How to Use quotation mark in a Sentence

quotation mark

noun
  • This is a form of art—no quotation marks—that makes sense in a world that frequently does not.
    — Sheila Marikar, ELLE Decor, 6 Sep. 2018
  • But Wohlleben doesn’t bother with quotation marks, because that would break the spell of his prose.
    — Diàna Markosian, Smithsonian, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Play close attention to those quotation marks.
    — Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2026
  • These connectors can be combined with each other and with terms in quotation marks.
    — Kristen Finch, JSTOR Daily, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Text can be absorbed in blocks; the eye searches for keywords or names or other pointers such as quotation marks.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Try making part of your signature bold, add a link or use the quote function (quotation marks icon) to add a favorite line.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Fixed an issue where messages containing quotation marks sometimes might fail to send.
    — Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Vladimir Nabokov once wrote that reality is one of the few words that means nothing without quotation marks.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Here’s a synopsis, complete with many quotation marks because both Shia and Kanye are deeply quotable.
    — Emilia Petrarca, The Cut, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Into every jab went black ink, eventually forming the shape of double quotation marks.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Type the phone number into Google, Bing, or Yahoo in quotation marks for a precise match.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Also the use of quotation marks with the term, assault weapon, trivializes how Americans view these guns.
    — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • From the get-go, hovering quotation marks become Abloh’s signature.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Grammarly for Free Confused about which characters go inside quotation marks and which go outside?
    — Brenda Stolyar Matt Jancer, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The bug is known as an unquoted service path, which as its name suggests, happens when a developer forgets to surround a file path with quotation marks.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Presnal is a chef who likes having fun, and his menu is littered with coy quotation marks, signaling foods that playfully masquerade as other foods.
    — Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 25 June 2019
  • To limit the number of unrelated results such as results with similar names, the researchers searched for names in quotation marks.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
  • McCarthy had a strong aversion to punctuation, and often stripped his books of quotation marks, commas and hyphens.
    — Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
  • Search the entity’s name in quotation marks in your browser and look for sources that critically review the organization or group.
    — Elaine Watson, The Conversation, 30 July 2024
  • But truncation, typically, does not work within quotation marks.
    — Kristen Finch, JSTOR Daily, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Either way, those quotation marks are the first signs of a cynicism that pervades Reza’s project, now expanding to enshroud this whole production.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Yet even this slightly less dissatisfied Shauna (played superbly as always by Melanie Lynskey) goes through life in quotation marks.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Use quotation marks to set off the titles of short works — poems, chapters, magazine articles, short stories, and songs, which are usually included in longer works.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
  • In some ways it was set up to fail from the moment those infamous quotation marks around the title were revealed; an attempt by Fennell to get ahead of the very criticisms that have been published this week.
    — Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 12 Feb. 2026
  • There’s always another interview to parse, another set of quotation marks to unpack, another set of references to dissect.
    — Melvin Backman, GQ, 22 June 2018
  • Historians such as Orlando Figes use the phrase in quotation marks, with longer explanation to inform the reader that the phrase hid mass slaughter.
    — David Randall, National Review, 10 Jan. 2018
  • He was known for a unique style that used deceivingly, simple declarative sentences, sparse punctuation, and dialogue without quotation marks.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 14 June 2023
  • Emerald Fennell is reminding skeptics why there are quotation marks around the title of her Wuthering Heights adaptation.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Phrases that appear inside quotation marks represent a subject’s exact words as heard by the reporter, written in a transcript, quoted in a police report or captured on a recording.
    — Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The corporation announced that Gay would be requesting four corrections in two articles to insert citations and quotation marks that were not present in the original text.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2024

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