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How to use hyphens in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word hyphens? Here are some examples.

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Search engines see hyphens and commas as spaces, which is why they would count that example as the same word next to itself.
Yes, Ashling is one of those people who eschew normal grammar rules and use only hyphens to get their message across.
I turn off nearly every automatic feature there is, from conversion of hyphens to appropriate dashes, to AutoCorrect and AutoFormat.
For example, it automatically creates en and em dashes when you use two or three hyphens.
Do America's students not know how to correctly cite internet references containing hyphens?
Counting only letters, and ignoring characters like spaces and commas and hyphens, you can see the proof in the definition.
Should your domain be one single word or should the words be separated by hyphens?
It would be nice to think this tip-off enabled him to avoid this fate but I fear his life was lost along with those missing hyphens.
Google ignores most punctuation, except apostrophes, hyphens and quote marks.
As you get to the later levels, the words and phrases become much trickier, complete with hyphens and other special characters.
For example, if you like the looks of hyphens separating datestamp, locators and descriptors, then do it that way every time.
As the hyphens and slash marks indicate, these emergent literatures do not fit under a single rubric.
Domain names with hyphens are a bit harder to remember, but this does not mean that it is a bad choice.
Small deletions are indicated by hyphens and large deletions by triangles.
Periods and hyphens indicate, respectively, base identities and deletions.
In these cases the last letters will be abandoned, speaces eliminated in compound names, and hyphens removed from hyphenated names.
Please enter all 16 digits as they appear on your card, without inserting hyphens or spaces.
Style information: The full version should always take hyphens between the words.
Scheme's naming conventions seem to prefer lowercase letters with hyphens, which I've followed in the naming of the function.
Authority control numbers may be entered either with, or without the hyphens.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The look he got, made him cut it suddenly short and not put any more hyphens in it.
In fact, the recently published Shorter Oxford English Dictionary just knocked out 16,000 hyphens out of 16,000 words.
The narrow columns of text produced for the newspaper lead to quite a lot of hyphens being automatically generated by our computer system.
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