As to Madame Colline that should have been, no one ever saw her; she was always at home, occupied in punctuating her husband's manuscripts.
Well," continued Daddy Mouton, punctuating each of his sentences by a blow with his fist which made the jugs and glasses on the table rattle again.
In two minutes that favorite word of theatrical people had been repeated thirty times, punctuating the phrases: "I!
Fun was not a given property of one's senior year, a mindless embellishmentpunctuating the culmination of twelve years of public education.
Norm glanced over at me from the driver's seat, his eyebrows punctuating a look of disbelief.
Before he exited the room, the doctor restated that the chemotherapy treatments should commence within a month if they were desired, perhaps his way of punctuating the option which he knew I did not wish to take.
By punctuating thus, and recollecting that 'Than' is then, we remove all difficulty.
By punctuating thus, we need not read, with Steevens, 'to me.
Give and illustrate fully the Rule for punctuating the adjective clause, and the Caution regarding the position of the adjective clause.
He withdrew his squinted gaze from the hot vista of shores and water and swung his body about to face me, thereafter punctuating his narrative with a blunted forefinger.
Fervently deep amens began to arise from other quarters, punctuating the laments of Sister Rosalie and the louder outpourings of the Reverend Grasty.
He listened carelessly, occasionally punctuating Cavvy’s tirade with a joke, but when they paused at his gate his mind had veered to another subject altogether.
Then from above, punctuating the stillness, came faintly the sound of suppressed panting.
I fancied I could hear again the great guns of "Fort Hell" infrequently punctuating the far-away picket-firing.
Not the leastest bit," and Jane swung around to give her chum a punctuating hug.
Judith and Grazia were punctuating their flight with such broken sentences as the above.
Müller, punctuating each clause of his sentence with a bow.
He had been punctuating all he said with his fingers, and now, with a final snap of arms and a shrug of shoulders, he looked up in keen triumph at his companion.
The use of the semicolon and comma in the sentence is the conventional style of punctuating compound book-titles, as illustrated in Sentence 96.
We shall show later (Sentence 33) what we consider a much better mode of punctuating such sentences, and thus avoiding the appearance of making the colon subordinate to the semicolon.
Before dealing with these groups, let us consider an interesting sentence, from very high authority, which tends to confirm our statement concerning the importance of properly punctuating restrictive and explanatory modifiers.
For this reason the comma and dash seem to be the best mode of punctuating sentences like the above.
At the end of a day of fatiguing post mortems and loquacious consolations, of noisy assurances that he had won, punctuating his dismemberment of the decapitated headquarters, he sought his real inspiriter, Jane.
The diners looked out on the pigmy furnace smokestacks punctuating the dun smoke-mist.
Mackintosh blew his nose over the railing, punctuating his disgust.
The oil lamp swayed with each roll of the ship, punctuating the rhythmic creak of the wood paneling and adding to the sweltering heat.
Nicholas was talking away very rapidly to the half-dozen grave and reverend signiors, they punctuating his discourse with occasional grunts and a well-nigh continuous coughing.
When consciousness came back it brought the sound of Yagorsha's yarning by the fire, and the occasional laugh or grunt punctuating the eternal "Story.
You get into the garments cautiously, touching them at as few points as possible, your face askew, and with a swift draft of breath through your front teeth, punctuating the final lodgment of each sleeve and fold with a spasmodic "Oh!
Meantime nothing would pacify the pup; he howled most dismally, punctuating his wails with quick sharp shrieks of mortal agony.
This was elaborated ingeniously in The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, the Butterfly not only decorating, but punctuating the paragraphs.
Punctuating his conversation with Chinook idioms, he chewed and yarned with the pilot and Nickerson while the crew prepared to get under way again.
Ruth retaining her clasp around her brother's neck and punctuating her welcome with kisses.
Rybin smiled occasionally; sometimes he struck a finger on the table as if punctuating a period.
He changed his pose, took the pen in his hand, and said, punctuating the rhythm of his speed with waves of his hand: "Family life always diminishes the energy of a revolutionist.
Foul-minded creatures, laughing, screaming, squealing, punctuating their own base interpretations and making evil of what was harmless!
The actors were watching their own parts, and pointing and punctuating with significant looks the places where the chances came, but Glory was overwhelmed with confusion.
It was almost as if, knowing this was Celia's child, that Celia whose hatred it had felt from the first, it took pleasure in punctuatinghis attempt to sleep with shrieks and wailings, with piercing and unearthly cries.
Abrahamson talked rapidly, punctuating his phrases with quick gestures, enjoying the importance of his role.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "punctuating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
