comma

In his “Phonetic Punctuation,” Borge read a story aloud and gave every comma and period its own sound effect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

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

“First you say ‘comma,’ like a comma in a sentence,” said Amara Ajagu.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2024

Then, it coils itself into a comma, bunching up its lower half.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

If you don’t want the emphasis, leave out the comma.

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

It has also been a career of resilience, though Beaumont jokingly refers to her dad's speech at her wedding in which he used that word in inverted commas to mean "stubborn" instead.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Also, he said, she added way too many commas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026

“We put commas, not periods on everything—it’s never over.”

From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2025

The lively canvas, hardly an illustration of an event, employs light-reflective silver and golden-brown metallic paints applied in vast fields of paisley-like commas that dematerialize into a spatially ambiguous surface shimmer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024

“It stinks of Sport,” said Mordred in inverted commas, “and the Done Thing and the Best People. Let’s go to the garden.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White