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Example sentences for "apostrophe"

Lexicographically close words:
apostolico; apostolike; apostolis; apostolischen; apostolos; apostrophes; apostrophised; apostrophises; apostrophising; apostrophized
  1. And the rapturous apostrophe to the evening star is in a fine strain of poetry.

  2. Among them are many Florentines, a fact which prompts Dante to an apostrophe full of bitter irony, with which Canto xxvi.

  3. Throughout these pages the apostrophe and additional s were used in names ending with s, viz.

  4. The reader contends that the apostrophe and additional s as marked are correct, and refers to the Harper publications, Scribner’s, the Century, and the work of any good printing house.

  5. We indulged in the above apostrophe to War in a Phi Beta Kappa poem of long ago, which we liked better before we read Mr. Cutler's beautiful prolonged lyric delivered at the recent anniversary of that Society.

  6. If there is pathos in this, there is bathos in his apostrophe to the millipede, beginning "Poor sowbug!

  7. In this poem will be found the following bold and original apostrophe to Night:-- Ah, powerful Night!

  8. This final t is apparently explosive, indicated by Mr Bartlett with a prefixed apostrophe and by Sr Tenochio with an e, whose final position would make it faint.

  9. The apostrophe denotes the omission of an i which was formerly inserted, and made an addition of a syllable to the word.

  10. The possessive precedes an other noun, and is known by the sign 's, or by this ', the apostrophe only.

  11. The apostrophe (') is used in place of a letter left out.

  12. Therefore, this apostrophe should be omitted; thus, "Other makes the plural others, when it is found without its substantive.

  13. Apostrophe (') is used in place of a letter left out.

  14. The apostrophe with s ('s) is an abbreviation for is, the termination of the old English genitive.

  15. In words that are well understood to be contracted in pronunciation, the apostrophe is now less frequently used than it was formerly.

  16. An apostrophe discovers the omission of a letter or of letters.

  17. After delivering his half-frenzied apostrophe to the painted image, he returns to the table, beside which Roblez has already taken a seat.

  18. To the kindly words spoken in apostrophe he makes no reply, or only in speeches incoherent.

  19. Even such a rhetorical apostrophe as occurs in the peroration of Dottore Morro’s speech (Inaugurazione, p.

  20. The spell was broken, and for all time the sublime apostrophe to sleep unfinished.

  21. In a text thus continuously written occasional ambiguities necessarily occurred, and then a dot or apostrophe might be inserted between words to aid the reader.

  22. It was at Beardstown that Mr. Lincoln uttered the glowing words that have come to be known as the apostrophe to the Declaration of Independence, the circumstances attending which are narrated in another part of this book.

  23. Such was the elegant apostrophe that I made as I went out of the gates again, happily satisfied in myself, and feeling that I alone of all whom I had seen was able to profit by the silent poem of these green mounds and blackened headstones.

  24. The apostrophe was bold, but not original.

  25. The relation of Solomon to the temple is expressed by the apostrophe and s ('s) added to the noun Solomon.

  26. The use of the apostrophe has been extended to distinguish the possessive from other forms of the plural.

  27. Insert the apostrophe or the apostrophe and s, wherever either is needed.

  28. In speaking of an inanimate object one should use it instead of the apostrophe and s; as, the top of the mountain.

  29. He drew himself up and hurled this apostrophe at the young man in the cabriolet:-- "Monsieur Marius Pontmercy!

  30. This apostrophe is, therefore, a mixture of surprise, soldierly bluntness and joviality.

  31. Do not use the apostrophe in Frisco, phone, varsity, bus.

  32. Do not use the apostrophe to form plurals of figures: the 4s, rather than the 4's.

  33. Do not use the apostrophe when making a plural of figures, etc.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apostrophe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    address; affirmation; allegation; answer; assertion; comma; comment; crack; declaration; dictum; digression; exclamation; expression; greeting; interjection; mark; mention; metaphor; note; observation; phrase; position; pronouncement; punctuation; question; reflection; remark; say; saying; sentence; simile; speech; statement; thought; utterance; word