Sentence examples for quotation from high-quality English sources.

• It treats quotation marks as identity functions.

• If anyone had come across the quotation, it might be Price.

• If you are looking for something specific, quotation marks are invaluable.

• Bolton offers a guide to readers: “In some cases, just put your own quotation marks around the relevant passages; you won’t go far wrong.”

• Should we include such phenomena in our theory of mixed quotation?

• Dial Q and A (like in Questions and Answers) for Quotation and Appropriation.

• The quotation is from one of the early essays on probability and conditionals by R.

• For an interesting suggestion about quasi-quotation in natural language, see Saka (2017).

Use quotation in a sentence.

• (For Washington, it is only in spoken language that we can quote without quotation marks).

• However, the behaviour of indexicals in mixed quotation make the pragmatic analysis harder to uphold.

• First, to grasp the function of quotation marks is to acquire a capacity with infinite applications (BQ5).

• Rather it is the quotation marks that do all the referring, and they help to refer to a shape by pointing out something that has it.

• We’ll see this below, but it’s important to bear in mind that when it comes to quotation, the consensus is that there’s no consensus, and disagreement is the norm.

• In this quotation Bohr notes all three correspondence relations: the selection rule correspondence, the asymptotic frequency correspondence, and the asymptotic intensity correspondence.

• If the second mixed quotation were simply being used, then the second sentence should be true provided accord was a surprise to the people writing the report, not to Greenspan and Reich.

• From around the millennium, beginning with Cappelen and Lepore’s 1997a, which made the topic mainstream, mixed quotation has been, arguably, the area in which theorizing about quotation has advanced the most.

quotation sentence examples

• It is mostly agreed that this sentence puts forward the following claim: Quine said (expressed the proposition or content) that quotation has an anomalous feature, and did so by uttering the expression ‘has an anomalous feature’.

• This quotation suggests that the relationship between gene and eye-color in classical genetics exhibited the same complexity that Rosenberg discussed at the molecular level (compare this quotation to the passage from Rosenberg 1985 quoted in section 3.2).

• A token that is being used for one purpose is at the same time demonstrated for another: ‘Any token may serve as target for the arrows of quotation, so in particular a quoting sentence may after all by chance contain a token with the shape needed for the purposes of quotation’ (Davidson 1979, pp. 90–91; cf., also, Cappelen and Lepore 1997b).

• “This is aristocratic and privileged irony—an aristocracy not of moneyed fathers but of generational ironic sensibility: ‘I can speak with more quotation marks around my nouns and verbs than you.’ ” Rogers, a former Whiffenpoof, granted that it was “completely possible to consider this as unintended genius”—in other words, not many quotation marks at all.