Sentence examples for hyphen from inspiring English sources

The existence of hyphen identities is hardly a sign of failure in itself, any more than is the existence of Hispanic-Americans.Guillaume Rocher Roquefort-les-Pins, FranceSIR – I have always thought it problematic to call the veil worn by women in the Muslim world "a religious symbol" ("Out from under", September 5th).

Mr Hollande likes to straddle both sides: as his Europe minister puts it, France is the hyphen in Europe's north-south division.Second, Mr Hollande wants to meet the targets set in the European fiscal-compact treaty, which the French parliament has just ratified.

The hyphen maintains separate identities while symbolising co-operation across the Rhine.

But the Dayton negotiators could not secure agreement on Brcko (pronounced Burrtshko), a town in northern Bosnia that forms a sort of hyphen between the eastern and western sections of the Serb entity (see map).

The article al (also written as el) may be attached to surnames directly, separated from surnames with a hyphen or a space, or omitted altogether.

The hyphen comes more readily to non-observant Muslims like Mr Ozdemir than to young Turks who are captivated by Islam.

Where, for instance, would extra-marital sex be without its hyphen?

A hyphen has reappeared over India's western border, just as the scale of the economic setback hitting India is becoming apparent.

As its first criterion for classifying syllables, the Qieyun takes the tones, of which it has four: ping, shang (here transcribed with a colon, as in pa:), qu (here transcribed with a hyphen, as in pa-), and ru, or even, rising, falling, and entering ("checked") tones.

Jay Z (having dropped the hyphen from his name) returned in 2013 with Magna Carta Holy Grail, which, in an exclusive deal with Samsung, was made available for free to users of the company's smartphones several days ahead of its official release.

Harrison Gray Otis became a partial owner of the paper in 1882 and incorporated it within a public corporation, the Times-Mirror Company (the hyphen was later dropped from the name), in 1884.