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
They don’t walk like ordinary dogs, but leap and somersault like an apostrophe and comma.
From "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
