How to Use hyphen in a Sentence

hyphen

noun

• The commercial bumpers call the show The A Team — no hyphen.
  — Richard Hack, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2023
• 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 opening credits label the show The A-Team — with a hyphen.
  — Richard Hack, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2023
• 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
• Horn lay eight miles offshore, a hyphen on the horizon's hazy line.
  — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 4 July 2017
• By the end of the 2019 season, Davis had lost one hyphen and gained a new title: All-American.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 6 June 2020
• 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
• Our goal is to try to go without a hyphen with these prefixes.
  — WSJ, 5 Apr. 2022
• From the start, and even before the hyphen, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen shattered glass ceilings.
  — David Smiley, miamiherald, 30 Apr. 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
• Dear Carolyn: Our young child has both my husband’s and my last names, no hyphen and no middle name.
  — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022
• The fourth one, at precisely 102.8 mph, was the one that will live for as long as people talk Yankees and Red Sox with the hyphen in between.
  — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 15 Aug. 2017
• Here is what the wrathful fought about recently: Does the president know what a hyphen is?
  — Abby Ohlheiser, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019
• 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
• 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
• In those cases, numbers were omitted or hyphens have been added.
  — Alexandra S. Levine, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• No one had really paid too much attention to the hyphen.
  — Thomas Curwenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• 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 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
• 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
• Four years later, Semanick was 21 years old, and pre-hyphen.
  — Lauren McCutcheon, Philly.com, 12 Feb. 2018
• The computer marked it as a naughty word and substituted three hyphens.
  — NBC News, 23 May 2018
• Still, the removal of the hyphen continued to interest music fans.
  — Ajc Homepage, ajc, 20 June 2017
• 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
• Over time, however, that hyphen came to represent a melding of the old and the new to create the most trusted news source for our community.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 14 Oct. 2017
• New to my keyboard, and still new-ish to the pages of the Globe, were words like cisgender (meaning not transgender) and bi-gender (which really needs a hyphen in print.
  — Stephanie Ebbert, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• The hyphen is back, according to an initial report from Pitchfork.
  — Adelle Platon, Billboard, 19 June 2017
• 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

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024