Sentence examples for hyphen into from inspiring English sources

But so as not to distract you with the typos, should I have repunctuated it, adding commas and plunking a hyphen into "all-consuming"?

After they had been there a little over a year Wolcott-Jones put the hyphen into his name to assure being addressed properly.

Result: Perfect, even going as far as throwing a hyphen into "low-level" for me.

The name originates from an early spellchecking program's habit of automatically "correcting" the word "cooperation" (when spelt without a hyphen) into "Cupertino", the name of the California city in which Apple has its headquarters.

In Microsoft Word, doing this will automatically change the hyphen into an en dash.

Word-processing programs turn the two hyphens into an unbroken line that's roughly the width of a capital "M" — hence the official name of this punctuation mark, the em-dash.

The processor will automatically change the two hyphens into an em dash.

The normal rules of English apply to unit names, where a hyphen is incorporated into the adjectival sense, e.g. "a 25-kilogram sphere".

In the department of more serious consequences, a missing hyphen in one line of computer code likely sent the spaceship Mariner I, bound for Venus, splashing into the Atlantic Ocean.

Lazy writers locked into adverbial clichés write, correctly, happily married, finely tuned, fatally flawed, mortally wounded and easily duped -- all without the hyphen; in each case, the second half of the compound is a past participle.

Fig. 12 Phishing hyphen in the URL Fig. 13 Legitimate hyphen in the host name.