How to Use ellipsis in a Sentence

ellipsis

noun

• Next, tap the ellipsis icon in the upper-right hand corner.
  — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 16 Aug. 2022
• The use of ellipses in this passage fueled questions about what may have been removed and why.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2019
• That icon will continue to appear on the taskbar alongside the new ellipsis icon.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 21 July 2022
• The very visible boldness of the editing, the leaps and ellipses, keep the idea of cutting very much at the forefront.
  — Adina Hoffman, The New York Review of Books, 18 Apr. 2019
• What inspires you to include so many ellipses in your stories?
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 16 Apr. 2018
• The orbits of Earth and Mars are both gigantic ellipses.
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2019
• Leave it to the erudite Pau Gasol to place an exclamation point between the ellipses.
  — K.c. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
• The ungrammatical use of ellipses to convey a pause or . . .
  — Lynda Robinson, Washington Post, 15 May 2018
• The porter called Snowflake has been sacrificed on the altar of such a standard-practice ellipsis.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2021
• Gavin Leatherwood is laughing — and speaking in ellipses.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 24 Jan. 2020
• The ellipsis… the ‘dot dot dot’ that inspires the greatest practice of patience in this digital era.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• Have there ever been ellipses more fraught with tension in the history of punctuation?
  — Chelsea Peng, Marie Claire, 1 July 2015
• To younger texters: The ellipsis can be used to convey that there’s something left unsaid.
  — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2020
• But there are several points in that document that contain ellipses.
  — NBC News, 29 Oct. 2019
• This only heightens the sense of an oral tradition, of errors and ellipses, of tales that have been rolled over and smoothed out over the years, like the workings of time on a stone.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
• In this case, the ellipsis could insinuate that the person may have other intentions.
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 24 Jan. 2023
• Each ellipsis indicates the start of a different email from a different person.
  — Mike Anthony, courant.com, 9 Aug. 2020
• The film begins and ends with a chorus of recordings of those calls—an appropriate ellipsis, as the search continues.
  — The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2021
• Also, black is the color of the screen between the chapters of a story that takes bold narrative leaps off-screen; the impact of these ellipses is stunning.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2018
• The graphs of such curves are the conic sections — circles, parabolas, ellipses and hyperbolas.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 July 2013
• Their paths will stretch out into long ellipses, which take the objects much farther apart before swinging them much closer together.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Aug. 2019
• Microsoft is now bringing that back into the browser, via the ellipsis (three-dot) menu in the upper right-hand corner.
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 4 Mar. 2021
• So use your best judgment before replying when reading messages with an ellipsis.
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 24 Jan. 2023
• There are ellipses in parts of the transcript, which a US official said doesn’t indicate missing words or phrases.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• In fact, French writer-director Bertrand Bonello leaves a lot of ellipses in his story.
  — Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 1 Sep. 2017
• Nugent uses ellipses after nearly every phrase, which function both as indication of omission and a break in linear time.
  — Adam Bradley Tajh Rust, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• An earlier version of this article, which no longer cites him, incorrectly omitted the ellipsis from his quote.
  — Betsy McKay, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2021
• Yet an ellipsis follows wrapping of the show, hinting at bigger questions that transcend the characters’ storylines.
  — Joelle Renstrom, Slate Magazine, 13 Aug. 2017
• The Cardinals filed off the court in red jerseys stained with sweat and tears, a melancholy punctuation mark on a season that had for so long been extended with ellipses holding the promise of just one more game.
  — Danielle Lerner, The Courier-Journal, 30 Mar. 2018
• The words are memorialized on a mural of a bloodied, victorious Diaz painted on the side of a building in his hometown, the last word replaced by an ellipsis.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024