How To Use Punctuate In A Sentence

With her legs curled under her on a sofa, she is relaxed enough to punctuate the conversation with sudden gusts of wild laughter.
During periods of punctuated equilibrium everything is in flux, disequilibrium becomes the norm, and uncertainty reigns!
Traditionally the life of a soldier involves long stretches of boredom punctuated by brief and seemingly unending moments of stark terror.
The two fish were paired with fresh vegetables and tiny fried potato globes, which were all brought nicely together by a rich cream sauce and punctuated with a brilliant red burst of caviar.
Roy Round, whose dance photographs fill this handsome volume, is at his best when he is straightforward, when the subject seems to emerge from luminous, unpunctuated space, and when the challenge of pure movement is palpable.

Stanley's complaint is about the inadequacy of phyletic gradualism to account for the known facts of paleontology and the superiority of punctuated equilibria as an explanation for those facts.
Exhausted and semi-conscious, my peripheral awareness of a sort of beige abyss was occasionally punctuated by explosions of extreme color.
The Doctor's harrowing account of the orthopaedic centres for polio and landmine victims was punctuated with the earthy humour of the people he deals with.
The skittering streaks and brushy splashes of color - punctuated by incidental drips and blobs - tend to remain discrete, but when they are allowed to run together, the effect is spectacular.
The President spoke at length in a speech punctuated by applause.
She is frisky and good humoured like a bouncy Labrador, gushing with anecdotes punctuated by a laugh, which is a cross between a joyous cackle and a happy crow.
The images spread over several walls, punctuated by windows offering a panorama of the actual Bund, the Huangpu River and the futuristic Pudong district beyond.
The narcotic rhythms are punctuated with a series of brief freeze-frames, an initially distracting device which lends a woozy, hung-over perspective to a woozy, perpetually hung-over protagonist.
The text is liberally punctuated with useful graphs tables and illustrations that help to summarize data and convey key concepts.
In vibrant, unpunctuated prose purporting to be Ned's own words, Carey explores Australia's most enduring myth.
Cottonwoods along the rivers made the tallest vegetative layer, and on the surrounding prairies grew shoulder-high sage and greasewood, punctuated by the bunchgrasses close to the ground. Bird Cloud
Within the broad outlines of a speech punctuated with applause lines andpolitical humor, he underscored several issues that have been on consumers' radar screens. Obama's speech and the State of the Consumer
It's a video litany of natural disasters, of wind and rain and snow and donder and blitzen, punctuated with images of lesser vehicles incapacitated by the elements, while Hummers sail serenely through. Patt Morrison: Hummer? No, Bummer!
These frozen, silent moments were punctuated by the hum, whir and click of slide projectors changing and revolving, reminding us of their outdatedness and sheer physicality.
Some writers can spell and punctuate; some can't. Some writers will reveal a lifetime of experience; some will display a youthful naivety.
Granted, there is a trueness of voice in those who have experienced first-hand the hours of relentless boredom punctuated by moments of abject terror that is combat, or law enforcement, for that matter.
This route is punctuated by farms with ace brick barns; we passed more, some roofless, some heading that way, and joined the River Seven to take its low floodbank.
The children have not yet learned to punctuate correctly.
Leaving the pub, I venture out into this cathedral and notice the bob and swing of hand-held lanterns on the far side of a dark field punctuated with sarsen monoliths. Archive 2008-06-01
It is another one of those familiar dormitory towns that punctuate the south-east of England.
The lower level has patterned brick exterior walls punctuated by arched windows, while the upper walls are heavy wood timber with stucco infill.
Three dozen illustrations punctuate Stokes's reissued text of 1934.
The familiar ring of ricocheting bullets punctuates the game's menus.
His words sharply punctuated, delivered in coarse staccato. 365 tomorrows » 2007 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Below the house, stretching into the far and hazy distance, lie fields and woods almost totally unpunctuated by the developments of man.
Because the campus is punctuated by a series of natural and man-made lakes, streams and fountains, water plays an important sensate role in the psyche of the community.
After climbing a flight of steps next to the original Iain Mellis cheesemonger's shop, you enter a dimly lit first-floor room, which is long and thin and punctuated by a couple of intimate alcoves.
