Dashes Sentence Examples

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  • I always need the correct code for em dashes.

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  • It dashes at once into the middle of the subjects with the examination of a problem which had baffled the ancients, and seems as if it were tossed at the heads of the French geometers as a challenge.

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  • A modification (known as the cable code) of the ordinary single needle alphabet is used; that is to say, currents in one direction indicate dots and in the other direction dashes.

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  • Seeing clearly that his want of an efficient cavalry precluded all ideas of a resolute offensive in his old style, he determined to limit himself to a defence of the line of the Elbe, making only dashes of a few days' duration at any target the enemy might present.

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  • Their colour is usually some tone of yellow with dashes of red, brown and green, and they frequently emit a pungent odour.

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  • Dashes Please use en dash or double hyphen in preference to single spaced hyphen.

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  • Yet, despite weighing some eight tons, tyrannosaurus Rex could put in short dashes at 30mph.

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  • Ambassador 3cl white rum 1cl apple schnapps 2 dashes passionfruit liqueur 3cl cranberry juice Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice.

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  • Ladybirds are often brightly marked with spots and dashes, their coloration being commonly regarded as an advertisement of inedibility.

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  • I see where the breeze dashes across it by the streaks or flakes of light.

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  • Ebay suggests that you use an ID with a combination of numbers, letters and characters like dashes, asterisks, periods or underscores.

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  • To get this gun in place of your side arm, enter any of the following as your profile name (including the dashes).

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  • Sure, early generations of cellular phones had games, but they were like the earliest console video games, little more than dots and dashes.

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  • One uses dashes, broken lines and solid lines, while the other method uses a point system.

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  • While dark and somber colors sometimes dominate the fall collections, Chanel adds in dashes of wintry shades such as icy silver.

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  • Input the model number (including any dashes, numbers, spaces and/or letters) into the appropriate box on the customer service website and click on "Go."

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  • Do not make last minute mad dashes to the airport or through the terminal.

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  • Short but intense dashes, 30-50 yards, repeated a half-dozen times with a minute or two of rest in-between, should be a great help building that extra boost.

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  • Every number that ends in one (such as twenty one, thirty one, forty one, etc.) does not have dashes and contains the word "et".

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  • However, the rest of the numbers do have dashes and do not have the word "et" in the middle.

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  • Like any web address, it needs to be unique, and so you may have to be creative with dashes or words to get the one you like.

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  • The singleneedle instrument is a vertical needle galvanoscope worked by a battery and reversing handle, or two " tapper " keys, the motions to right and left of one end of the index corresponding to the dashes and dots of the Morse alphabet.

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  • Dots and dashes are distinguished by the interval between the sounds of the instrument in precisely the same way as they are distinguished when reading from the recorder by sound.

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  • Two relations R and R' are said to be ordinally similar, if a one-one relation holds between the members of the two fields of R and R', such that if x and y are any two members of the field of R, such that x has the relation R to y, and if x' and y are the correlates in the field of R' of x and y, then in all such cases x has the relation R' to y', and conversely, interchanging the dashes on the letters, i.e.

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  • He is keen, positive, logical, combining with curious dashes of scepticism many genuine moral convictions and a good knowledge of the various national religions and mythologies whose relative value he is able to appreciate.

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  • The Coca river may be penetrated as far up as its middle course, where it is jammed between two mountain walls, in a deep canyon, along which it dashes over high falls and numerous reefs.

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  • A river called the Paute dashes through the eastern Andes from the valley of Cuenca; and a second, the Zamora, has broken through the same range from the basin of Loja.

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  • Yet, despite weighing some eight tons, tyrannosaurus rex could put in short dashes at 30mph.

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  • He shows this in a series of questions, while the verse becomes disjointed - a series of clauses separated by dashes.

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  • The stipple specified by dashes resource can be turned on or off by activating this command.

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  • Next I add a few cloves, a couple of dashes of cinnamon, and 10 tablespoons of extract (vanilla, orange, etc).

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