Sentence examples for em dashes from inspiring English sources

Dashes should be en dashes rather than em dashes or hyphens data takes a singular verb (like agenda), though strictly a plural; you come across datum, the singular of data, about as often as you hear about an agendum datacentre, dataset dates Our style is: 21 July 2016 (day month year; no commas).

And em dashes can show a switch in grammatical structure, like — well, you know.

Use em dashes to punctuate a sentence.

Use em dashes to show when a sentence cuts off.

Use em dashes to substitute for missing information.

Below are a few examples of em dashes used to interrupt sentences: Deborah — who was nineteen — still loved the swings at the local park.

Open image in new window Fig. 3 a Efficiency comparison between LDSTM (solid lines) and EM (dashed lines) in recovering source temporal information.

dotted line: emd, dashed line: sure, solid line: semd.

The fake Restaurant Girl: "This week I dined em dashed at Chez Lucienne".

And the glory of that em dash.

Mad Dash Comma Queen Mary Norris clarifies the difference between the hyphen, the en dash, and the em dash.