comma

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

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

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

Also, he said, she added way too many commas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026

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 ● Nov. 22, 2025

Unlike periods and commas, em dashes aren’t integral to sentence structure; they’re a considered choice that can, but by no means have to, take the place of commas, parentheses and semicolons.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2025

The lively canvas, hardly an illustration of an event, employs light-reflective silver and golden-brown metallic paints applied in vast fields of paisley-like commas that dematerialize into a spatially ambiguous surface shimmer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024

“It stinks of Sport,” said Mordred in inverted commas, “and the Done Thing and the Best People. Let’s go to the garden.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White