How to Use comma in a Sentence

comma

noun

• My statement was more of a comma than an exclamation in our dialogue.
  — Jennifer Thuy Vi Nguyen, Longreads, 11 June 2024
• There’s an unwritten law that literary fiction set in the high plains be sturdy and simple — sentences firm as fence posts, commas hammered in as clean as barn nails.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024
• Knight was used to sticking to every word and comma in the script.
  — Chris Nashawaty, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
• In the hands of a skilled poet, even a mere comma can be the conductor of time.
  — Magdalena Zurawski Anne Boyer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• And then there’s that comma, dangling like an untied shoelace off the end of the line.
  — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 2 Nov. 2023
• Below are the five ways these financiers have joined the three-comma club.
  — Tom Metcalf, Bloomberg.com, 14 May 2018
• The comma drama has raised eyebrows—and not just in Maine.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 16 Mar. 2017
• Or maybe, at the risk of seeming too flippant, that comma should be a colon.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 27 Apr. 2023
• The comma drama has raised eyebrows—and not just in Maine.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 16 Mar. 2017
• That’s fine, but the end of that sentence needs to be a comma, not a period.
  — Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2023
• There was one problem, Trosch said: A semi-colon should have been a comma.
  — Jim Morrill, charlotteobserver, 27 Apr. 2018
• Because every word and every comma of this has some of my mom in it.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity.com, 13 May 2017
• Cousin to the comma, niece or nephew to the colon, this kindred outcast yearns for connection.
  — Gary Gilson, Star Tribune, 26 June 2021
• On closer inspection, the comma turns out to be some schmutz or stray ink.
  — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• The case of the dairy-truck drivers’ comma has got several things going for it.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2017
• For a good hybrid mattress without a comma in the price tag, Allswell is a safe bet.
  — Wired, 19 Feb. 2022
• Changing a comma to a semicolon alters the meaning of death.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Sep. 2021
• Refinery29 has reached out to Witherspoon's team for comment about her reprisal of Mrs. Woods comma Elle.
  — Morgan Baila, refinery29.com, 4 June 2018
• The answer depends on what role the second comma is playing.
  — Dennis Duncan, Washington Post, 26 July 2022
• The student had somehow missed the comma in the last line, which only made his paper more heartfelt.
  — Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
• Lee is the latest in a growing list of Korean entrepreneurs to join the three-comma club in recent years.
  — John Kang, Forbes, 25 June 2021
• Their poor grasp of the discretionary and nondiscretionary comma is not their fault.
  — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• In the long take, there are a lot of periods, commas, and exclamation points.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2023
• On the phone, Tingley-Hock comes across as a testy fellow, the kind of guy who could get prickly about a missing Oxford comma.
  — Jack Hitt, Wired, 13 Aug. 2020
• Even members of the elite three-comma club have trouble finding love sometimes.
  — Laura Smythe, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
• Part of the tentacle rests on a cake of black lentils, set off with dots of avocado puree, which plays the role of a comma between bites of seafood.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2019
• Likely there was a comma that has faded over the years in between those words, but even with bran and hops, this would taste nothing like beer.
  — Markus Haas, San Antonio Express-News, 3 May 2018
• Virginia lost to a school with a comma in its name and a golden retriever as its mascot.
  — Joseph Goodman, AL.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• As host nation, Canada holds the pen; but each clause and comma will have been debated and approved.
  — Theophilos Argitis, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2018
• But putting a comma between a verb and its direct object is not a common mistake.
  — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024