How To Use Hyphenate In A Sentence

  • When everything is color coded or hyphenated how can we ever get past it?
  • However, the hyphenated identity of African-American came into widespread use during the 1980s, and it encapsulates graphically, on the page and in the mind, the “twoness” that Du Bois describes. W. E. B. Du Bois, Carol Swain, and African-American Duality
  • A new book from the crafter of the hyphenated superbole: "He sleep-otters under small black stones..." and later "illness's knapped letter is ribboned" in the "water-earth, the gonging. Archive 2008-03-01
  • A number and its unit of measurement are hyphenated if they modify another noun.
  • Enlightened Sky Atlantic is that most anxiety-inducing of hyphenates, the comedy-drama. Cable girl: Enlightened
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  • As the author concludes, ‘Brazil remains a country where hyphenated ethnicity is predominant yet unacknowledged.’
  • On my credit card, I have the hyphenated version and on my passport, the two names because here in France, even if you take you husband’s name, you birthname is still mentionned on official papers. What’s In A Name? | Her Bad Mother
  • The term penny-wise is hyphenated because it is a compound modifier in which wise means smart, rather than a use of the suffix -wise. Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
  • However, the hyphenates are a separate and special branch of the species. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 4
  • If she hyphenates her last name or that of their kids .. it's going to one awesome spelling bee for all the customer service people Orszag engaged to ABC News reporter
  • The dancing fairy is Ariel, who nowadays would have a hyphenated last name & fit in here perfectly.
  • Hyphenation by decomposition of compound words wordaxeis a Python library (formerly known as deco-cow) which provides Python programs with the ability to automatically hyphenate words using an algorithm which is based on decomposition of compound words into base words, and is named DCWHyphenator in the code. Softpedia - Windows - All
  • Said hyphenate's name is Josh, and his film, Winter Solstice, is about the millionth variation on a tried-and-true template.
  • The crusade against 'hyphenates' will only inflame the partial patriotism of trans-nationals, and cause them to assert their European traditions in strident and unwholesome ways. Trans-national America
  • She's the daughter of a rich white businessman with a hyphenated surname.
  • Anyone who likes light-hearted, heavy hitting, unhyphenated rock and roll would do well to add People Get Ready to their collection.
  • We unhyphenated libertarians look forward to the discussion.
  • Sometimes, but not always, Heidegger hyphenates the word, ‘Da-sein’, to stress the sense of ‘being here’.
  • I have purposefully hyphenated the word subhuman in this article to add emphasis to the root of the word which is human because that root word is very important! Political Pistachio
  • In addition to my overuse of hyphenated phrases, this reminds me of the Empire State Building's own mini-me, aka the RJ Reynolds headquarters in Winston-Salem, NC.
  • List of copy-text hyphens that happen to occur at line endings in this edition; each of these is hyphenated in this edition and in the copy-text Autobiographies 1955. Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies
  • Some of the final plot turns strain credulity, and Flynn has a thing for coining hyphenated words. VinceKeenan.com
  • Most of those who are listed with us as producers are "hyphenates" such as producer-writers, or others who do some "hands-on" work in addition to their producer duties. Disney Rejection Letter Revisited
  • So, for commonly hyphenated or compound words, it is sometimes worth running the search a few ways.
  • Here the two words were hyphenated, signifying a wordplay on the name of Ishmael, Abraham's first son and Isaac's half-brother.
  • To avoid hurting her husband's feelings I advised her to hyphenate both names, continental style --- as long her maiden name wasn't `Bigg '. RESCUING ROSE
  • Like my humorists, I prefer my heart docs to be hyphenates. Stephen J. Gertz: S.J. Perelman, Humorist, Cardiology a Specialty
  • In other words, would we be willing to give up some of our cherished "hyphens," if that was the price of doing away with hyphenated-Canadianism in other parts of the country? The New Canada
  • I mean, isn't that what oddly hyphenated phrases are all about?
  • We get a couple of noun phrases with hyphenated compound prenominal attributive modifiers like outcome-related, real-world, and whole-of-organisation, and that's just about it.
  • Some words are ambiguously hyphenated in the original, for example compare "birdlike" (page 40) with "bird-like" (page 383). The Guests Of Hercules
  • hyphenate these words and names
  • The crusade against 'hyphenates' will only inflame the partial patriotism of trans-nationals, and cause them to assert their European traditions in strident and unwholesome ways. Trans-national America
  • But Dan Perry of the AP was there and interviewed the hyphenates, Domscheit-Berg and Garton-Ash, on the record. Jeff Jarvis: The Disruptors Arrive at Davos
  • One would not expect a letter in the press pointing out the lawsuits about Obama's birthplace to invite retorts by the hyphenated hyperbolist constitutional scholar and his distaff cheerleader. Undefined
  • The big man parleyed the advent of a new hyphenated Tory into a week off.
