italic

Example Sentences

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“Kathy,” painted in thin white italic letters, runs across the bottom.

From Los Angeles Times

It seems necessary to acknowledge here, with italics for emphasis, that California has enormous problems.

From Los Angeles Times

“I can’t say this loudly enough,” he writes, making liberal use of italics: “There is no evidence for significant average differences in intelligence-related genes between ‘races.’

From New York Times

It’s just... so condescending, the same way that if I spell something wrong in Google, I don’t need to see a sentence in all italics at the top of the page asking, “Did you mean?”

From The Verge

In this latest work, the author reaps the fruits of her earlier literary efforts, with Spanish words and phrases unfurling freely across the page without the awkward signaling of italics or quotation.

From New York Times