ellipsis
Example Sentences
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Though the title jams everybody together in one breathless, unpunctuated rush, this is very much a movie about distance within families; an ellipsis between each word might have been apt.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025
He inserted this ellipsis, so the sentence meant the literal opposite of what it had actually said.
From Salon • May 16, 2025
His comedic rhythm feels like a throwback, with a lot of zingers and jokes that rely on audience laughter as a sort of ellipsis between punchlines.
From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2023
This ellipsis is a casual piece of grammar.
From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2022
Here we have an adverb, unproblematically, modifying the verb continue, an ellipsis for continue to be.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
