Example sentences for: quotation

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

  • By 1952 the Baltimore Sun could use it without the quotation marks, and so it has become an ineradicable part of viewing terminology, admitted into Webster's Third New International Dictionary in 1963.

  • Aside from the unfortunate quotation, which hardly seems nautical at all, hogwash is ordinary English, which, it may be assumed, (English-speaking) sailors used as a medium in which to couch their nauticalisms.

  • And then he mused that he wouldn't call Stephen King a great writer in the same sense but would call him a great storyteller in the Dickens tradition (I am not using quotation marks because I cannot claim to remember verbatim).

  • Product has since come to encompass all aspects of the entertainment world, and the cynicism it once embodied is today only occasionally highlighted by means of its presentation in quotation marks.

  • To add insult to injury, when A. finally spoke to a "live" person (you will soon see why the word "live" is in quotation marks), he asked to have the $5.


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