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Sentence Examples
| After all, once you've learned the difference between a hyphen and an em dash, there is no going back. |
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| I had just knocked off three bagels and lox with cream cheese, and washed em down with four cups of very strong coffee. |
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| This includes quotes, apostrophes, ellipses, em and en dashes, multiplication symbols, and ampersands. |
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| I'd like to type hair spaces either side of em dashes and wonder whether there was a system-wide shortcut that I could use. |
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| You'll need a pen, to write down your answers, and at the end we'll tally up and see whether you've got em right or not. |
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| Endoscopy revealed a large gastric bezoar and a 2 x 3 em lower esophageal ulcer that was thought to be the source of bleeding. |
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| Go buy a few shirts, take them to a printer, get them printed and sell em to your friends at cost. |
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| For example, it automatically creates en and em dashes when you use two or three hyphens. |
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| He freely modernizes punctuation, which is fine, but is generous in the use of em dashes, so that in his letters he sounds like a breathless Jane Austen heroine. |
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| We all ll lov ove em embr brac acin ing our in inne ner ro rock ck chi hick ck luckily the leather biker jacket has becom wardrobe staple. |
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| And a new address type has be, em introduced, called Anycast address, which can send a message to the nearest single member of a group. |
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| Lordy! Call your dogs off, call your dogs off! Oh! Lordy! call em off quick! quick! |
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| They'll show you tintypes of the kids more often than not, hell, they love em chavalitos. |
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| Infeccao natural por Herpesvirus hominis em Callithrix jacchus jacchus Callithricidae. |
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| They may send copies of themselves to other computers, such as through em ail or Internet Relay Chat. |
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| Couple boys from way downcountry come for a summer in the woods. Isaac Cole talked to em. |
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| Some are become great, some atcheeues greatnesse, and some haue greatnesse thrust vppon em. |
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| That white man buys up all this old-timey stuff he can get his hands on, all through this country. The very tools I lived by, he sells em for antiques. |
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| Every two weeks the chief constable, his deputy and the assistant chief constables sit down for an hour and answer em ailed questions from all sections of the force. |
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| Em scanned the schoolyard with drooped eyelids in a pleasant daydream trying to find a liable distraction. |
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| Em shook her head, her thoughts darkening her mood once again. |
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| What that meant Em wasn't sure, but her deep blue eyes and long lashes were often called bedroom eyes, and drew more than a few compliments. |
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| There were 11 reinterventions in the curettage group, compared with 30 in the EM group. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| However, we stick to our men, and we take em all, and carry em off to the station. |
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| The usual indention of paragraphs in plain reading matter is an em quad at the beginning of the first line. |
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| You can hand em the spiel you gave me, and see how much they believe of it. |
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| It aint all in havin a good receipt, though it Stans to reason if you dont take the right things theres no use puttin em together. |
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| We'll keep to ourselves and pay no attention to em no more'n if they wa'n't there. |
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| Then one of em replyd, Governor, you are a Lyar, and guilty of that Infamy. |
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| An whats more, Id a lawed em, an jawed em, an fought em from now till the crack o doom. |
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| Credits at the end of matter are best set in italic lower-case, without any em dash to connect the credit with the quotation. |
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| I tell yer, Aunt Becky, it done me good all over to see em so flustrated, and he burst into a loud guffaw. |
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| So you tell me who are the top of the bunch in our class, and Ill go and fetch em in if I have to rope em and hog-tie em. |
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| They cant see through the wall, you lunkhead, answered Bob, and if anyone comes out well see em and let you know. |
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| It's so tejus to knit stockings, and sech fun to go barefoot, that I don't wear' em unless misc Somers finds it out. |
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| They hain't got no blood intew em like Sabbath-breakers, an blasphemers, an rapers has. |
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| Dey fed' em wasp-nes' bread, 'stead o' corn-pone an' hoe cake, an' all such lak. |
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| We each had a chocolate bar and a cream puff and some peanuts, got em on the way to school, that is, I did. |
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| But weve always called em Bertie and Louie, and I cant get out of the abit of it now. |
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| His young mistress heard em say he was going to be free and she walked up and hocked and spit in his face. |
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| Out fluttered one of those bits of tissue paper that come between engraved cardsto keep em from smudging, you know. |
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| An old-time rule required an em quad after a period before beginning another sentence in the line. |
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| It is desirable to end a paragraph with an em quad, if this is practicable, rather than fill the last line flush. |
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| Guess Ill ring in some of teddys 97 trip on em to-morrow night. |
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| Then let em drown, and be dd to emthe mutinous dogs, said he. |
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| Vendem se a cruzado em papel em casa de Francisco fernandez na rua noua. |
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| I didnt see any mention of em in your report of last nights proceedings. |
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| Nose em is but a contraction of the rhyming slang, which see. |
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| And whats to keep me from shootin them steers when I catch em in here? |
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| One time he treed forty-seven of em where the ground was soft and swampy. |
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| If those devils are off in that seaplane, we may get em yet. |
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| Got em on, but thats all the good it does, responded the truckman. |
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| Laurie is as full of didoes as usual, and turns the house upside down frequent, but he heartens the girls, so I let em hev full swing. |
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| The em dash should be used to signify an abrupt change or to set apart parenthetic elements. |
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| Group B is composed of Etoile du Sahel, Essafa, Borj Bouaririj and Al Ittihad while Group A includes EM Mahdia, CRB Baraki, Al Ahly, Ghouroun and Ennejma. |
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