Sentence examples for usage quotations from inspiring English sources

"That's what the usage quotations are for," Sheidlower explained.

Dictionary.com, the popular online dictionary that draws from a range of American dictionaries, offers a much more limited selection of usage quotations.

In addition to giving etymologies, not the strong point of Johnson and his contemporaries, and definitions, in which he excelled, Johnson illustrated usage with quotations drawn almost entirely from writing from the Elizabethan period to his own time, though few living authors were quoted (the novelists Samuel Richardson and Charlotte Lennox, Garrick, Reynolds, and Johnson himself among them).

It might be an inconsistent usage of quotation marks for strings, misleading variable names or anything along those lines.

v) We have removed the usage of quotation marks around the word represent, which concerned Reviewer #2.

Check for usage of quotation marks for emphasis or for quoted texts.

Use quotation marks.

We are informed that when a sentence ends with a quotation American usage always places the terminal punctuation inside the quotation marks, which is not so.

These quotations and usages were all compared and carefully studied in the Dictionary so that a reader could understand what words in literary works meant in context.

Below are two examples of quotation mark usage: "I can't wait to see him perform!" John exclaimed.

The Oxford English Dictionary OEDD) has since 1857 recruited mostly voluntary readers, who provide lexicographers with quotations that show words' usage.