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

That title seems to have lost a comma since Cannes, but who cares?

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025

"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

Her mouth opened when she saw us, and her tongue curled out like a misplaced comma.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd