Explore Hyphen through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like dash or punctuation. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Hyphen in a sentence
Related words
Hyphen meaning
- The symbol "‐", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line.
- Something which links two things of greater significance than itself.
Synonyms of Hyphen
Using Hyphen
- The main meaning on this page is: The symbol "‐", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line. | Something which links two things of greater significance than itself. | Something which links two things of greater significance than itself.
- Useful related words include: dash, punctuation, punctuation mark, hyphenate.
- In the example corpus, hyphen often appears in combinations such as: the hyphen, with hyphen, hyphen is.
Context around Hyphen
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 6 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hyphen
- In this selection, "hyphen" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, soft, discretionary, optional, discretionary, optional and although stand out and add context to how "hyphen" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a dropped hyphen in their and a hyphen after the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hyphen" sits close to words such as aborigines, abreu and accommodates, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hyphen
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The hyphen is your friend. (5 words)
The answer depends on whether we count the hyphen as part of the tally. (14 words)
A hyphen can clarify that two adjacent vowels —whether two of the same letter (e. (15 words)
An in-line sign-off with a hyphen is a streamlined method for signing off quickly without wordiness or wasted space, all while staying within the body of the message (and instead of using a traditional carriage return). (38 words)
To wit, more than 54,000 voter registrations are on hold due to Georgia's "exact match" law because a bureaucrat put "NMN" for "no middle name," or they have a dropped hyphen in their last names. (37 words)
Spaces are not placed between a hyphen and either of the elements it connects except when using a suspended or "hanging" hyphen that stands in for a repeated word (as in nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers). (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
For this purpose, the concept of a soft hyphen (discretionary hyphen, optional hyphen) was introduced, allowing such manual specification of a place where a hyphenated break is allowed but not forced.
In contrast, a hyphen that is always displayed and printed is called a mainhard hyphen (although some use this term to refer to a non-breaking hyphen; see below).
Hyphen Hyphen has been up-front about their intent to achieve a more international bent with their sound to connect with a more international audience.
However, the Unicode hyphen is awkward to enter on most keyboards, so the hyphen-minus character remains very common.
Spaces are not placed between a hyphen and either of the elements it connects except when using a suspended or "hanging" hyphen that stands in for a repeated word (as in nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers).
An in-line sign-off with a hyphen is a streamlined method for signing off quickly without wordiness or wasted space, all while staying within the body of the message (and instead of using a traditional carriage return).
An irate FT muscled its way into the tent a few weeks later and the name became the FT-SE 100, with the hyphen eventually dropped.
In March, the government said it plans to award Hyphen strategically significant status, paving the way for more state support.
The title-lines, first: the lack of a hyphen between “drear” and “nighted” adds to the slow weight of the words opening stanzas one and two.
The unique orange Bi-Lo letters that once hung over the location off Old Greenville Highway and the distinctive tiger pawprint that stood in for a hyphen have been gone for three years.
That year, the trustees of North-Western University — then spelled with a hyphen between “North” and “Western” — sent an amendment to their charter to the Illinois state legislature.
The hyphen is your friend.
That puts a lot of pressure on a little piece of punctuation, but, if I’m to be honest and whole, that hyphen needs to keep holding my faith, and me, together.
The answer depends on whether we count the hyphen as part of the tally.
To wit, more than 54,000 voter registrations are on hold due to Georgia's "exact match" law because a bureaucrat put "NMN" for "no middle name," or they have a dropped hyphen in their last names.
A hyphen after the letter indicates that it must be at the beginning of a syllable, e.g. j- in jumper and ajar.
A hyphen before the letter indicates that it cannot be at the beginning of a word, e.g. -ck in sick and ticket.
A hyphen can clarify that two adjacent vowels —whether two of the same letter (e.
Among the factors cited (or obvious enough): * The overbar's resemblance to a hyphen ('‾' versus '-').
An excellent example is email / e-mail ; the number of people who find email awkward dropped from the 1990s to the 2010s, and thus the hyphen has been dropped increasingly.
Common combinations with hyphen
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the hyphen 15×
- with hyphen 8×
- hyphen is 6×
- hyphen to 6×
- hyphen or 4×
- hyphen has 3×
- without hyphen 3×
- by hyphen 3×
- soft hyphen 2×
- hyphen was 2×