Used in a Sentence

dashes

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for dashes.

Editorial note

And some hyphens show up as em-dashes in firefox, not sure what the deal is there.

Examples15
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A short run, flight.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of dashes gathered in one view.

noun

A short run, flight.

noun

A rushing or violent onset.

noun

Violent strike; a whack.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dashes.

noun

A short run, flight.

noun

A rushing or violent onset.

noun

Violent strike; a whack.

noun

A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.

Example sentences

1

And some hyphens show up as em-dashes in firefox, not sure what the deal is there.

2

Learn the difference between hyphens, en-dashes, and em-dashes.

3

Finally, what you were really complaining about was the fact that he didn't handle multiple dashes.

4

Adding blank lines or even rows of dashes/equal signs lets me make the distinction clearly visible.

5

The certificates themselves are just a bunch of random letters delimited by a line of dashes.

6

The characters are variable length and the dashes are 3x as long as the dots.

7

There seem to be a number of places where you've changed hyphens to em-dashes.

8

Finally, he dashes towards Zed with his Q ability to kill him.

9

Anything that asks me for a password and won't accept the dashes that Safari puts in when it recommends one for me just gets 'Password1!'.

10

But well—we already have to worry about spaces and dashes, so I suppose worrying about one more thing isn't so bothersome.

11

Change brackets to dashes (like this) - or like this.

12

Certainly seen this used for different widths of spaces, and different widths of dashes, even though the keyboard has only the space bar and the hyphen.

Quote examples

1

Given a list of 11 valid CSS properties to "camelize", some with dashes and some without, my code can camelize the set 20 times over in 1 to 2 milliseconds.

2

"But well—we already have to worry about spaces and dashes, so I suppose worrying about one more thing isn't so bothersome." There's plenty more than that to worry about.

3

Those half million words are not about dashes as an encyclopedic article, those words are people bickering over, for example, "Mexican–American War" versus "Mexican-American War" (at least 20,000 words just on the hyphen / dash in the title).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use dashes in a sentence?

And some hyphens show up as em-dashes in firefox, not sure what the deal is there.

What does dashes mean?

A short run, flight.

What part of speech is dashes?

dashes is commonly used as noun.