The Extended Synthesis says those jumps are sometimes hundreds of millions of years and you've coined the term punctuated evolution to cover this. The Origin of Form Was Abrupt Not Gradual
The music is is characteristically punctuated with sounds of cymbals, drums and long trumpets.
Each blow to the kisser is punctuated with caterwauls of, yup; you guessed it, MUMMY DO IT!) (Mummy indeed does it, and peace is restored. Archive 2007-03-01
He strips sound down to its bare essentials: few notes punctuated by frequent silences.
Cortes speaks to both of us at once - to him in rapid Spanish, to me in tentative English punctuated by long gaps in which he turns his limpid brown eyes my way, imploring me to help him find the missing words.
What Robertson’s simulation describes is anagenesis and that is not punctuated equilibria. Evolution as Feedback? - The Panda's Thumb
His hair is oiled and groomed into a beehive topknot; his high, unfurrowed forehead is punctuated with a round caste mark.
The graceful arch of the main beach is transplanted from an early 20th Century French daydream, with a broad pedestrian corniche punctuated by graceful wrought iron lamps.
This resulted in a complete lack of rhythm and short rallies punctuated by frequent drop shots.
The song is punctuated by long guitar riffs.
She cleaned his clothes when they were dirty; she worshipped him when he didn't believe he was anything; she edited his writing when he forgot to punctuate.
The duo display a likable rapport and a healthy sense of irony, and their show is punctuated by flashes of invigorating idiocy.
She punctuated the point by kissing him on the cheek and giving him a slow wink.
The failure of love punctuates much of the intellectual cleverness of Farrell's works.
The landscape is punctuated by hills which are often topped with a thin band of limestone known locally as cornstone.
Great flashes of light illuminated the whole area, punctuated by the rumbling of thunder clouds.
The picture quality is superb, punctuated by the lush colors of the gang's neighborhood pub and the panache of their respective flats.
Many slather gray mud over their naked skin, giving themselves a wan, ghoulish cast, and they saunter through a surreal panorama punctuated by eccentric installations.
The rhythm of modern life is punctuated by beeps, bleeps and a generalized attention deficit disorder.
War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement.
With an elocutionary erudition surpassing that of his friendly rival, conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr., Moynihan held forth with a staccato bravado -- that sometimes bordered on the comical -- punctuated by pregnant pauses, the result of a speech impediment and not, as Moynihan's political opponents sometimes suggested, a drinking problem. Michael Sigman: Pat Moynihan's Letters Illuminate an Extraordinary Life
Martin punctuated the burst with a 21-footer off a feed from National Basketball Association - Knicks vs. Nets
He did not bother to punctuate the telegraph message.
The booming voice of the quizmaster is being punctuated by the beep of mobile phones receiving text messages.
Bastian puts a contemporary spin on classic soul with beat and horn stabs that punctuate her retro vocal.
In addition, bright granular or punctuate structures termed foci were also noted in the perinuclear region around the Golgi apparatus (stained with anti-GM130 in red). PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
They adopt an abrupt, unpunctuated, lower-case style difficult to comprehend even by their correspondents.
Nowadays, he still punctuates every practice punch with a sharp verbal exclamation: Uh!
The bedrock is an ancient, heavily eroded Cambrian metamorphic plateau dramatically punctuated by a chain of isolated flat-topped mountains. Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger
These are punctuated in somber and sorrowful moments by elegiac strings.
It has not escaped my notice that the older authors like to punctuate with a semicolon where the illocutionary force changes; but that is hardly enough to indicate that we are not dealing with coordination.
The play was punctuated by the merciless clangor of wood blocks.
The urban landscapes of Ghana are visually punctuated with signs promoting everything from boutiques, barber shops, and beauty salons to locksmiths, lotto vendors, and communication services.
Snide remarks laced with pomposity is not appreciated by most, nor is sarcasm punctuated by right/wrong posturing; therefore, I will just try and share my limited information as best I can and if you wish to comment, it will be welcomed. Living in Mexico
Camberley is another one of those familiar dormitory towns that punctuate the south-east of England.
Weird sounds and musical zingers punctuate the soundtrack.
