How to Use comma in a Sentence

comma

noun

• The ant, curled like a comma in my palm.
  — Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
• Silver streaked the black comma of his fringe.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
• Names and figures are facts; commas can be, too.
  — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
• Knight was used to sticking to every word and comma in the script.
  — Chris Nashawaty, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
• Below are the five ways these financiers have joined the three-comma club.
  — Tom Metcalf, Bloomberg.com, 14 May 2018
• Or maybe, at the risk of seeming too flippant, that comma should be a colon.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 27 Apr. 2023
• And then there’s that comma, dangling like an untied shoelace off the end of the line.
  — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 2 Nov. 2023
• Because every word and every comma of this has some of my mom in it.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity.com, 13 May 2017
• In the hands of a skilled poet, even a mere comma can be the conductor of time.
  — Magdalena Zurawski Anne Boyer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• In a series of three or more terms, add a comma after each term except the last.
  — Eli Grober, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
• Pretty sure there’s going to be an extra comma in his salary.
  — Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 11 Mar. 2025
• On closer inspection, the comma turns out to be some schmutz or stray ink.
  — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• That’s fine, but the end of that sentence needs to be a comma, not a period.
  — Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2023
• List as many or as few teams as you’d like, all on one line, separated by commas.
  — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026
• Less good is that nobody has settled on a comma tone or common cadences.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 July 2019
• The case of the dairy-truck drivers’ comma has got several things going for it.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2017
• Even members of the elite three-comma club have trouble finding love sometimes.
  — Laura Smythe, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
• Cousin to the comma, niece or nephew to the colon, this kindred outcast yearns for connection.
  — Gary Gilson, Star Tribune, 26 June 2021
• Their poor grasp of the discretionary and nondiscretionary comma is not their fault.
  — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• Virginia lost to a school with a comma in its name and a golden retriever as its mascot.
  — Joseph Goodman, AL.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• But putting a comma between a verb and its direct object is not a common mistake.
  — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
• Depending on the tone or the song, the comma can come to signify boundary or bridge.
  — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 2 Mar. 2026
• Just like a comma forces a pause in a sentence, take a beat before making decisions.
  — Jason Richmond, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• Each of the four tracks on At Source has a two-word title, split down the middle with a comma.
  — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 2 Mar. 2026
• For a good hybrid mattress without a comma in the price tag, Allswell is a safe bet.
  — Wired, 19 Feb. 2022
• The student had somehow missed the comma in the last line, which only made his paper more heartfelt.
  — Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
• Even in her extended answers, her quote might stretch to a sentence that involved a comma.
  — Chantel Jennings, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
• In the long take, there are a lot of periods, commas, and exclamation points.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2023
• My new thing is teaching people about something called the Cambridge comma.
  — Riane Konc, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
• Now another boom, AI, has thrust him back into the three-comma club.
  — Kirk Ogunrinde, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026