hyphen

Example Sentences

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The lives of this family and millions of others are balanced on that flimsy hyphen.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2025

These attacks on the em dash — a ChatGPT hyphen?

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2025

Or perhaps the story of his panic at seeing a post-it note saying "please re-sign" on some documents, and not noticing the hyphen, wondered what he'd done to justify having to quit.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2023

But with the slash of a hyphen and the snip of a “20,” Mr. Evers changed 2024-25 to the year 2425.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2023

By and by, the hyphen fell out, giving us passerby and passersby.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner