Sentence examples for closing quotation marks from inspiring English sources

However, this did not stop Han Han adding a piece of theatrically blank irony to his blog in response to the Nobel award – a pair of opening and closing quotation marks.

In American English, periods at the ends of sentences are placed inside closing quotation marks.

Add the line numbers, if provided, in parentheses right after the closing quotation marks.

When citing three or fewer lines within quotation marks, place the line numbers in parentheses after the closing quotation marks.

The 1748 edition of Clarissa separated speakers with "dashes or new lines", but sometimes placed an opening quotation mark "at the exact point at which a quotation began, with a new 'mark of silence', or closing quotation mark, accompanying it where the quotation ended".

The placement of punctuation marks before or after a closing quotation mark varies.

There should be a comma after the end of the dialogue and the closing quotation mark.

Periods and commas are placed before the closing quotation mark instead.

Place the parentheses after the closing quotation mark but before the period.

Take not also the period and comma are placed right after the closing quotation mark.

It is the usual American practice to put sentence-ending punctuation (a period, question mark, or exclamation point) inside the closing quotation mark.