How to Use dashed in a Sentence

dashed

adjective

• This graph’s dashed green line shows the core CPI trend that was interrupted.
  — John S. Tobey, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• The dashed black line on the graphs shows the total sea level rise when combining these four budgets.
  — Jackson Dill and Brandon Miller, CNN, 26 Mar. 2021
• Gauzy American landscapes — a red-rock desert, a rainbowed glade — are threaded with a dashed red line that tracks the snails’ progress.
  — Julia Turner, New York Times, 18 May 2018
• The map should have indicated the area, annexed by Russia in 2014, with a dashed border line.
  — New York Times, 7 Nov. 2019
• Any situation in which there are three times as many applicants as openings is going to lead to a lot of dashed hopes.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2021
• Carrie Bradshaw style, why on earth would someone want to win back Lindsay, a cluster bomb of dashed expectations?
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2021
• Manson felt double-crossed by Melcher over his dashed hopes of a record contract, biographer Dillon wrote in the National Post.
  — CBS News, 20 Nov. 2017
• But Israelis with dashed vacation plans, now stuck at home, hope that vaccination campaigns will help contain the outbreak and make Dubai trips possible again soon.
  — Arkansas Online, 1 Jan. 2021
• But there is one tech figure who has managed to keep the Chinese public in his thrall, whose mix of impish bomb-throwing and captain-of-industry bravado seems tailor-made for this time of dashed dreams and disillusionment: Elon Musk.
  — New York Times, 11 Mar. 2021
• The complete shutout was not only a surprise, but a dashed opportunity for Golden Globes history: Nanjiani could have been the first Pakistani star to win an acting statuette at the awards ceremony.
  — Yohana Desta, HWD, 11 Dec. 2017
• Your hassle is some reputation exposure, some administrative expense, and some dashed investor expectation as to liquidity, but none of those are catastrophic.
  — Polina Marinova, Fortune, 18 May 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024