Sentence examples for long dash from inspiring English sources

3. "I can't stand working with --." Although justitied, it's best not to share this with your boss especially if his/her name fits in the long dash longing to complete the sentence.

This long dash is, at first, disconcerting and will certainly be a giant dust collector.

(You read his novels and search in vain for a colon or semi-colon or long dash).

(b) Equatorial and (c) meridional intensities for (red, long dash) 1, (blue, short dash) 2 and (black, solid) the two-component system.

All chain lines should start and finish with a long dash, and when center points are defined, the chain lines should cross each another at solid portions of the line.

(At another moment, she repeats the idea that the long dash on the last page of "Gatsby" is a deliberate attempt to evoke Gatsby's dock, thereby marking "one of the first graphic novel moments in American literature").

The W+06 model consists of three processes: the primary photoelectron emission (short dashed line), the secondary electron emission (long dashed line), and the Auger electron emission (dot-dashed line).

Shown as a dashed line with long dashes.

"We say, 'We're witnessing history right here.'" But Hester's impact stretches beyond his long dashes down the field and his fast climb up the record lists.

The add_hline routine is used to add a horizontal line - in this case drawn with long dashes - that always extends across the whole plot, no matter what range is selected for the X axis.

In Baudot's code, each letter was represented by a five-unit combination of current-on or current-off signals of equal duration; this represented a substantial economy over the Morse system of short dots and long dashes.