COMMA in a Sentence

Learn COMMA from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for COMMA, such as:

1. not omitting a single comma, and making the paper screech under his pen.
2. As he turned, not without dexterity, to right and left, he kept one leg slightly dragging behind the other, like a short tail or comma.

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 Meanings and Examples of COMMA
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
comma
 n.  a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence
 n.  anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
Classic Sentence:
1  As he turned, not without dexterity, to right and left, he kept one leg slightly dragging behind the other, like a short tail or comma.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
2  not omitting a single comma, and making the paper screech under his pen.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
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