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

I’m a comma, and I get to exist.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2024

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

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024

They lowered the virgule and curved it, for a start, so that it began to look like the modern comma.

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