Sentence examples for hyphens from inspiring English sources

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hyphens

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Plural of hyphen

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In these cases the last letters will be abandoned, speaces eliminated in compound names, and hyphens removed from hyphenated names".

Maybe it will be otherwise, and the babies currently being identified by the Census as hyphenated Americans will drop the hyphens as they grow up, apply to schools, enter the workforce and so on.

He's a multi-hyphenate, and I don't want him to overextend his hyphens.

Stereotypes and resentments, slurs and discussions about whether or not it's ok to call someone "akata", hyphens, distinctions, national boundaries and ethnic demarcations are not important.

Dashes should be N-dashes rather than M-dashes or hyphens data takes a singular verb (like agenda), though strictly a plural; no one ever uses "agendum" or "datum" datacentre, dataset dates Our style is: 21 July 2014 (day month year; no commas).

And though he later became enthusiastic about direct democracy (an enthusiasm, like that for homeopathic pills, which was fostered by his links with Switzerland through Barbara, his wife), he was a monarchist to the end.Suspicious of intellectuals, Brian relished exposing the soft, less-than-rigorously-thought-out (he was fond of hyphens) orthodoxies of the liberal left.

Like many others trying to unseat a Republican, Mr Franken is fond of hyphens, blaming various "Bush-Coleman" policies for America's predicament.

These internationalized domain names (IDNs) initially included Chinese, Arabic, and Cyrillic characters in addition to the long-serving Latin letters A to Z, Arabic numerals 0 to 9, and punctuation symbols such as hyphens.

Five years ago, the French state decided that all new double-barrelled surnames must be spelt with two hyphens: Dupont--Dupond rather than Dupont-Dupond, for example.

These included removing the circumflex accent on the letters "i" and "u" except in certain exceptional cases and verb endings, but also changing "ph" to "f" as well as taking away hyphens in such words as "week-end".

The new "lifetime" double-barrelled names would be branded with two hyphens.

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