].

  • What I am getting at are titles with skew spellings, rogue punctuation, and “weird and wonderful” names and words that are difficult to relate to anything meaningful.

  • Malkovitch is the American Method priss, feyly dragging out his words and democratically abolishing all punctuation.

  • Plus, you toss in a little punctuation, and some consecutive entries read like excerpts from Starr's Ouija board, or last year's Times :


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