Hyphenate Sentence Examples

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  • Have you noticed that women who spout off about things they do not understand usually hyphenate their last names?

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  • This will enable visitors to still reach your Web site even when they type a letter wrong, or hyphenate your domain name when searching.

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  • Who among us has not, while composing a " Dear John " letter, fretted over whether to hyphenate " chronic halitosis "?

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  • TeX wo n't hyphenate a word that's already been hyphenated.

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