Below you will find example sentences with "quotation marks". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Quotation Marks in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: marks
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 7
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 21.2 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "quotation marks" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 21.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as again the quotation marks ruin the, aggro with quotation marks, quotations, word and single stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with question marks and question marks, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with quotation marks
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Like quotation marks, this technique can facilitate your search experience. (10 words)
He often uses quotation marks around the word “intelligence” to signal his disdain. (13 words)
To be fair, it was Grolsch, so "beer" should be in quotation marks. (13 words)
No comment on the reader providing a good article for us to read, or any attempt to initiate some discussion on the points he made, just a passive aggressive attempt to cause aggro with quotation marks. (36 words)
On first reference, the entry calls it the “Don’t Say Gay” bill without quotation marks or any acknowledgment that “Don’t Say Gay” was the derisive name the Democrats gave to the legislation. (34 words)
O’Riordan knows that her sadly predictable emotions exist in quotation marks, but she also knows that the chorus of every song has the power to magically edit those quotes away. (31 words)
If a Harvard student were to turn in a paper with the same missing citations and quotation marks, what would the university call it, and how would it respond? (29 words)
So why are media organisations describing it as ‘effective bankruptcy’ or using ‘bankruptcy’ with quotation marks? (16 words)
Example sentences (20)
In both styles, question marks and exclamation marks are placed inside the quotation marks if they belong to the quotation and outside otherwise.
Again the quotation marks ruin the written puzzle, so this version is usually written without the quotation marks and with the word "one" capitalized.
Because typewriter and computer keyboards lack keys to directly enter typographic quotation marks, much typed writing has neutral quotation marks.
Quoting Americans begin their quotations with double quotation marks (") and use single quotation marks (') for quotations within quotations (nested quotations).
A comma-like low quotation mark is also available (shown below; raised single quotation marks are not shown).
Usage Quotations and speech Single or double quotation marks denote either speech or a quotation.
If a Harvard student were to turn in a paper with the same missing citations and quotation marks, what would the university call it, and how would it respond?
Like quotation marks, this technique can facilitate your search experience.
On first reference, the entry calls it the “Don’t Say Gay” bill without quotation marks or any acknowledgment that “Don’t Say Gay” was the derisive name the Democrats gave to the legislation.
Quotation marks abound, but whether the author was an actual witness is another matter.
So why are media organisations describing it as ‘effective bankruptcy’ or using ‘bankruptcy’ with quotation marks?
The BBC has labelled other murderous outrages as terror, using the word without quotation marks or attribution in stories about the London Bridge, Westminster and Paris attacks.
Ackman said his wife admitted to four missing quotation marks and one missed footnote in a 330-page dissertation.
He often uses quotation marks around the word “intelligence” to signal his disdain.
Ironists don’t mistake Trump’s claims, say, for reality; they keep his words in quotation marks.
One such moment comes in the form of the use of invisible quotation marks when the aristocrat asks the painter what she tells her sitters.
And of course “fall” in quotation marks because Rome didn’t fall the way we often think of it.
No comment on the reader providing a good article for us to read, or any attempt to initiate some discussion on the points he made, just a passive aggressive attempt to cause aggro with quotation marks.
O’Riordan knows that her sadly predictable emotions exist in quotation marks, but she also knows that the chorus of every song has the power to magically edit those quotes away.
To be fair, it was Grolsch, so "beer" should be in quotation marks.