How to Use punctuation in a Sentence

punctuation

noun

• Dinner is sort of the punctuation to the end of the day.
  — Noelle Carter, latimes.com, 20 May 2017
• But to quibble over the punctuation is to miss the point.
  — Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2019
• And not just as the punctuation point at the end of a long sentence, but from the middle of a war.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 13 May 2017
• Leffert even added cute faux-Swedish spellings and punctuation on some of the names.
  — Ann Lien, House Beautiful, 5 Nov. 2019
• Then David Ojabo got in on the action with three tackles and a sack of his own at the end of the game that put the final punctuation on the win.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 27 Nov. 2021
• The storm is, so far, the punctuation the point for a very wet winter following five years of drought.
  — Orange County Register, 18 Feb. 2017
• The zesty curry sauce is my punctuation of choice for the fried fare, the restaurant’s top-selling dish.
  — Washington Post, 21 May 2021
• Perhaps the irony is that the punctuation itself is too much.
  — Anna Orso, Philly.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• The semi-enclosed roof adds some punctuation to the scene.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
• In Week 1489 the Empress asked you to rearrange the words in a movie title to make a new one (punctuation could be changed).
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 16 June 2022
• Tragedy comes as strange punctuation; a life is here, then gone, a dream for a nation denied.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2019
• Scatter the berries across the board in small groups or one by one, breaking up solid blocks of nuts, meat, and cheese, like punctuation marks.
  — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 14 Nov. 2022
• Times of great change, of apparent chaos, are just punctuation—the end of one paragraph and the beginning of a new one.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 21 Apr. 2020
• The only punctuation marks were Tiffany, who wore a Republican red pantsuit, and Don Jr., who was in bright blue, to match the flags.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2020
• His prose was now rich but austere, shorn of most punctuation.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• The moment put a punctuation mark on a three-game sweep in Motown and a season-long winning streak.
  — Rustin Dodd, kansascity, 26 July 2017
• And an LV City Steamer bag, with chevron leather and suede panels that picked up on the dress's palette, was the perfect punctuation.
  — Edward Barsamian, Vogue, 12 July 2018
• In addition to the strange wording, there's odd punctuation and a mixture of fonts.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 3 July 2023
• 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
• Then there's the question of the album title — by this point, it's already got two halves, but the punctuation question (slash?
  — Shana Naomi Krochmal, EW.com, 25 Mar. 2021
• That includes paying attention to punctuation and varying the tone of your voice to match the emotion in a book.
  — Mandy McLaren, courier-journal.com, 19 Oct. 2022
• For me, that’s the perfect punctuation of the series, a full-circle moment in the best possible way.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2021
• Paired with super opaque black tights, the slippers removed the punctuation that a shoe gives an outfit.
  — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 26 July 2022
• At the end of his scramble, Herbert rose and signaled first down — the ball still in his right hand — in a gesture that also worked well as punctuation.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• Montgomery put the punctuation on his stellar night with a 62-yard rushing touchdown, which put the game out of reach for Loveland thanks to a 30-point lead.
  — Evan Merrill, The Enquirer, 29 Oct. 2022
• The final few bars put the perfect punctuation on the whole performance.
  — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 18 May 2021
• Miles wrote a couple of pieces and then waited for the papers to come back filled with red marks pointing out the spelling and punctuation mistakes.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2019
• As the evening wound down, guests left with beach-friendly straw totes filled with items from Goop and Saks—the ideal punctuation to a lovely, midsummer night.
  — Vogue, 18 July 2018
• All the letter keys have a secondary function that's accessible via the 123 key: numbers for the top row, and common symbols and punctuation for the bottom two rows.
  — PCMAG, 15 July 2024
• The impulse to exaggerate — and vent his frustration in run-on sentences with odd punctuation and random capitalization — is a sure sign Trump is in a swivet.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024