Sentence examples for in a punctuation from inspiring English sources

Chafe (1988) suggests that, for the same written text, speakers are limited to about 5.7 words per intonation contour as opposed to the 8.9 words in a punctuation unit – an increase of about 50%%.

Thirty-one of them materialised on London's South Bank in 2007 – a punctuation mark in the flow of commuters over Waterloo Bridge, here, an alarming, suicidal sight on the rooftop of the Shell Building, there.

That's a trick question, incidentally: When you are a reasonably fit but distinctly nontriathlete type, the cursing never exactly stops — it hovers in a punctuation-strewn thought bubble above your head each time you ascend the penitentiary-gray enameled fire stairs.

"Sweetheart!" Sara said, extending one hand in the air like a punctuation mark.

He claims that for an experience 'prior to being worked over', it is an encounter with "a punctuation in the field of red things, which includes the tiles of rooftops; the flags of gatekeepers and of the revolution; of certain terrains near Aix or Madagascar.

It is also a punctuation in the field of red garments, which includes, along with the dresses of women, the robes of professors, bishops and advocates general...and its red is literally not the same if it appears in one constellation or in another … .

It's a punctuation in the flow of thoughts.

Cut a pie topping in the shape of a punctuation mark.

Sure, the Finnish soprano Karita Mattila stripped down to the buff in the Dance of the Seven Veils in last season's memorable "Salome" at the Metropolitan Opera, but that was only a punctuation mark in a performance notable for its connectedness of singing and acting: one of the rare interpretations able to make the figure of this warped teenage princess come to life.

"There was a punctuation point in my life".

Individual life becomes a punctuation point in the DNA's blind, automaton desire for eternity.