Sentence examples for quotation like from inspiring English sources

When you begin a book with a quotation like that, you're inviting trouble to come in, kick off its shoes and stay awhile.

Use intro tags to introduce a quotation, like this: Walt Whitman, a famous poet, wrote "I sing the body electric".

Use intro tags to introduce a quotation, like this: Any time you use someone else's words, you need to put those words in quotation marks and give the writer or speaker of those words credit.

We hoard quotations like amulets.

British English generally places the periods (full stops) and commas after the quotation marks, "like so".

American English always places periods (full stops) and commas inside the quotation marks, "like so".

Semicolons and colons always go outside the quotation marks, "like so"; Question marks and exclamation marks vary depending upon the context: If the whole sentence is a question and the quotation is a word or phrase at the end of the sentence, the question mark goes outside the quotation marks.

Quotations like that merge with fashion statements and become issues.

But quotations like Sprewell's make Van Gundy wonder whether his players believe it.

I used "The Book of Unusual Quotations" like an oracle, or a prayer book.

(Famous quotations, like small children, are irresistible to bring up in conversation and nearly impossible to pin down).