A memorable presentation will rarely be an unpunctuated sequence of equations or an uninflected recitation of sources of systematic error.
Small plants at left, clods of earth at center, and arcs of grass at right punctuate the narrow ground.
Although the surface of the ocean basins is relatively uniform it is punctuated in places by volcanoes.
Pota passed into law with 425 ayes to 296 nays after a bitter 10-hour debate that was punctuated by vicious personal attacks.
The title of the series alludes to Schoenberg's precept; "re:sonance," so punctuated, implies both history and sound. NYT > Home Page
In the undergrowth you can see white anemones, while the marshes are punctuated by kingcups and irises.
Some eighteenth-century Chinese ceramics with monochrome glazes and iridescent surfaces influenced his glazes, which were primarily iridescent monochromes punctuated with crystals.
These are approximate ages, of course, but they fairly well punctuate the lifetime, eventuating in the life-seasons that we commonly experience. 9/11 - The seventh anniversary is a point of 'maturity'
The earliest method was to derive a contratenor altus from the written discantus by singing the same notes simultaneously at the 4th below, which produced essentially a chain of what would now be called 6-3 chords, varied and punctuated by single 8-5 chords, though with some decorative passing notes and suspensions, particularly at cadences, and on occasion more licentious dissonances. Archive 2008-02-01
Anyway, my last week of surfing was punctuated by fun puddling about in the small waters of Kuta Beach.
At Nili's bedside, she reads her latest novel, extracts of which punctuate the text.
These works combined several shades of white paint in built-up layers of greasy petal-like strokes that were punctuated with dots of ultramarine or alizarin crimson.
The rat-a-tat of the copier in a back office, punctuated by the ring of phones coming from everywhere, like fragments of celestial music trapped in a singularity.
I think the last, unpunctuated SMS was ‘i am going out now i may be some time do not expect further missives’.
And the politically correct asides that punctuate the text - theology is outdated, Roman battle descriptions are offensive - are irksome.
Her outer appearance matches her nicely, as she speaks with precision, in tidy, neatly clipped sentences punctuated with elegant gestures, and her contributions to conversation always seem organized and intelligent. Still More BFF Blogger Goodness!
Our usherettes start striking attitudes and arabesques amongst the audience and thus starts the Prelude to a trilogy of vignettes, punctuated by intervals where we are thankfully encouraged to get up and move about.
The film, punctuated by captions highlighting what the party considers key achievements, wasn't so much about setting out key pledges but setting a tone and feeling for Labour's protagonists.
Immaculate lawns are punctuated with palms and other carefully selected native plants and trees, such as bougainvillea, frangipanis and climbers, to provide a balance of fragrance, colour and shade. Saylow's Blog
There were loud boos, punctuated by occasional defiant claps from isolated guests.
To punctuate his statement, he yanked the last offending hair out and set the tweezers down on his dresser.
Levels of uncertainty escalate enormously in periods of punctuated equilibrium.
The theory of punctuated equilibrium will come to be seen in proportion, as an interesting but minor wrinkle on the surface of Neo-Darwinian theory.
The mixture of Provencal and Normandine exterior was punctuated with trellised ivy.
As the pipe is pushed along the floor the objects turn over and move together and apart, while the metal bar and aluminum objects punctuate the movement with a rich sound.
They fumble with sheets of paper and index cards, and mumble and punctuate every five words with ‘um’.
Her controversial speech was punctuated with noisy interjections from the audience.
Talk about punctuated (or maybe that should be "punctured") equilibrium. The $4 Billion Man
A rushing noise arose outside, growing louder and louder, punctuated by squawks and screeches.
She punctuated her question with a sharp open-handed slap.
The removal of each piece was punctuated by the rip of Velcro.
These are punctuated by starlike nodes and wavelike striations in low relief that are polished to a high gloss. ArtScene: Current California Exhibitions You Should See
34 The Ruine of Rome was punctuated with belligerent language of this sort, and Dent used "papist" and "Romish" as the worst of epithets. Luther and English Apocalypticism: The Role of Luther in Three Seventeenth-Century Commentaries on the Book of Revelation
It is punctuated by public floggings and whippings.
