How to Use quotation mark in a Sentence

quotation mark

noun

• This is a form of art—no quotation marks—that makes sense in a world that frequently does not.
  — Sheila Marikar, ELLE Decor, 6 Sep. 2018
• But Wohlleben doesn’t bother with quotation marks, because that would break the spell of his prose.
  — Diàna Markosian, Smithsonian, 22 Feb. 2018
• Try making part of your signature bold, add a link or use the quote function (quotation marks icon) to add a favorite line.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2023
• Text can be absorbed in blocks; the eye searches for keywords or names or other pointers such as quotation marks.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
• Here’s a synopsis, complete with many quotation marks because both Shia and Kanye are deeply quotable.
  — Emilia Petrarca, The Cut, 13 Mar. 2018
• Vladimir Nabokov once wrote that reality is one of the few words that means nothing without quotation marks.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2018
• The other possibility is that the five tracks start with T, S, L, and !, respectively, and the quotation marks are just there for funsies.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 19 Sep. 2023
• Also the use of quotation marks with the term, assault weapon, trivializes how Americans view these guns.
  — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• McCarthy had a strong aversion to punctuation, and often stripped his books of quotation marks, commas and hyphens.
  — Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
• Historians such as Orlando Figes use the phrase in quotation marks, with longer explanation to inform the reader that the phrase hid mass slaughter.
  — David Randall, National Review, 10 Jan. 2018
• The bug is known as an unquoted service path, which as its name suggests, happens when a developer forgets to surround a file path with quotation marks.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Oct. 2019
• And while the book was indeed mentioned in Putin’s bibliography, the report found that nearly 16 pages of the thesis were copied word-for-word from the textbook without quotation marks, page citations and footnotes.
  — Ian Bremmer, Time, 5 Mar. 2018
• Into every jab went black ink, eventually forming the shape of double quotation marks.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2023
• From the get-go, hovering quotation marks become Abloh’s signature.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 28 Mar. 2018
• Presnal is a chef who likes having fun, and his menu is littered with coy quotation marks, signaling foods that playfully masquerade as other foods.
  — Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 25 June 2019
• Use quotation marks to set off the titles of short works — poems, chapters, magazine articles, short stories, and songs, which are usually included in longer works.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
• In keeping with Off-White's now-iconic typography that always includes quotation marks, Abloh's brand has launched five black travel pouches to help make your packing easier.
  — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2019
• Berlant, a gifted physical comic who whipsaws between over-the-top grandeur and abject awkwardness, introduces her situations with a wink — and even the winks are delivered in quotation marks.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
• Others, describing the village-wide search for Lanny, are rushed run-ons, lacking attributions and quotation marks, creating a sense of muddled panic and frenzy.
  — Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, 18 July 2019
• Throughout the series, quotation marks indicate a subject’s exact words as written in a transcript, as recalled by a party to the conversation or as stated to a reporter, either now or at the time of the investigation.
  — jsonline.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• Unlike his fellow ’90s-genre-maverick buddy Quentin Tarantino, Rodriguez doesn’t put his B-movie material in quotation marks.
  — A A Dowd, Chron, 13 Mar. 2023
• There’s always another interview to parse, another set of quotation marks to unpack, another set of references to dissect.
  — Melvin Backman, GQ, 22 June 2018
• He was known for a unique style that used deceivingly, simple declarative sentences, sparse punctuation, and dialogue without quotation marks.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 14 June 2023
• When file names are formatted in a particular way, an attacker can execute system commands through the QX operator, a function in the Perl programming language that handles quotation marks.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 May 2023
• Gay is proactively requesting four corrections in two articles to insert citations and quotation marks that were omitted from the original publications, the statement said.
  — TIME, 12 Dec. 2023
• Notwithstanding the listing of the candidate's name on the filing papers, spaces, periods, quotation marks, and commas necessary for proper punctuation shall be added by the secretary of state or the county clerk, as appropriate.
  — Melissa Reinert, Cincinnati.com, 2 Oct. 2017
• Conventions – Americans put commas and periods inside quotation marks; British writers put them outside.
  — John McIntyre, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 June 2023
• To avoid troublesome skepticism from colleagues, the investigators made sure to place the topics of their research in quotation marks; the prevailing behaviorist atmosphere made mention of animal emotions an anathema.
  — Frans B. M. De Waal, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
• McCarthy is noted for his style, which employs deceivingly simple, declarative sentences, sparse punctuation, and dialogue free of quotation marks and often missing attribution.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
• Stevens gives Percy’s satellite characters relatively few identifying features, weaving their staccato dialogue throughout her blunt narration without quotation marks.
  — Haley Mlotek, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024