Sentence examples for uses for emphasis from inspiring English sources

The prime minister lights a cigar, which he uses for emphasis as he lists the factors giving Israel an edge in the development of what he calls a "knowledge economy".

Possessive suffixes (such as 'my') exist alongside free possessive pronouns (used for emphasis).

As Google puts it, "literally" can be used "to acknowledge that something is not literally true but is used for emphasis or to express strong feeling".

According to Google, literally now can mean "to acknowledge that something is not literally true but is used for emphasis or to express strong feeling".

The linguistic abuse of literally has got out of control – even the OED now includes an informal definition of literally as "used for emphasis while not being literally true".

And sitting in the theatre, I wondered whether Chimerica might also be the politics of literally, ie "something that is not literally true but used for emphasis or to express a strong feeling".

When he is explaining something, practically every motion is familiar, not just the arc of the index finger but the reflexive temple-scratch and the chopping movement of both hands that is used for emphasis.

"One thinks technically photography is simple, ne?" (He peppers his English sentences with the German sound "ne?", an untranslatable word used for emphasis, though he still pronounces "sort of" in the most London way imaginable).

Done with stencils, most of his pieces depict solo figures in black, white and grey, with deep reds and blues occasionally used for emphasis.

Another phenomenon is 'special spelling' used for emphasis, for example separating each letter of the word by spaces 'l i k e t h i s', which may also cause problems for automatic word counting routines.

Translates to "old guy," means the opposite, and is used for emphasis at the end of pretty much every single sentence.