comma

Example Sentences

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How barmy is it to fly thousands of people half-way around the world to sit in giant air-conditioned tents to argue about commas, and interpretations of convoluted words?

From BBC

By the time we were done, we’d used everything in the book, including the commas and question marks.

From New York Times

The comma is suggestive: For the watched, the watcher is both of the world, and the world itself.

From New York Times

Paramedics were eventually able to take Luis to a hospital, where he was put in a medically induced comma.

From New York Times

That was a trick, right there — a bit of rhetorical tomfoolery to make you think the impassioned public testimony and the Oxford comma were connected.

From Seattle Times