punctuation mark

His dog, Jesus, a striking black-and-white pit bull, followed him everywhere, tail wagging like a punctuation mark.

And a bit of lemon zest—the punctuation mark that makes everything else sing.

How very dare you! — have in turn blazed across social media spaces populated by the kind of folks who will tell you, unprompted, that they have a favorite punctuation mark and what it is.

“This was the best game we’ve played so far from start to finish, but we have one more. Let’s put a punctuation mark on the season!”

The shoulder injury was a punctuation mark on a promising, but injury-riddled rookie year for Hart.