The phrase "a dash or a" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used when presenting options or alternatives, particularly in a context where you are discussing punctuation or choices.
Example: "When writing, you can choose to use a dash or a comma to separate clauses."
Alternatives: "a dash or a hyphen" or "a dash or an underscore".
Instead of a nose being drawn, its presence is semaphored by a dash or a squiggle.
It can add a dash or a clash of color or be useful during the winter when worn as a bandeau or hood to protect ears from the cold or as a snug neck warmer.
Regardless which patty you choose, if you can handle the heat, I recommend anointing it with a dash or a splash, or even more, of the bottled Jamaican hot sauce on hand (also available for sale at $2 a bottle).
A dash or a period after the number appears to be more of an aesthetic choice than a psychological tool, according to one of the authors of the menu pricing study, Sybil S. Yang, a doctoral student at Cornell.
DVD-R and DVD-RW (with a dash or a minus sign) compete with DVD+R and DVD+RW (with a plus sign) in record-once and rerecordable media.
Sure if you're a Gruber or a Dash or a Scoble you can maybe squeak by with a few posts per week, but that's a lot different from one big post every five days.
Consider the different degrees of authorial sniggering conveyed if, between "chemist" and "whom", you interpolate a comma, a semicolon, a dash or an exclamation mark … Ben Jonson, on the other hand, went bananas about printers mispunctuating his work, and denounced one in a poem as a "lewd printer" and an "absolute knave".
It's near impossible, as you emerge from "Enemy," to convince yourself that doubling might have a dashing or a funny side — remember "The Prisoner of Zenda" or Ivan Reitman's "Dave," in which Kevin Kline, as a mean American President, inspects his humble look-alike (the Dave of the title), and says, "You're a very handsome man.
Make a sauce of half-cup peanut butter, a tablespoon (or more) soy sauce, a dash (or more) sriracha chili sauce, a handful of basil or mint and enough warm water to thin.
Sense is never harmed by a fanatical disdain for linguistic anachronism, and the odd piece of period punctuation practice (a colon followed by a dash), or the restrained use of the Capitalization of Nouns (only in letters sent by one character to another), sketch verbal atmosphere without undue alienation.
On cross-examination, Richard Strassberg elucidated an admission from the expert that he never fully examined a dash (or perhaps just a stray mark) on the document that may or may not have come from the same pen as the "@60".
