Sentence examples for hyphen and from inspiring English sources

Then there was a hyphen, and then: 2011.

Add the hyphen and "Ya," and it means "house".

It automatically inserts the signal for the hyphen and orders the end of the line.

Hot-smoked salmon has an all-important hyphen and can often be served cold.

He created a word — coworking, eliminating the hyphen — and rented space in a building, starting a movement.

Joe's diaries end on 1 August 1967, suddenly, with a hyphen, and some believe pages were lost, or even removed.

And as for hyphens and dashes – let's not even go there.

A big one, Ms. Samen said, was about hyphens and dashes.

There's more advice in Why do we punctuate?, which looks at commas, brackets, inverted commas, the apostrophe, colons and semicolons, hyphens and dashes.

Swirls, dabs, hyphens and speeding vectors: the electrifying brushmarks seem to channel the flow of his sensations in a surging tide.

The chapters on the history of hyphens and quotation marks are as interesting as any chapters on the history of hyphens and quotation marks could possibly hope to be: the chapters on the interrobang and the @ symbol are entertaining as well as informative; and the chapter on the history of the anthropomorphic manicule, with its ever-insistent finger and fist, is a must-read.