quotation

Example Sentences

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“They had a fine office and the largest and completest quotation board I have ever seen anywhere,” Edwin Lefèvre writes of one bucket shop in his 1923 classic, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator External link.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

At least one copy included peculiar quotation marks in the opening paragraphs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Eagle-eyed viewers noticed that, in the film’s poster and its trailers, the title was bookended by quotation marks.

From Salon • Feb. 14, 2026

Technically, this is not “Wuthering Heights,” but “Wuthering Heights” in the self-referential quotation marks on the poster, an acknowledgment that Fennell has plunged her fingers into the plot and manipulated it to her whims.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

"Hi, Angela. Hey, I found that quotation, or rather, the librarian found it. You know: May God thy gold refine."

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin