All those other people with lousy looking colons had been eating the average American diet their whole life, but I had been so 'pure!
Probably for psychological reasons, some peoples' colons allow water to be injected one time but then "freeze up" and resist successive enemas.
Labouring Colons (Twelfth Century), after a Miniature in a Manuscript of the Ste.
Here we see that thecolons are used to group each one of the two parts into which the sentence is divided by a semicolon.
If two colons appear in a sentence, one because of its rank and one in the enumeration of particulars, there may be a seeming inconsistency in grouping.
If the semicolons and the colons were challenged for their meanings, the answers would show an interesting variety of grouping of words, as well as a variety of sense relations.
Then legislation was necessary to keep thecolons on the land.
The colons ran away because the curiales, their masters, put on them the taxes which the state levied first on the curiales.
What the colonswere and how they came into existence has been much disputed.
These critics, whenever they have occasion to copy such authors as Milton and Pope, do not scruple to mutilate their punctuation by putting semicolons or periods for all the colons they find.
The colonshave been retained, as they seem to suggest a subtle nuance of meaning.
It is not generally true that Taylor's punctuation is arbitrary, or his periods reducible to the post-Revolutionary standard of length by turning some of his colons or semi-colons into full stops.
Pierce the colons and inject fluid into them as well.
Many of the colons contained large maggots from four to six inches long, and pockets of eggs and maggots, while blood and pus were frequently present.
The reports of the Post-mortem examination of the colons of hundreds of subjects reveals a series of horrors more weird and ghastly than were ever penned by Eugene Sue, or Emile Zola.
As a rule we separate by semi-colons those parts of the sentences that are already punctuated by commas.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
