How to Use quotation in a Sentence

quotation

noun
  • He gathered quotations from the trial transcript to prove his point.
  • She relied heavily on quotation in her essays, which made them less original.
  • Democrats in Congress say things like that, too, just not for quotation.
    Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2024
  • Spanning T-shirts, denim jackets, jeans, jockstraps and more, each garment is trimmed with a special canvas tape printed with a quotation from the artist.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Located on a sloping hillside, the site included a long, low wall made of Deer Isle granite to be inscribed with quotations from Kennedy’s most famous speeches.
    Emily Langer, Washington Post, 21 June 2024
  • Few quotations were on the record, other than those from administration officials who were offered to reporters by the White House to vouch for the president’s fitness.
    Dan Balz, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
  • No one is the sum of her entries in Bartlett’s or the Goodreads.com quotation vaults.
    Dwight Garner, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2017
  • And that's all the more reason to think twice about a great quotation.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The hymn’s lyrics, though, are a quotation from another part of the Bible.
    Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 12 July 2018
  • If there are a lot of people with the same name as the broker, use quotation marks around the name to limit the search.
    Chris Carosa, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Almost all of the quotations in this section are drawn from that group.
    Molly Ball, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2017
  • As my quotation marks imply, that's still a very big number, in the grand scheme of things.
    Kevin Dowd, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Try to bring that quotation to mind the next time your uncle tries dragging you down into the mud for a fight.
    cleveland, 9 Jan. 2022
  • A lot of agencies don’t know how to get clients outside of the request for quotation/pitch process.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 9 June 2022
  • There were no quotation marks around the passages, but the sources were cited in footnotes.
    Michelle Liu, USA TODAY, 17 June 2017
  • The quotations—three hundred and forty-two of them—are numbered and arranged by theme.
    Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
  • That makes this a fun book to read, though a windy one, as the long quotation in the previous paragraph suggests.
    Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2021
  • The world turns away Just to transcribe these quotations is awful.
    Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 2 May 2024
  • In the book’s first half, there’s hardly a direct quotation from Mackay, and that’s too bad.
    Jonah Raskin, SFChronicle.com, 25 June 2018
  • Like much of Wiley’s work, the statue is a quotation of centuries-old styles.
    Kriston Capps, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2019
  • But Warren came to learn that quotations and data points weren’t enough.
    Liz Goodwin, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2019
  • The senator did not say where that quotation came from.
    New York Times, 21 Mar. 2022
  • There are also passages filled with quotations from the Bible.
    Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 20 June 2018
  • In the book’s quotations from her stream-of-consciousness journals, readers can trace her path to peace of mind.
    New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
  • There comes a point, though, where irony hits its limit: No one can couch what Wood describes as rape in edgy quotation marks.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The quotation attributed to him is correct in its first words but then takes his speech out of context.
    Tonyaa Weathersbee, USA TODAY, 21 June 2020
  • But there's a larger lesson here than just one man's Bible quotation gone wrong.
    Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
  • If someone uses the formal name in a quotation, and the quote is necessary, that is fine.
    WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
  • If there is a single colorful quotation to his name, it has not been found.
    Chris Buckley, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2019
  • Biden's comment about the Logan Act are the only words that appear in quotation marks.
    Daniel Chaitin, Washington Examiner, 24 June 2020

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