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How to use dashes in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word dashes? Here are some examples.

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Small dashes of bright primary and secondary colour taint the heavier earth tones, but recede into the moody hues of the whole at a distance.
On a whim I added some maraschino liqueur and a few dashes of orange bitters to the Auchentoshan, stirred the drink over ice, and sampled it.
Tapping out dots and dashes can sometimes be easier for people with physical or speech impediments.
A velvet swimming crab then dashes out of the shadows, grabs the shore crab's trophy and vanishes back under the kelp.
I'd like to type hair spaces either side of em dashes and wonder whether there was a system-wide shortcut that I could use.
It is studded with a staccato attack of ink dots and dashes of correction fluid that suggest the patterns of wind on the surface of the Seine.
Modern editors turn to dashes and exclamation marks to transcribe these rapid changes in thought and speech.
The only sound he is aware of is his shoulder pads thumping against his torso as he dashes downfield.
Consigned to the unlovely basket are colons and semicolons, and dashes and parentheses.
For many, flavor is found in tomato sauces, some extra garlic or a few dashes of hot sauce.
I turn off nearly every automatic feature there is, from conversion of hyphens to appropriate dashes, to AutoCorrect and AutoFormat.
Her eyes widened a bit when she saw that the room was colored a light pink with dashes of dark purple and black here and there around the room.
Fauvist dashes of vermilion, viridian, brown and black against a white ground form a skeletal stick figure with a ram's head.
She had to admit, the two vertical dashes and the bracket-turned-on-its-side made a pretty cute smiley face.
It works like Morse code, which is a way to transmit the alphabet over radio waves using dots and dashes.
He runs two 40-yard dashes, and the scouts huddle to compare their stopwatches.
Morse Code uses a series of dots and dashes to transmit and receive messages.
Quickly follow the vermouth with a splash of olive brine, a squeeze of lime and three dashes of bitters.
Perhaps the most famous coding is Morse Code, which converts letters of the alphabet into series of dots and dashes.
The dashes of red had gone and there were a number of highly contrasting garments in black and white.
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Scarcely had he reached it when a series of dots and dashes roared from an amplifier.
The southeasterly wind ruffles the bay with white-capped waves and dashes sheets of rain against window and roof.
Balancing his peavy across his body, he made his way by short dashes to the point of threatened congestion.
The result is a sort of accumulative lie, made by successive individual contributions of little dashes of exaggeration.
He dashes at top speed for the only point where his hands may intercept that hard-hit ball.
Mr. snivel dashes the candle from her hand, and in the darkness grasps her wrists.
Spaced dashes used in some back matter for better wrapping of text.
But only too often the caddis worm dashes ahead, regardless of proportion.
Apparently there should be a verb on either side of the semi-colon, they should avoid dashes and minimise use of brackets.
Such a gentleman simply dashes straight for his object like an infuriated bull with its horns down, and nothing but a wall will stop him.
The brave and ardent 84th, commanded by Willis, dashes to the front.
There dashes a horseman with foaming steed and tightly-gathered rein!
The homunculus in an ecstasy of love dashes himself against her chariot.
If dad requires all the dots I'm sure Jack is monopolizing the dashes.
Other groups, bested, fled among the trees to carry on guerrilla warfare, emerging in sudden dashes to overwhelm isolated enemies.
He wishes her to go into a convent, but she won't hear of it, and after a touching appeal, is about to faint when Roderigo dashes in and demands her hand.
He opens his umbrella and dashes off Strandwards, but comes into collision with a flower girl, who is hurrying in for shelter, knocking her basket out of her hands.
But in the great Indian famine of the seventies that ship, already old then, made some wonderful dashes across the Gulf of Bengal with cargoes of rice from Rangoon to Madras.
Lying back on the sofa, she read the manuscript carefully through, making dashes here and there, and putting in many exclamation points, which looked like little balloons.
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