How to Use punctuate in a Sentence

punctuate

verb

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• The question hung in the cold air, punctuated by the sound of a snoring beagle.
  — Melanie D.g. Kaplan, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• Their Utah organ will punctuate this moment of joy to the world.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Dec. 2022
• The encounter was punctuated by the two sharing a kiss.
  — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• Mister and the Saints punctuated the first half with two more scores.
  — Aidan Thomas, Baltimore Sun, 8 Sep. 2023
• The explosion sent a blast of heat and sound, its boom punctuated by the gunman’s AK-47.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
• That triggered a 9-0 run that put the game away, punctuated by a drive down the lane and two-handed dunk by Parrish.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2023
• The sounds of machine gun fire punctuated the pair’s race to safety.
  — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
• As protests spread, Mr. Magubane’s work was punctuated by beatings and spells in prison.
  — Alan Cowell, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2024
• James punctuated things with a driving score to seal it in overtime, howling and flexing at the crowd with the win about to be in his grasp.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• The images are dark, punctuated only by the green of Elphaba's skin and the pink of Glinda's gown.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2023
• For most of the day, the sky stays a constant blue, the horizon punctuated by the orderly fronds of date palm trees grown on nearby farms.
  — Emma Grillo Kitra Cahana, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2023
• Betts punctuated a four-spot in the bottom half of the third with a double off the wall in left, then added a two-run home run with a fifth-inning blast to left.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• The Pirates beat the Reds, 2-0, punctuating the low point of a disappointing start to the Reds’ season.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 23 Apr. 2023
• This era in the book is punctuated by a grim sequence of photographs.
  — Nicole Rudick, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
• The sky, once punctuated by the silhouettes of birds, is empty.
  — Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
• The story is punctuated by the singing of the griottes, who infuse the feature with a power that grips the heart until the very last second.
  — Trinidad Barleycorn, Variety, 25 Apr. 2023
• The run was punctuated by a rare Timme 3-pointer, just his third of the season, and a breakaway dunk by Anton Watson.
  — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 19 Mar. 2023
• And then, more silence, punctuated by two more phone calls.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• To punctuate that point, PimEyes used a header image of people wearing tinfoil hats on the blog.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2023
• It was also punctuated by a public falling out with the team.
  — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 29 Mar. 2024
• But these stays are punctuated by time with her parents, a few weeks or months at a stretch, miserable.
  — Alex Mar, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
• Paint your walls a nice deep shade of navy and then punctuate the depth with crisp white accents and vibrant bedding for a balanced bedroom.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 16 Dec. 2022
• Here was a whole world of empathetic characters and a compelling plot that had space for my voice and my band’s music to punctuate it.
  — Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 21 Sep. 2023
• Spiked with earthiness of the guajillo and punctuated by the slight ping of micro mustard greens.
  — Jill Wendholt Silva, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
• For a moment, there was just wind, punctuated by silence.
  — Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2024
• In the tavern, knotty wood panels punctuate the soaring brick walls, and amber votives cast a warm glow.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2023
• Those, and others, punctuate the action of the play in which the kitchen workers struggle under the thumb of Clyde, the unforgiving (but very well-dressed) woman who makes their lives hell.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2022
• Six passes, four rushes, punctuated when McCarthy found Wilson on a 13-yard strike to go up three scores.
  — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2023
• Outside and above the cave, a narrow tunnel, punctuated with thermal soaking pools, cut through the mountain.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 12 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024