How to Use hyphen in a Sentence

hyphen

noun
  • Horn lay eight miles offshore, a hyphen on the horizon's hazy line.
    — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 4 July 2017
  • Our goal is to try to go without a hyphen with these prefixes.
    — WSJ, 5 Apr. 2022
  • For his own part, Fuhrmann was happy to have taken on the hyphen and to have won.
    — Thomas Curwenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022
  • In those cases, numbers were omitted or hyphens have been added.
    — Alexandra S. Levine, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • Her last name on her driver’s license had a hyphen, while the one in her voter file did not.
    — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2020
  • The median age in Kalispell is just 35 years old no hyphens here.
    — Emilee Coblentz, Outside, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Under the law, small errors like a space or hyphen between names could be used to discount a ballot.
    — Isabella Gomez, Teen Vogue, 7 Nov. 2018
  • The computer marked it as a naughty word and substituted it with three hyphens.
    — CBS News, 23 May 2018
  • Death was not a punctuation but a hyphen or em dash in the continuum of life.
    — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 4 July 2017
  • The computer marked it as a naughty word and substituted three hyphens.
    — NBC News, 23 May 2018
  • In its place stands JAY-Z, now with the hyphen back in its place and the whole name in all-caps.
    — Christian Holub, PEOPLE.com, 20 June 2017
  • The hyphen welding ‘murder’ to ‘suicide’ implies that each state is as bad, or as tragic, as the other.
    — Clare Egan, Longreads, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The opening credits label the show The A-Team — with a hyphen.
    — Richard Hack, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2023
  • There was also a hyphen for use when the eight-character limit interrupted a word.
    — Star Tribune, 17 July 2021
  • The hyphen is back, according to an initial report from Pitchfork.
    — Adelle Platon, Billboard, 19 June 2017
  • Cara Delevingne just added another hyphen to her already lengthy title.
    — Sam Reed, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2017
  • Anything to the left of the hyphen to define a church can became the central focus of a congregation.
    — Jennifer Brown, The Denver Post, 6 May 2017
  • Still, the removal of the hyphen continued to interest music fans.
    — Ajc Homepage, ajc, 20 June 2017
  • The one that redirects people to a page with links to pro-Trump merchandise is almost the same, but without the hyphen.
    — Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Balliol authorities seemed not to find this amusing, even with the coy little hyphens.
    — Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The problem was the web address printed in the flier left out a hyphen, prompting drivers to visit the wrong website.
    — orlandosentinel.com, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The search function does not allow hyphens, but Kalel is a name given to a couple hundred boys nationwide each year.
    — Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 May 2018
  • That company was Micro-Soft, which shed its hyphen the following year.
    — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2018
  • Where our economy presumes the supremacy of profit, the hyphen situates the worker and owners as true equals.
    — Vanessa A. Bee, The New Republic, 3 June 2020
  • Grammarians will applaud the lack of a hyphen in sport climbing; competitors will climb walls—not another sport.
    — SI.com, 24 July 2019
  • The spellings, without a hyphen or the uppercase S, have been increasingly adopted.
    — WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Then again, the letter also included a hyphen, which seemed sophisticated for a 9-year-old.
    — Monica Hesse, sacbee, 28 July 2017
  • Combo shampoo-conditioners, serum-moisturizers, mask-cleansers—all tend to be better at one side of the hyphen than the other.
    — Kareem Rashed, Robb Report, 28 July 2022
  • The award-winning actress adds another hyphen to her title with her haircare line Flawless by Gabrielle Union.
    — Jacorey Moon, Good Housekeeping, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Her lawyer previously said in court that Vartannivartanians was the correct version of her name, with no hyphens.
    — Elena Santa Cruz, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025

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