Sentence examples for punctuation it from inspiring English sources

And even as its textures thicken (and drums, absent at first, add heavy punctuation), it retains an essentially dreamlike character.

Like excessive punctuation, it steers Mr. O'Connor off his course.

But once you know that religious Jews of a certain vintage are apt to thank God more or less as a matter of punctuation, it is not so clear any sort of humor was intended.

If I had invented the interrogative ellipsis, I think I'd have gone with "Punctuation???" Or maybe "Punctuation;" it would have the effect of suggesting that you supply your own subtitle.

Where you most expect punctuation, it may not show up at all: "You have to give initial capitals to the words Biro and Hoover otherwise you automatically get tedious letters from solicitors".

After almost a two-decade-long drought in punctuation, it would seem that the semicolon has returned: syntactical complexity began to appear again in Brooklyn in New York City at the start of this millennium.

The hyper-punctuation, it seems, is a grammatical defense against insanity.

Even if it enlightens us about the parts of speech and how to use them, it teaches us nothing about punctuation, and it can't help with spelling.

What I find fascinating about today's language is that it doesn't just include words and punctuation symbols: it also includes small images, or emojis.

From advertising (shockingly, sometimes intentionally) to the greengrocer's board we are bombarded with mis- (and missing) punctuation, yet it is invariably correct in print, though seldom when it emerges from the home printer.

I knew that if you took "The Star-Spangled Banner" very slowly and mournfully it altered not just the attitude of the song but the actual punctuation, turning it into a protest and a question.