The many short chapters are often punctuated with pregnant little epigrams that underline the plot.
The donko was silent, a silence punctuated by the slap of cards, the scrape of matches and the clatter of enamel mugs.
Clashing cymbals punctuate her hips as they start and stop.
They explore mechanisms of nature through concepts including the butterfly effect, Gaia, attractors and punctuated equilibrium.
George's first-person text is punctuated by the wit and wisdom of his friend and confidant Derek Taylor, whose astute observations put the musings of the ex-Beatle into context.
Coleman also presented an original and rousing lecture at MCA that included slides of Coleman himself looking at the work in the exhibition punctuated by humorous yet insightful commentary.
The same what the hell attitude returns on ‘Out-Side,’ a song where lyrics about dogs and trains are punctuated with cheap sound effects.’
As an orator or ‘communicator’ he was terrible, with one turgid cliché following another, delivered in a folksy drone punctuated by wags of the head.
He returned to his chair as silence and thoughtful reflection punctuated the moment.
Detail shots featuring blow-ups of these reflections punctuate the transcript like posters in a man-hunt for the missing photographer.
It is another of those tiny groups of dots that punctuate the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean.
As long as the unipolar moment lasts, then, unconventional attacks like that on the Cole or on the Khobar Towers or the ambush of the Rangers in Mogadishu will continue to punctuate the headlines.
The seven daily offices punctuate a way of life regulated by prayer, while the passing of the seasons marks time.
The seemingly endless onslaught of the narrator's prose stops mid-sentence and drops us unpunctuated into a cold stream of double-quoted closing dialogue.
Violent shocks punctuated the strong shaking which lasted some 45 to 60 seconds.
The coffee is so good no matter where you go, from small corner caffes to trattorias and pizzerias, the end of a good meal is always punctuated with a shot of espresso.
Here called Trio A Pressured #3, danced by the seven White Oak company members, its original soundlessness and famously uninflected movement - a long, deceptively simple, unpunctuated phrase - have been seriously compromised.
A medieval town dominated by fantastic architecture, it is a gem with ancient streets and alleyways punctuated by beautiful civil and ecclesiastical buildings.
The ample percussion section punctuated the music's flow without overwhelming it.
Great flashes of light illuminated the whole area, punctuated by the rumbling of thunder clouds.
He tends to favor cut-up dirty 70s funk guitar samples that he uses mostly to punctuate his chunky beats.
On health and schools, Mr Latham often spoke in a ponderous bureaucratese punctuated by ‘we'll fix everything’ conclusions.
Cottonwoods along the rivers made the tallest vegetative layer, and on the surrounding prairies grew shoulder-high sage and greasewood, punctuated by the bunchgrasses close to the ground. Bird Cloud
(Then again, it was going to be punctuated by my astute observation that even skinny young undergraduates look silly and – sorry – fat in this stupid belted-sweater look that some moron decided to resuscitate from the 80’s. So, is this about feminism, or my neuroses? You decide! | Her Bad Mother
There have been a number of cold periods (glacials or ice ages), punctuated by warmer periods, of which we are living in one.
A long, literally endless job, thankless breakback labor out in the middle of traffic, under the weather, punctuated by coffee breaks and pauses. Reddit.com: what's new online!
The silence of the night was punctuated by the distant rumble of traffic.
The evolution of religion is punctuated by perpetual revolution and perpetual reformation: semper reformanda. The Times Literary Supplement
Seven engaged columns, each painted totem-fashion with two gargantuan faces, punctuate the hallucinogenic scene.
The popular Christian life in its annual liturgical cycle was a life punctuated by feasts, vigils, fasts, and celebrations.
He wrote plain English, punctuated by short pithy sentences.
The crazy fivesome promise "a host of new songs and a finely tuned performance, punctuated by drunken buffoonery and priceless gems of wit and wisdom".
Bumpy, soccer-ball-sized burls punctuate one side; elsewhere it's crisscrossed with deep fissures that create bold basketweave patterns.
Her delivery is mannered: grandstanding effects punctuated by hammily deadpan understatement and coyly rhetorical pauses emerging from a face cosmeticized into a comic mask.
Postbridge itself was in a little hollow near a river, but the back of this inn faced out over the moor, and the moor was a place transformed, a stark landscape of gentle moonlit hills punctuated by patches of black rock or hollows, quiescent and motionless and unreal. The Moor
A memorable presentation will rarely be an unpunctuated sequence of equations or an uninflected recitation of sources of systematic error.
During periods of punctuated equilibrium everything is in flux, disequilibrium becomes the norm, and uncertainty reigns!
The announcement was punctuated by cheers from the crowd.
Kruger spreads over nearly 20,000 sq km of unspoilt scrubland punctuated by acacia and mopane trees.
On the left, the mouth of a megaphonelike shape contains concentric blue lines punctuated by small yellow disks.
_mima_ "water," in Hebrew _shâmayim_ and _mayim_, which we gather from the cuneiform spelling have been wrongly punctuated by the Masoretes, as well as _khaya_ "living," the Hebrew _khai_, and _makhsû_, "they have smitten him," the Hebrew _makhatsu_. Patriarchal Palestine
Above us the boundless blue sky was punctuated with a few fluffy cirrus clouds and the sun shining down on all of it.
The broad, xeric intermontane Wyoming Basin (18) is punctuated by high hills and low mountains and dominated by grasslands and shrublands. Ecoregions of Montana (EPA)
The plagioclase crystals would have formed subcircular lenses of anorthosite that punctuated background chromite accumulation.
However articulate you are, your everyday speech is punctuated by these nonlexical vocables (as linguists call them). Times, Sunday Times
She answered in a fluently written letter punctuated by dashes about the death of her husband.
Her speeches were punctuated by her son's high - pitched crying as the publicist tried to calm him.
As we walk to the edge of a stream, a stickleback freezes, then darts away in a series of rapid zig-zags punctuated by brief pauses.
The silence of the night was punctuated by the distant rumble of traffic.
Most of the original treatises have perished; two thousand of these, containing three million unpunctuated and unspaced lines, were abridged to one hundred and fifty thousand lines or sentences. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
He recited the chants in a somnambular monotone that was punctuated with an occasional shout at odd moments, shouts perhaps intended to jolt into wakefulness members of the audience who had dozed off. The Soulforge
Punctuated equilibrium is commonly contrasted against the theory of phyletic gradualism, which hypothesizes that most evolution occurs uniformly and by the steady and gradual transformation of whole lineages anagenesis. Secondary Addiction: Ann Coulter on Evolution - The Panda's Thumb
Or are all men's lives like the lives of us good people… broken, tumultuous, agonised and unromantic lives, periods punctuated by screams, by imbecilities, by death, by agonies?
The whole history of the US, indeed, is punctuated with scares, crazes and occasional mass hysteria.
Nightmares flowed like fever, syncopated by the twitch of a neon light outside and the rhythmic clatter of the air-con, punctuated by the shriek of car horns.
The rhythm guitarist, in the same mold as the other two, punctuated the backbeat with a bluesy chord, rotating through a basic progression, changing with each quick, downward strum. 1965, what I wanted - 3
Their conversation was punctuated by uncomfortable silences.
The track features a gently pulsating synthesizer under a spare, reverberating guitar melody, and is punctuated by the sporadic ebb and flow of a stuttering drum beat.
He poured forth a perfect uproar of liquid melody, punctuated with such hurroos and whoops of delight that he made me wonder if his lady love would like such college-song methods of serenading.
Clare had led Carolyn along endless humming corridors, whose walls were punctuated by closed doors.
The video screens were blotted out by the clouds, displaying only swirling mists and droplets of moisture punctuated by a flash as lightning rippled through a cloud.
As MH, the family nurse practitioner, cleaned and sutured the wound, the patient punctuated the air with Henny Youngman-type one-liners.
As he talks about the five albums and non-stop touring that mark his career, his rapid-fire words are punctuated with a serious tone, indicating that music is not just fun and games for him.
The chaste but imposing exterior is revetted with a grid of limestone slabs and punctuated by broad wooden doors.
The first movement's Impressionistic landscape featured a piquant, upward soaring melody with a series of falling thirds from a protagonist oboe, flitting above a feather-bed of sustained string harmonies and bass piano, and punctuated with a walking-like figuration in the piano's treble register, all becoming more urgent toward its close. Rodney Punt: World Premiere by Peter Golub at Chamber Music Palisades
With her long legs curled under her on a sofa in the cavernous main room of her atelier, she is relaxed enough to punctuate the conversation with sudden gusts of wild laughter.
Wonderful that in the original 1855 edition, the poem rests unpunctuated at the end, ready to hand for the next poet, a rapture ready to share.
Anyone who remembers halcyon summers on the islands readily recalls the clackety clack noise of the looms that punctuated every 100 yards or so of a walk through any village.
It's in the shade of the tung trees that the road from Sanyi meanders, punctuated by the occasional panorama of the surrounding countryside.
He writes, ‘It is an unutterable sadness which punctuates the reality that I am called upon to portray, and yet the dominant superstition of my profession demands that I raise a laugh.’
I have not punctuated every fact or example with its academic heritage.
And the question of the Axial Age, and the mysterious resemblance of the modern transition to such 'axial' periods in its explosive discontinuity, almost like a punctuated equilibrium, looms in the background making most sociological thinking inadequate to the task. Darwiniana
Trimeter lines predominate, very short dimeter lines punctuate, and against both rise up the comparatively unexpected yet satisfying lengths of the two thoughtful pentameter and hexameter lines.
The tense silence was punctuated by bursts of gunfire.
There were eight, spanning December 1999 to April 2002, all written in unpunctuated lower-case.
The latter, a boisterous Jersey boy, has a motor mouth and often punctuates his sentences with an infectious bray of loud laughter.
Smooth, uncarved expanses - across the front seat rail, the ankles, and strapwork in the splat - punctuate the passages of carving and allow them to be seen as distinct themes.
Vary your tone of voice to punctuate important points, and keep it moving to capture interest.
Silko is very animated throughout: she punctuates her narrative with emphatic gestures and laughter.
The children have not yet learned to punctuate correctly.
Attempts at singing punctuate the record, and though Mos Def's technique is unconventional and amateurish, his efforts still manage to remain somewhat charming.
Will it result in a facile anti-reductionist anfractuosity so skilfully punctuated way back by E.H. Carr in his What is History?
As it happens, we do not get so much from Miss Stein, for punctuated or unpunctuated her sentences are simply bad, ill-constructed, confused and rhythmless.
The Cedarberg range of the Cape Fold Belt is rugged terrain punctuated with few natural passes. Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
Richie hyperactively schmoozes his way through the series, punctuated by brief moments of insight and intensity.
The political dissention that punctuated the 17th century was bubbling up again. Times, Sunday Times
Already there is a low buzz of excitement, punctuated by the occasional outbreak of applause.
He forcefully articulated his points, which were punctuated with statistics and figures.
It is a clash of civilizations, not economic systems, and it is likely to be long, nasty, and punctuated with harsh reversals.
As they cross into his yard, their voices fade to a dull murmur punctuated by high laughter.
I have to pick through and revise the text, space it, and punctuate it, to make it readable and suitable for use.
The hominid fossil record isn’t even especially “jerky” when examined quantitatvely at fine-scale resolution, so the creationists don’t even have their usual incompetent misconstrual of punctuated equilibria which is actually about morphologically small gaps between closely-related sister species to rely upon. Meet Selam - The Panda's Thumb
In four slim sections of incantatory free-verse, the poem addresses human desire, human invention, and death in elemental phrases and dramatically unpunctuated stanzas.
Might this involve walking tours and buggy rides along reconfigured paths, freshly coated with porous asphalt and punctuated with carefully structured picturesque garden views of heterosexual couples and their strapping, handsome kids in familial bliss, complemented with scenes of equally heterosexual deers, birds and bunnies? Archive 2007-02-01
Commands and injunctions, as I suggested, punctuate the text from the outset.
Now it was a tangle of vines and trees, punctuated occasionally by stone facings buried in a sea of leaves.
The rest of his day will consist of more counseling, punctuated by glasses of slivovitz to drink and little cakes to eat.
The tithe barns, the Rectory, the toll bridges no longer controlled daily life, but they still punctuated the landscape.

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