comma

Example Sentences

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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

"I agree with much of what he said, but not absolutely every word and dot and comma of it," he added.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2025

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

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024

Wes doesn’t place a comma in by accident.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023

Kochu Maria was asleep on the drawing-room floor, curled into a comma in the flickering light of the television that was still on.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy