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.
• 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
• Democrats in Congress say things like that, too, just not for quotation.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2024
• 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
• The choice of quotation is clearly fitting for a wedding, an occasion on which the power of love is clear.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 19 May 2018
• There was just one hitch: No one — not the airline’s lawyers, not even the judge himself — could find the decisions or the quotations cited and summarized in the brief.
  — Benjamin Weiser, New York Times, 27 May 2023
• Like plenty of catchy quotations, this seems unfair, but with half a point rattling around inside.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024