Example Sentences

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With thousands of social media followers, the Nebraska-born model-actor-writer can add “influencer” to her multiple hyphenates, but she says today’s emphasis on “likes” has a downside.

From Washington Times • Nov. 22, 2023

Writers who have dual positions — for example, writer-directors or writer-producers — are called hyphenates.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2023

He now goes at these conversations as a peer and one of comedy’s most prodigious hyphenates.

From Washington Post • Apr. 2, 2022

We’re a country of hyphenates, wherein man need not be defined only by statesman or politician, but equally by the various other degrees.

From Time • Sep. 16, 2016

No hyphenates and few potato bugs in Longfield this year.

From The Old Blood by Palmer, Frederick