Examples of backslash in a Sentence
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It had been mounted on a small platform, which bore a little icon of a pair of feet inside a backslash circle, as though stepping into a guillotine were every museumgoer’s wish.
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Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026
Note that names with spaces require a backslash before each space.
—ArsTechnica, 27 Feb. 2026
Unfortunately, those same power users will want to defenestrate the little laptop, due to its strange rehoming of the backslash key.
—Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 21 June 2020
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Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026
Note that names with spaces require a backslash before each space.
—ArsTechnica, 27 Feb. 2026
Unfortunately, those same power users will want to defenestrate the little laptop, due to its strange rehoming of the backslash key.
—Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 21 June 2020
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“Backslash.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/backslash. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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backslash
noun
back·slash
-ˌslash 
: a mark \ used especially in computer programming
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