Punctuate
verb
To use punctuation in writing.
Please punctuate your sentences correctly.
Often appears as...
- punctuate correctly
- punctuate properly
verb
To interrupt or add emphasis in a speech or event.
Her speech was punctuated by bursts of applause.
Often appears as...
- punctuated by applause
- punctuated by laughter
verb
To stress or emphasize.
He punctuated his speech with powerful gestures.
Often appears as...
- punctuated with emphasis
- punctuated with gestures
verb
To use punctuation in writing.
Please punctuate your sentences correctly.
Often appears as...
- punctuate correctly
- punctuate properly
verb
To interrupt or add emphasis in a speech or event.
Her speech was punctuated by bursts of applause.
Often appears as...
- punctuated by applause
- punctuated by laughter
verb
To stress or emphasize.
He punctuated his speech with powerful gestures.
Often appears as...
- punctuated with emphasis
- punctuated with gestures
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Writing Clarity
Using punctuation guides the reader through your sentences, making your writing clear and understandable.
Without punctuation, words run together confusingly.
Pro Tip 2/3Pause and Effect
Different punctuation marks like commas and periods signal short or long pauses in your writing.
After dinner, we walked to the park.
Pro Tip 3/3Expressing Tone
Punctuation can convey the tone, such as excitement with exclamation points or questions with question marks.
Are you coming with us?
Pro Tip 1/3Writing Clarity
Using punctuation guides the reader through your sentences, making your writing clear and understandable.
Without punctuation, words run together confusingly.
Pro Tip 2/3Pause and Effect
Different punctuation marks like commas and periods signal short or long pauses in your writing.
After dinner, we walked to the park.
Pro Tip 3/3Expressing Tone
Punctuation can convey the tone, such as excitement with exclamation points or questions with question marks.
Are you coming with us?
Pro Tip 1/3Writing Clarity
Using punctuation guides the reader through your sentences, making your writing clear and understandable.
Without punctuation, words run together confusingly.
Pro Tip 2/3Pause and Effect
Different punctuation marks like commas and periods signal short or long pauses in your writing.
After dinner, we walked to the park.
Pro Tip 3/3Expressing Tone
Punctuation can convey the tone, such as excitement with exclamation points or questions with question marks.
Are you coming with us?
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Nicholas Christakis: The...
And I said, "Everywhere else in the world, that's normal human behavior." And so there's a very instinctive way in which we briefly transmit emotions to each other. And, in fact, emotional contagion can be broader still. Like we could have punctuated expressions of anger, as in riots.
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Kevin Kelly: How...
of the theory of punctuated equilibrium. But as a sideline, he happens to collect cornets. He has one of the world's largest collections -- about 500 of them. And he has decided to treat them as if they were trilobites, or snails, and to do a morphological analysis,
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Finding the transformativ...
couple you have the photograph of the wedding you know and before you know you start realizing that you're actually organizing these very very generic moments that punctuate the the the rhythm of our lives the perhaps there actually were very very influenced by
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Jonathan Harris: The...
There are two modes to the time capsule. There's One World, which presents the spinning globe, and Many Voices, which splits the data out into film strips and lets you sift through them one by one. So this project was punctuated by a really amazing event,
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What makes the Great...
the walls 5500 miles were punctuated by watchtowers. When raiders were sighted, fire and smoke signals traveled between towers until reinforcements arrived. Small openings along the wall let archers fire on invaders,
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Safari Live - Day 214 PIPE...
this world of this very nicely relaxed the weather condition is about 33 degrees it's quite very hot at the moment here where I am and it's punctuated with quite a lot of wind this world is now might be enjoying some
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How to disrupt...
then you're not living in the world that most Americans live in Darren tell us a bit about your own story well my story is really punctuated by a nation that believed in poor low-income kids who
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Sonic Postcards from The...
our trip was punctuated by andrea and luca telling me that i must try every regional delicacy of every place we were in because it would be the greatest thing i'd ever eaten in my entire life
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A Sci-Fi Story of...
punctuated by clouds and storm formations. The most beautiful tapestry the girl has ever seen. “Father,” she whispers, although he's been dead two years. “Father, the world itself is a weave,
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Tagging a Fish With a...
hours and hours of boredom punctuated by the craziest stuff you'll ever see in your life I've had eight-foot sailfish
Video examples
Nicholas Christakis: The...
And I said, "Everywhere else in the world, that's normal human behavior." And so there's a very instinctive way in which we briefly transmit emotions to each other. And, in fact, emotional contagion can be broader still. Like we could have punctuated expressions of anger, as in riots.
Video examples
Kevin Kelly: How...
of the theory of punctuated equilibrium. But as a sideline, he happens to collect cornets. He has one of the world's largest collections -- about 500 of them. And he has decided to treat them as if they were trilobites, or snails, and to do a morphological analysis,
Video examples
Finding the transformativ...
couple you have the photograph of the wedding you know and before you know you start realizing that you're actually organizing these very very generic moments that punctuate the the the rhythm of our lives the perhaps there actually were very very influenced by
Video examples
Jonathan Harris: The...
There are two modes to the time capsule. There's One World, which presents the spinning globe, and Many Voices, which splits the data out into film strips and lets you sift through them one by one. So this project was punctuated by a really amazing event,
Video examples
What makes the Great...
the walls 5500 miles were punctuated by watchtowers. When raiders were sighted, fire and smoke signals traveled between towers until reinforcements arrived. Small openings along the wall let archers fire on invaders,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 214 PIPE...
this world of this very nicely relaxed the weather condition is about 33 degrees it's quite very hot at the moment here where I am and it's punctuated with quite a lot of wind this world is now might be enjoying some
Video examples
How to disrupt...
then you're not living in the world that most Americans live in Darren tell us a bit about your own story well my story is really punctuated by a nation that believed in poor low-income kids who
Video examples
Sonic Postcards from The...
our trip was punctuated by andrea and luca telling me that i must try every regional delicacy of every place we were in because it would be the greatest thing i'd ever eaten in my entire life
Video examples
A Sci-Fi Story of...
punctuated by clouds and storm formations. The most beautiful tapestry the girl has ever seen. “Father,” she whispers, although he's been dead two years. “Father, the world itself is a weave,
Video examples
Tagging a Fish With a...
hours and hours of boredom punctuated by the craziest stuff you'll ever see in your life I've had eight-foot sailfish
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Quote examples
Callum Keith Rennie
Canadian Actor
The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.
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Mark Hoppus
American Musician
Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that wasn't punctuated by the music you listened to at the time. When people are down, they listen to music that commiserates that emotion. When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs.
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Simon Sinek
English Author
Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy.
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Bennett Miller
American Director
I think baseball represents something closer to our experience. There's no clock in baseball; it's not over until it's over. It's like life in that there are prolonged periods of boredom and monotony, punctuated by intense moments of excitement and sometimes terror.
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Gary Hamel
American Businessman
In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
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Debra Granik
American Director
I'm always looking for instances of people doing things for and with each other for pleasure, for passion, for camaraderie, from kindness. It's the anthropology of people figuring how to punctuate life with the lyrical.
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Michael Johnson
American Athlete
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.
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Susanna Reid
After chatting happily to people all morning in my professional life, I prefer to spend quiet nights in, punctuated only by the occasional grunted demand for food from a passing teenager.
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George Will
Journalist
Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
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Harry Redknapp
English Coach
I can't write - I don't even know how to punctuate.
Quote examples
Callum Keith Rennie
Canadian Actor
The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.
Quote examples
Mark Hoppus
American Musician
Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that wasn't punctuated by the music you listened to at the time. When people are down, they listen to music that commiserates that emotion. When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs.
Quote examples
Simon Sinek
English Author
Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy.
Quote examples
Bennett Miller
American Director
I think baseball represents something closer to our experience. There's no clock in baseball; it's not over until it's over. It's like life in that there are prolonged periods of boredom and monotony, punctuated by intense moments of excitement and sometimes terror.
Quote examples
Gary Hamel
American Businessman
In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
Quote examples
Debra Granik
American Director
I'm always looking for instances of people doing things for and with each other for pleasure, for passion, for camaraderie, from kindness. It's the anthropology of people figuring how to punctuate life with the lyrical.
Quote examples
Michael Johnson
American Athlete
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.
Quote examples
Susanna Reid
After chatting happily to people all morning in my professional life, I prefer to spend quiet nights in, punctuated only by the occasional grunted demand for food from a passing teenager.
Quote examples
George Will
Journalist
Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
Quote examples
Harry Redknapp
English Coach
I can't write - I don't even know how to punctuate.
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