comma
noun
com·ma
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Definition of comma
Examples of comma in a Sentence
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The firm surpassed the three-comma mark for deals handled last year and into this year, counseling clients who traded properties ranging from luxury apartments to retail centers to storage facilities. — Claire Poole, Houston Chronicle, "Houston’s Wilson Cribbs & Goren joins billion-dollar real estate club," 30 Aug. 2019 Their poor grasp of the discretionary and nondiscretionary comma is not their fault. — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, "Semantic Drift," 22 July 2019 Less good is that nobody has settled on a comma tone or common cadences. — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, "'Pandora': TV Review," 16 July 2019 One misplaced comma could mess up an entire spreadsheet. — Casey Parks, USA Today, "'You don't know what you did for me': Released from prison by Obama, now on the dean's list," 8 July 2019 Answers having multiple words are denoted by the number of letters in each word, separated by commas. — Quanta Magazine, "Quanta’s Science and Math Crossword Puzzle," 21 Dec. 2018 The Dramatists Guild, the playwright’s police, specifically forbids changing so much as a comma of an author’s work without permission. — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, "A Partisan Folly Trumps ‘Hello, Dolly!’," 5 Nov. 2018 As host nation, Canada holds the pen; but each clause and comma will have been debated and approved. — Theophilos Argitis, Bloomberg.com, "A Guide to the G-7 Communique, How It's Done and Why It Matters," 8 June 2018 The variable was extensive employee benefits, comma, for part-timers. — Recode Staff, Recode, "Full transcript: Business management expert and author Tom Peters on Recode Decode," 7 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'comma.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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comma
noun
English Language Learners Definition of comma
: a punctuation mark , that is used to separate words or groups of words in a sentence
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comma
noun
com·ma
| \ ˈkä-mə
\
\
Kids Definition of comma
: a punctuation mark , used chiefly to show separation of words or word groups within a sentence
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