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 they speak so fast, and talk about no punctuation — there’s not a period or a comma in the world to stop them once they start talking.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 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

However, just for the heck of it, he wiggled his bent Sidney's out of his coat pocket, thumbed to ostrich comma male-female, old-young, sick-well, mint-used, and inspected the prices.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick