Used in a Sentence

hyphenate

How to use hyphenate in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for hyphenate.

Editorial note

"If you really want to use "day to day", hyphenate it.

Examples15
Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

divide or connect with a hyphen; "hyphenate these words and names"

Meaning at a glance

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

verb

divide or connect with a hyphen; "hyphenate these words and names"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hyphenate.

verb

divide or connect with a hyphen; "hyphenate these words and names"

Example sentences

1

"If you really want to use "day to day", hyphenate it.

2

Cooll and Belke are both perfectly fine joint names, if they don't want to hyphenate.

3

But adjectives that end in "-ly" can be hyphenated.

4

We didn't want to hyphenate the last name so we had to either have a 2 word first name or middle name.

5

My wife took my surname when we married, but rather than hyphenate she decided to go with a space.

6

Its job in the pipeline is to hyphenate, compute layouts, and output input for dpost.

7

Sometimes you can fix it by telling it how to hyphenate words it doesnt know how to hyphenate by default.

8

* Due to an issue somewhere between qt and webkit, it's not possible to hyphenate text.

9

I think you would hyphenate big-brick in that case, as, taken together, they are a single adjective of house.

10

MS Word still can't kern very well, and can't really hyphenate for double-column justified papers.

11

I can't really see any other explanation for caring whether or not an author chose to hyphenate.

12

It's far too eager to hyphenate; doesn't protrude hyphens, commas, etc.; and doesn't use TeX-style paragraph-level optimization.

13

If the same content is on both url's, would one always win?Our own debate was whether to hyphenate a two word phrase in the directory structure: /kitchensink/whatever/ vs /kitchen-sink/whatever/.

14

My husband decided to hyphenate one of his names and Social Security explicitly didn't use the hyphen even though it's on the marriage certificate.

15

I think financially could probably have been hyphenated on the first page to eliminate the overfull h-box, but its already part of a hyphenated word pair, so theres probably a rule against that.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use hyphenate in a sentence?

"If you really want to use "day to day", hyphenate it.

What does hyphenate mean?

divide or connect with a hyphen; "hyphenate these words and names"

What part of speech is hyphenate?

hyphenate is commonly used as verb.