Sentence examples for a hyphen to avoid from inspiring English sources

The trick in all this is to use a hyphen to avoid confusing the reader's eye.

For all its high-tech gadgets, sex and fast-paced action, "MI-5" (the series uses the hyphen to avoid being read as M-15) picks up the torch of John le Carré: the Soviet Union or international terrorism may be the enemy, but the most sinister foes lurk inside the C.I.A. and its lapdogs at the British Foreign Office.

Howzabout a hyphen to further international understanding?

And why, when no other group is followed by "Am.," is "African" so designated -- and without a hyphen to boot?

Grown-ups know that "Grown Ups" desperately needs a hyphen to make it a correctly punctuated compound noun.

Use a hyphen to split a word between two lines.

Use a hyphen to mark a reference that carries on across several pages, and end the reference with a period.

- When an adverb can also be an adjective (eg hard), the hyphen is required to avoid ambiguity – it's not a hard, pressed person, but a hard-pressed one; an ill-prepared report, rather than an ill, prepared one.

(That's the term enthusiasts use. The hyphen is necessary, to avoid unfortunate misunderstandings).

Try to avoid hyphens or other unnecessary symbols.

You can adjust your "AutoCorrect" settings to avoid converting three hyphens, underscores, equal signs, or asterisks plus a line break into this hard to remove line.