Sentence examples for punctuated from inspiring English sources
The word "punctuated" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe when something is broken up or divided with punctuation marks, such as a question or a list. For example, you could say: "The sentence was punctuated with semicolons and exclamation points."
The four hour drive is only punctuated by a roadhouse where hot milk has to substitute for coffee.
Of course, the tour is punctuated by stop-offs at two of Muia's favourite pizzerias for a doughy, cheesy, refuel.
It was to be a world of freeform team-working environments, punctuated only by pot plants and partitions.
Sharing the bill will be Sir Paul McCartney and our conversation is punctuated by the distant strains of the former Beatle rehearsing – the chords of Get Back reverberating around the corrugated metal walls.
My futile attempts were punctuated by the screams of the patient in the next bed and by the mischief of the lady opposite, who kept coming over to steal my equipment.
Her childhood was chaotic and punctuated by fights: "I was never taught boundaries or rules or life skills".
His manner is slightly awkward, vagueness punctuated by sudden bursts of lyricism; he has a reputation for being glum but is engagingly animated, if only periodically.
"I know you love me and I love you," said Jonathan, wearing his trademark fedora and carrying a gold-handled cane, in a speech punctuated by bass guitar and cymbals.
Accustomed to hours of enforced inactivity punctuated by bursts of intense effort: check.
Flimsy rows of concrete arches hang above swaths of blue mirror glass, punctuated by stick-on timber trellis screens.
Incidentally, the ISC's own report is an example of how hollow that commitment is, with its paragraphs regularly punctuated with triple asterisks indicating redactions and undermining some of its key points.
