comma
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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
In a letter to critic George Jean Nathan, he described the conclusion as “merely the comma at the end of a gaudy introductory clause, with the body of the sentence still unwritten.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025
Then, it coils itself into a comma, bunching up its lower half.
From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024
The State Opening of Parliament felt like a ceremonial comma.
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2023
If a comma is a yield sign and a period is a stop sign, the semicolon is a flashing red—one of those lights you drive through after a brief pause.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Vocabulary lists containing comma
Punctuation Matters
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Language and Grammar - Introductory
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