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

But, comma, we also are doing that for the queer experience.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025

The State Opening of Parliament felt like a ceremonial comma.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2023

On his website, he described himself as a “militant bicyclist” and “a proponent of the singular they, the Oxford comma, and pre-Elon Twitter.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2023

Death is not a period that ends the great sentence of life, but a comma that punctuates it to more lofty significance.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry