Example sentences for: scare-quotes

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

  • Although feature production in Los Angeles County is down 13 percent this year, says the paper, "adult" (used by the LAT without the scare-quotes) movie production is up 25 percent.

  • Note the scare-quotes in the following: "The only veterans covered.

  • The New York Times lead states that the "consumer" health-care laws (the scare-quotes are supplied by the Times ) being discussed in state capitals tend to focus more on protecting "the incomes, jobs and turf of the health-care system's biggest and richest vested interests," namely, specialist physicians and managed-care plans.

  • Scare-quotes, as they are sometimes called, call into question the very words they assert.


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