Sentence examples for on the hyphen from inspiring English sources

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

The theatrical term "make-up" — Max always insisted on the hyphen — had been considered risqué, but at the urging of his son Frank he began applying it to his products, and it swept the world.

The vote left the opposition group, "Oregonians Against Job-Killing Taxes," (kudos on the hyphen) befuddled.

For Surface Body/Action Space, Parlá was inspired by Gustavo Pérez Firmat's book, Life on the Hyphen.

In Bellini-Liszt, there is ample shallowness on either side of the hyphen, but no one plays this as an exercise in deep thought.

Press coverage on the continent is placing equal weight on both sides of the hyphen.

For Anna, these boundaries are rifts through which the immigrant might plunge at any moment: "It's a bridge, but somehow I think there is a gap on either end of the hyphen," she tells her boyfriend, who is also Caribbean-American, at the end of "Anna In-Between".

And it was time — long past time — to focus on the far side of the hyphen.

I refused to acknowledge the dismissal of the hyphen.

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

I find it outrageous that the author, a fifth-generation American, will be "holding on more dearly to the hyphen" in his American identity.