comma

It was the most Iranian sentence I could imagine: despair and hope in the same breath, separated by a comma.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026

Marcelino’s condition improved but Diaz’s health declined exponentially to the point that he fell into a comma and was put on a list to receive a liver transplant, according to news reports.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2026

"It is my understanding that he liked to use the Oxford comma," she added.

From BBC ● May 9, 2024

On his website, he described himself as a “militant bicyclist” and “a proponent of the singular they, the Oxford comma, and pre-Elon Twitter.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2023

Thurber was once asked by a correspondent: “Why did you have a comma in the sentence, ‘After dinner, the men went into the living-room’?”

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author

No document has been more examined than the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding, down to the placement of commas, as if the terms meant anything to those jockeying over it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Alongside one picture of Lord Mandelson with two women, whose faces are obscured, he writes about meeting Epstein's interesting – in inverted commas – friends.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2025

Unlike periods and commas, em dashes aren’t integral to sentence structure; they’re a considered choice that can, but by no means have to, take the place of commas, parentheses and semicolons.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2025

The author has a curious relationship with commas; his sentences often run on to the point where you might find yourself looking for periods without finding them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2025

Without commas, the finger of guilt points to Frank.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner