Use of hyphen in Sentences. 28 Examples

The examples include hyphen at the start of sentence, hyphen at the end of sentence and hyphen in the middle of sentence

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hyphen at the end of sentence


  1. The dash is longer than the hyphen.
  2. Those two words need to be connected a hyphen.
  3. The 2 parameters should be separated by a comma or a hyphen.
  4. The following expressions match all lowercase letters and the hyphen.
  5. To divide or connect ( syllables, word elements , or names ) a hyphen.
  6. To divide or connect ( syllables, word elements, or names ) with a hyphen.
  7. This is actually three bits of information , joined together by a double hyphen.
  8. Answer: a. Why: When creating an unusual adjective from other types of words, use a hyphen.
  9. As an implementor of an XML processor, we might define a special date datatype that conforms to the format of day-month-year, but uses various separators, not just a hyphen (-).

hyphen in the middle of sentence


  1. Is there a hyphen in post-mortem?
  2. There should be a hyphen in 'short-sighted'.
  3. A hyphen is an acceptable alternative to a comma.
  4. Use a hyphen inside a character set to specify a range.
  5. We weren't sure whether there was a hyphen in the word co - ordination.
  6. Shall we put a comma, a question mark, a semi - colon or a hyphen here?
  7. Stump line: The last line of a page ending with a hyphen . Consider undesirable.
  8. Li - an: Is that where you put a hyphen between your husband's surname and yours?
  9. Besides we were never very sure whether there was a hyphen in the word co-ordination.
  10. Used to take the place of hyphen in many occasions when finer typography is required.
  11. Until late 1995, she had gone by an Anglicized hyphen name and had been a lifelong Republican.
  12. Use the soft hyphen in words which would not be hyphenated if they fell in the middle of a line.
  13. Discretionary hyphen: hyphen inserted by keyboard and which overrides the hyphenation program in use.
  14. When you drew that Fish-And-Chips sign, you should have put a hyphen between Fish and And and And and Chips"."
  15. Note that continuation lines may be indicated by entering a hyphen sign after any of the closing square brackets.
  16. As you type, WordPerfect will automatically insert a soft hyphen where appropriate, without stopping for you to position the cursor.
  17. Councillors have suggested using Tees-side using a hyphen to emphasise the name of the river rather than the name of a local authority.
  18. En dash (En rule): A rule the length of which equals an en. Used to take the place of hyphen in many occasions when finer typography is. required.
  19. Because most tools take standard input as an argument using a hyphen (-), even the argument for using cat to intersperse multiple files with stdin is often not valid.

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abdicator -
عہدہ چہوڑنے والا,ذمہ داری چہوڑنے والا
One who formally relinquishes an office or responsibility.