hyphen

Example Sentences

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Or perhaps the story of his panic at seeing a post-it note saying "please re-sign" on some documents, and not noticing the hyphen, wondered what he'd done to justify having to quit.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2023

“When you put a hyphen between two things, it almost makes it sound like they're somehow equal,” Zahr said.

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2023

But with the slash of a hyphen and the snip of a “20,” Mr. Evers changed 2024-25 to the year 2425.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2023

No one had really paid too much attention to the hyphen.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2022

The first is missing the hyphen that bolts together the pieces of the compound word that was supposed to remind readers of the problem with piranhas, man-eating.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker