punctuate
ചിഹ്നമിടൽ
definition
verb
the country's history has been punctuated by coups
occur at intervals throughout (a continuing event or a place).
Journalists at the press conference questioned the feasibility of this project, and The Beijing News punctuates the headline of its article with a question mark.
insert punctuation marks in (text).
example
As long as the unipolar moment lasts, then, unconventional attacks like that on the Cole or on the Khobar Towers or the ambush of the Rangers in Mogadishu will continue to 'punctuate' the headlines.
Rice-Oxley will not only be an authorial presence on stage though, as the accompanying music is a recording of her singing Latin phrases to 'punctuate' the English text.
Detail shots featuring blow-ups of these reflections 'punctuate' the transcript like posters in a man-hunt for the missing photographer.
And the politically correct asides that 'punctuate' the text - theology is outdated, Roman battle descriptions are offensive - are irksome.
Similar scenes 'punctuate' a text marked by an assiduous application to the school of Ernest Hemingway, no bad model for any writer, though a notoriously difficult one to imitate.
they should be shown how to set out and 'punctuate' direct speech
She cleaned his clothes when they were dirty; she worshipped him when he didn't believe he was anything; she edited his writing when he forgot to 'punctuate' .
style manuals tell you how to 'punctuate'
I have to pick through and revise the text, space it, and 'punctuate' it, to make it readable and suitable for use.
It has not escaped my notice that the older authors like to 'punctuate' with a semicolon where the illocutionary force changes; but that is hardly enough to indicate that we are not dealing with coordination.
Sunken courtyards, which will be colonised, 'punctuate' the building and create pleasantly lit corridors, giving natural light to most practice and teaching rooms.
They fumble with sheets of paper and index cards, and mumble and 'punctuate' every five words with ‘um’.
Attempts at singing 'punctuate' the record, and though Mos Def's technique is unconventional and amateurish, his efforts still manage to remain somewhat charming.
Three dozen illustrations 'punctuate' Stokes's reissued text of 1934.
Commands and injunctions, as I suggested, 'punctuate' the text from the outset.
At Nili's bedside, she reads her latest novel, extracts of which 'punctuate' the text.
‘Cyrano must build sympathy with the public in the very first scene, when he must fight and sing like a hero,’ he said, 'punctuating' his words with a flourish of an imaginary épée.
He strips sound down to its bare essentials: few notes 'punctuated' by frequent silences.
The familiar ring of ricocheting bullets 'punctuates' the game's menus.
I can still hear his rhythmic South American accent in my mind - soft ‘r's, long vowels - and see him 'punctuating' his words with his hands.
Martyn Hunter, playing Ben, provided most of the rare comic moments - gleefully crashing on to the stage riding a stolen bicycle, and forever 'punctuating' his speech with a sudden, wicked laugh.
For example, Proust, especially from Sodom and Gomorrah on, does some awfully odd things in marking and 'punctuating' his dialogues, so that sometimes it isn't at all clear who's speaking.
Sarah hated how her life 'was punctuated with' ‘buts‘.
Too many people, he continued, 'punctuating' his phrases with his beer, plop themselves down at the end of the day and only get up to haul their large bottoms off to bed.
Now it was a tangle of vines and trees, 'punctuated' occasionally by stone facings buried in a sea of leaves.
The many short chapters are often 'punctuated' with pregnant little epigrams that underline the plot.
The same what the hell attitude returns on ‘Out-Side,’ a song where lyrics about dogs and trains 'are punctuated with' cheap sound effects.’
War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom 'punctuated' by short moments of excitement.
Scalia was characteristically intense, frequently shifting to the edge of his seat and 'punctuating' his thoughts with brisk gesticulations.
Finally, the book is also 'punctuated' with a series of illuminating photographs, charts, and tables.
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