Sentence examples for hyphen usage from inspiring English sources

And if Mr. Stevenson is right about the general confusion over hyphen usage, a lot of us were putting on our spats improperly.

Not even die-hard grammar snobs who live to nitpick others' writing are finding much fodder in your hyphen usage.

Here's an example of good hyphen usage: Cara is his ex-girlfriend.

Unlike typical hyphen and dash usage, some grammatical resources allow you to separate em dashes from the rest of the sentence with spaces when used this way.

A hat-trick hyphenated usage (and when a noun phrase like hat trick is used as a compound adjective, it takes a hyphen) was exhibited in The Times on Christmas Eve in 2006; the newspaper wondered if Senator Barack Obama had become "the post-partisan, post-racial, post-baby boom embodiment of a new brand of politics".

Once, when I was collating a Gould proof, I had the unsettling thought "What if Eleanor ever loses it?" What if all these commas and hyphens and subtleties of usage prove to be the products of a benign delusion?

After similar usage by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, who often referred to the hyphen connecting a person to more than one religious commitment.

In keeping with contemporary usage, the first issue of The New-York Daily Times, on Sept. 18, 1851, used the hyphen.

Use hyphens with adjectives.

That is, if he can use hyphens.

Use hyphens for fractions.