italic

Example Sentences

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As I was writing this story, I kept a quote in italics at the top of my Word doc.

From Seattle Times

But something even more powerful was at work as I read, something harder to make sense of, let alone characterize: At the time I thought of it — always in italics — as the sound.

From Los Angeles Times

The words in italics, for reasons lost to history, were omitted from the first compilation of federal laws in 1874, which was prepared by a government official called “the reviser of the federal statutes.”

From New York Times

“Masterpiece” then pans very slowly — with lots of emphatic italics, arch ellipses and a few footnotes — over the full arc of the fake movie’s development.

From New York Times

Words like “obsessed” and “adore” hovered over the room, heavy with italics.

From New York Times