  • [Updated 4/24/08: I've posted some counter-arguments to claims that e-mail must be hyphenated, in case you happen upon somebody who can't be dissuaded from the position that this does matter.] Stupid grammar rules I: Email vs. e-mail « Motivated Grammar
  • What I hear is that people want to create a sense of union, and having that hyphenated name complicates things," she said. Www.startribune.com
  • The epitome of the multihyphenate, she is a polo player, an interior designer, a fashion designer and a brand brainstormer. Meredith Barnett: Sara Rotman, Accessories Entrepreneur and Branding Genius, Shares Her New Year's Resolutions
  • And, if I understand correctly, prenominal phrasal adjectives are hyphenated–making them one word. How important is college? - 22 Words
  • What's the consensus on hyphenated words for 25 words or less?
  • I agree about the minotaurs and think under-meated should be hyphenated like Rodham-Clinton should be hypenated. Random Typing
  • They do not have money to waste on multiple-hyphenated coffee drinks - double-top, no-foam, non-fat lattes and the like. Times, Sunday Times
  • This Ms. Davis doesn't think hyphenated could be a pot hunter. A THIEF OF TIME
  • To avoid hurting her husband's feelings I advised her to hyphenate both names, continental style --- as long her maiden name wasn't `Bigg '. RESCUING ROSE
  • To avoid hurting her husband's feelings I advised her to hyphenate both names, continental style --- as long her maiden name wasn't `Bigg '. RESCUING ROSE
  • He is a bonafide player - a multiple hyphenate who has done virtually everything that can be done in front of or behind a camera.
  • I have to say that objecting to "Hyphenated Americanism" is not necessarily racist, but I also have to say that it is an easy veil to throw over xenophobia or mysoxeny. Archive 2007-03-01
  • hyphenates" and more "commas", adhering to and adopting identities with increasing ease. Www.MountainRunner.us
  • That is, hyphenate when words in a phrase modify another work, not when they don’t. The Volokh Conspiracy » Use of Hyphens:
  • I was about to take my colleague to task for failing to hyphenate ‘best known’ when using it as a compound adjective.
  • Only one-word unhyphenated whole numbers are permitted, and no number may be repeated.
  • Her name is hyphenated and her britches are big so she's announced her candidacy for mayor of St. Mary's Point, Minnesota.
  • In my experience, all women with hyphenated names are cows by default, but Emma-Kate was just terrible.
  • Until last week when his divorce was completed, Klingler's last name hyphenated to include Desai's.
  • `Any special instructions regarding the woman with the hyphenated name? MURDER IN E MINOR
  • I do not want to hyphenate my name, because it would be too long.
  • We did a computer search for all the hyphenated words.
  • I think I will have a hyphenated name, she thought, when I get married. ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
  • As a rule, romance is best left unhyphenated by other emotions or feelings. Times, Sunday Times
  • We may thrill with dread at the aggressive hyphenate, but this tame flabbiness is accepted as Americanization. Trans-national America
  • She travels to Chennai as regularly as Spivak to Kolkata and, like many of these global scholars, inhabits something inclusive and unhyphenated that could be called EastWest.
  • A well chosen hyphenated domain name can be just as effective as a single word domain name.
  • The templates had been designed to accommodate long, hyphenated last names as well as multiple professional accreditation initials.
  • Therefore, neat and concise hyphenated compound terms will be used throughout to help disentangle his various roles and avoid needless repetition and reader boredom.
  • Hyphenated words, symbols, numbers, and abbreviations were counted as one word.
  • But the Department of Justice was so thoroughly convinced of the far-reaching character of German plots that President Wilson, in his annual message of December, 1915, frankly denounced the "hyphenates" who lent their aid to such intrigues. Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times.
  • Thither he returned in the spring of 1876, and the Evening Journal, being by this time consolidated with the Times, he became an editorial writer and paragrapher on the hyphenated publication. Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions
  • Now I might become what the Americans call a hyphenate - a writer-director.
  • We both really wanted to have the same last name, however, so we did a double last name, unhyphenated.
  • The New York Times disagrees; the bank, or infixed subhead, of its Hong Kong article read, “The Hang Seng sets the scene for a global selloff,” unhyphenated. No Uncertain Terms
  • Don’t hyphenate unless the base word begins with an i: maxiskirt, maxi-intelligence. Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage
  • Immediately after the contest was announced experts snapped up hyphenated domain names and began tweaking their text.
  • The difference is that a trema disappears when the word is hyphenated at that specific letter, while an umlaut would stay. Netvouz - new bookmarks
  • I myself am not above such occasional ballyhoo, most recently biting the hook hard on recently fashionable hyphenated mergers of electronics and rock, be it dance-punk or lap-pop or lance-ponk.
  • All Velorian last names are supposed to be hyphenated.
  • Natural product discovery from endophytic fungi based on hyphenated Naturejobs - All Jobs
  • We had to decide whether words like "asswipe" or "shitfaced" should be included, or does the program only know the hyphenated versions. Boing Boing

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