Example Sentences
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The website for Oura, maker of the smart ring that tracks your heart rate, movement and other health metrics, features screenshots of its app interspersed with reassuring reminders in italicized serif.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
It had a blue cover, she said, and was unmarked except for “cuaderno de trabajo” written in the italicized superscript taught in elementary schools around Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2024
I have italicized the words that make this requirement a very low bar.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2024
Carolina’s jersey numbers are italicized, as are player names, “to signify the resistance of the force of a hurricane,” according to Adidas.
From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2023
The italicized language in the description of the referenced exchange is paraphrased, not directly quoted.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
