Sentence examples for uses a colon from inspiring English sources

The name of a complex uses a colon, e.g., A B.

In military time, there is no colon and the word "hours" is placed, while 24-hour time uses a colon without using the word "hours".

Use a colon or dash after "well" to introduce the list.

2. When would you use a colon: when would you use a semi-colon? 3. What is the difference (in terms of sense) between the following: (a) "The butler stole the necklace" (b) "It was the butler who stole the necklace"?

If you want to be on the safe side, use a colon after the salutation, although some people now feel it is permissible to use a comma in an e-mail message.

When a reporter from the Times reached Goodwin, before the auction, to ask about the connection, she noted that whereas the initials on Rodenstock's bottles were written "Th.J.," in his correspondence Jefferson tended to use a colon — "Th J".

Allan M. Siegal, a longtime arbiter of New York Times style before retiring, opined, "The semicolon is correct, though I'd have used a colon, which I think would be a bit more sophisticated in that sentence".

But the examples don't always highlight very slight variations in format among the styles (for instance, whether to use a colon or parentheses to separate the issue number from the volume number in a quarterly journal).

We used a colon phantom containing various-sized spheres to determine the influence of CT acquisition parameters on lesion detectability and sizing.

"How do you know when to use a colon?" asked Travis, setting me up for a bathroom joke.

We also used a colon cancer cell line HCT116 with p53 negative or positive phenotype.