Sentence examples for slash marks from inspiring English sources

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slash marks

noun

Plural of slash mark

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There were slash marks on her torso.

The hospital in Nakuru, a town in the Rift Valley, is full of Kikuyu men with deep ax wounds, fingers cut off and slash marks across their faces.

"We observed the typical flags and slash marks that surveyors make, and realized that it wouldn't be long before developers would pick apart the woods," he recalled.

Mr. Kilham and his wife, Debra, are the most accommodating of hosts -- even if the guests claw at the furniture and leave slash marks on the faded armchair.

Learn the basics of rhythm and melody.Learn how to count bars.Practice by listening to your favorite records and counting the bars.Make slash marks for the bars--put longer slashes between the phrases and make notes about what is going on in the song (basic beat, drum fills, bass line comes in/out, melody comes in/out, beat drops out of song).

An example would be Steven Spielberg's birthday: December 18, 1946.Write out that date using numbers and slash marks (12/18/46) and then get rid of the slashes, leaving you with a six-digit number that you will use to encipher your message: 121846.

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The "slash" mark is an example of what happens when written punctuation becomes verbal slang.

Convention attendees reported that one of the signs confiscated from delegates entering the convention read "no Oligarchs" - "Oligarchs" with a superimposed red circle & slash mark - because, one certainly wouldn't want to embarrass the oligarchs.

Genotypes of analyzed family members are indicated (Squares denote males, circles-females, black symbols- affected individuals, symbols with central dot-unaffected mutation carriers, slash marks-deceased individuals).

One prisoner had recorded each month of his captivity with a slash mark.

What the writer originally wrote was that the slash mark used by Churchill has entered the playwriting lexicon.

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