How to Use punctuation in a Sentence

punctuation

noun

• The punctuation at the end like a nail left in a wall.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
• His prose was now rich but austere, shorn of most punctuation.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• And not just as the punctuation point at the end of a long sentence, but from the middle of a war.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 13 May 2017
• Tragedy comes as strange punctuation; a life is here, then gone, a dream for a nation denied.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2019
• Perhaps the irony is that the punctuation itself is too much.
  — Anna Orso, Philly.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Leffert even added cute faux-Swedish spellings and punctuation on some of the names.
  — Ann Lien, House Beautiful, 5 Nov. 2019
• Your eye travels straight through, to that punctuation of color.
  — Lisa Cregan, House Beautiful, 19 July 2011
• The storm is, so far, the punctuation the point for a very wet winter following five years of drought.
  — Orange County Register, 18 Feb. 2017
• The dark leather pair, cut with slim heels and squared vamps, delivered a sharp punctuation to the brand’s archival mood.
  — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• Please take a few lessons in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
  — Kevin Rutherford, Billboard, 24 Jan. 2018
• The film makes such a statement that its title needed its own punctuation.
  — Vogue, 3 Nov. 2020
• Death was not a punctuation but a hyphen or em dash in the continuum of life.
  — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 4 July 2017
• Cookies are the perfect punctuation for any dessert spread.
  — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 8 Mar. 2026
• And that punctuation is a big, blue, white and pink exclamation point!
  — Dawn Ennis, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• That’s brought me great joy and also been a punctuation for many years in my professional life.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 24 Nov. 2021
• Paired with super opaque black tights, the slippers removed the punctuation that a shoe gives an outfit.
  — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 26 July 2022
• In addition to the strange wording, there's odd punctuation and a mixture of fonts.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 3 July 2023
• Scatter the berries across the board in small groups or one by one, breaking up solid blocks of nuts, meat, and cheese, like punctuation marks.
  — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 14 Nov. 2022
• Aside from punctuation, there may not seem to be much of a difference between a statement and a question.
  — Karn Manhas, Quartz at Work, 2 July 2019
• Her glasses are another, pushed back up the bridge of her nose as a kind of nerd punctuation, a visual stammer.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 25 June 2019
• The final few bars put the perfect punctuation on the whole performance.
  — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 18 May 2021
• Then, the pandemic hit and the lively punctuation became a signal flare in a cold, gray sea.
  — Danny Heitman, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2025
• Times of great change, of apparent chaos, are just punctuation—the end of one paragraph and the beginning of a new one.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 21 Apr. 2020
• The moment put a punctuation mark on a three-game sweep in Motown and a season-long winning streak.
  — Rustin Dodd, kansascity, 26 July 2017
• Carter put the punctuation on a 24-point night with consecutive layups late.
  — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2023
• Remember that the bloom of choice is meant to create a punctuation of sorts and not an exclamation point.
  — Tom Mastronardi, Town & Country, 29 Oct. 2013
• That includes paying attention to punctuation and varying the tone of your voice to match the emotion in a book.
  — Mandy McLaren, courier-journal.com, 19 Oct. 2022
• The meme’s brackets and asterisks—never has punctuation been so eloquent—seemed to step in where words failed.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2026
• It has been edited only for spelling, grammar, punctuation and style.
  — Sacramento Bee Staff, Sacbee.com, 8 Jan. 2026
• While these poems have punctuation at times, more often than not are breathlessly without.
  — Diana Arterian, Literary Hub, 14 May 2026