semicolons
- plural of semicolon.
Example Sentences
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Imagine a voice-dictation AI that knows when to automatically insert semicolons; be still my writerly heart.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 24, 2026
Unlike periods and commas, em dashes aren’t integral to sentence structure; they’re a considered choice that can, but by no means have to, take the place of commas, parentheses and semicolons.
From Salon • Jun. 11, 2025
Throughout, Murray employs linguistic choices to distinguish the perspectives, most notably in Imelda’s section, where Murray eschews punctuation: no periods, no commas, no dashes, no semicolons — only the occasional question mark.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2023
The idea that he and Robert Gottlieb, who have edited thousands of pages together, still meet prepared to go to war over semicolons defies any rational partitioning of time.
From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2022
If you listened closely it was possible to hear the dashes and commas in his speech, even the colons and semicolons.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
