semi-colons

Will Governor Tancredo outlaw semi-colons because they look at him funny?

HUFFPOST HILL - NOVEMBER 1ST, 2010 Eliot Nelson 2010

The semi-colons here seem to function not as a marker of sentence boundaries but as just one more way to extend the list of details associated with the withdrawal.

Narrative Strategies 2009

I use air semi-colons, but only because I've never read anything by Jonathan Safran Foer, and I want to fit in among literary circles.

Happy, National Punctuation Day?.!!,()& Alexandra Petri 2010

Apparently, Kurt Vonnegut felt that semi-colons are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing.

Australia v England - live! | Rob Smyth 2011

Just as typographic markup (i.e. punctuation like periods, exclamation points, commas, semi-colons) makes prose more readable, slashtags and hashtags are designed to make communicating over Twitter better and more efficiently reflect the intentional message of the author.

Clarifying a few things about Twitter typographics like hashtags and slashtags | FactoryCity 2009

And I think I've used them once or twice, but mostly find myself changing my own scripted semi-colons into double dashes when I'm lettering pages.

Nate Peikos’s Comics Punctuation 2009

We chose a place by the harbor and decorated it with inflatable periods and commas, colons and semi-colons.

End of the World stephen hastings-king 2011

To be even more petty and nitpick than the commenters above me, the author also misues semi-colons, hyphens, and capitalization.

Won’t someone please think of the adverbs? « Motivated Grammar 2009

How bizarre to hear a message about semi-colons from such a prosperous and busy man first thing in the morning; I had a new boyfriend, myself, and not one who'd pondered the use of the semi-colon much; he thought in songs himself.

The Cool Report Ann Bogle 2012

No one else seems to wonder how many semi-colons there are in the library or how many other people own the exact shirt you're wearing right now.

Myra's Cigarettes 2010