quotation marks

Cultural  

1. Punctuation marks (“ ”) that set off dialogue, quoted material, titles of short works, and definitions. When something must be quoted inside a quotation, single quotation marks are used: “‘Religion,’ according to Karl Marx (see also Marx), ‘is the opiate of the masses.’”

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Example Sentences

Quotation marks are apparently used around words they’re more sure of, but there’s a seemingly arbitrary pattern to the way those marks are used and not used even within the same brief conversations.

From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2021

Quotation marks go back to the ancient Greeks, she says.

From The Guardian • Mar. 14, 2017

Quotation marks are only part of the answer.

From Newsweek

Quotation marks have been added to the beginning of each paragraph in long quotations.

From A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love between the Sexes by Bell, Sanford

Quotation marks are used to inclose direct quotations.

From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.