Sentence examples for my hyphen from inspiring English sources

Complete strangers ask intimate and personal family questions because apparently I must explain the origins of my hyphen.

(Bucking this trend is the New Yorker, which seems to go out of its way to use commas every place possible). Even if I were to find my own hyphen comfort zone, the fickle tides of change wouldn't let me stay comfortable for long.

And that fast, I'm slipping from my monkey-induced hyphen high into my default state of hyphen frustration.

Without the hyphen my bank wouldn't authorise the payment.

Or Death Knell," about the Oxford English Dictionary's removal of hyphens from many words because people are "not really sure what they're for": I added a hyphen to my first name at the suggestion of my high school guidance counselor when I started applying to colleges.

I, for one, will be holding on more dearly to the hyphen in my American identity.

I have never in my life omitted the hyphen, I didn't realize I was supposed to.

My last name has a hyphen and it was impossible to enter my name correctly on the online form.

I could jettison the diaeresis, impose my own logic on the hyphen, and defy Webster's by, say, making two words out of "hardworking".

Removing the hyphen that connected my last name with his but choosing to keep that name as a part of my business moniker is the definition of empowerment.

Finally, my postpartisan compromise: the losing of a hyphen after bi, post, and non are matters of style, not grammar.