Sentence examples for a dash at the from inspiring English sources

The stripey shirt with the stiff white collar has never lost its popularity among lawyers, or small-town estate agents wishing to cut a dash at the Junior Chamber of Commerce.

That payoff is a really good hint, by the way: if you're looking for MORE, they're bent under 10 theme entries, like MOUNT RUSHMORE at 6 Down and clued by the clever "It's known for its big busts" as well as the HMORE at 60 Across (if you are solving electronically, you will see a dash at the entries that form the MORE).

There was my appearance in Julie Burchill's autobiography, cutting a dash at the Groucho Club in the early 90s: "You just knew that Tom was brilliant in bed because the minute the talk turned – as it invariably did – to matters of sport, Tom would yawn, down his vodkatini in one and say loudly, 'God!

Add a dash at the end of the line, as shown.

To show this interruption, you can use a dash at the end of the interrupted sentence, provide the sentence that is interrupting the original speaker, and consider using a dash at the beginning of the sentence if it is picked up again.

Cook, covered, gently for 5 minutes. 2 Melt the remaining butter in a pan, stir in the flour and cook for just under a minute, then add the milk a dash at a time.

"Like Peter Schmeichel in a desperate dash at the death, or something?" "What's the highest position a club in the English top flight has occupied at Christmas, before then getting relegated at the end of the season?" - Drummond Berman.

Other contenders include Alan Campbell in the single, the women's eight, and Alan Sinclair and Stewart Innes as the men's paircorrect – who have made a late dash at the pair.

With a mad dash at the end, he captured his heat of the 1,500 meters in 3 45.77 and advanced to Saturday's final.

But never has there been so much attention lavished on a dash as at the trial of Martha Stewart Martha Stewart and Peter Bacanovic Peter Bacanovic –and that's assuming the dash on Bacanovic's worksheet is a dash, and not just some stray mark on the page.

Data are plotted as boxes (interquartile range that contains the 50% of values) with a straight line at the median, a dashed line at the mean, and error bars defining the 5th and the 95th percentiles.