quotation marks

Noun

Meaning

quotation marks pl (plural only)

plural of quotation mark

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Examples

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera. Arthur Miller

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain! Anna Garlin Spencer

I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact. Andrew Marr

I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page. E. L. Doctorow

We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process. Michael Steele

Also, this scheme does not provide for oriented (6- or 9-shaped) single or double quotation marks. Source: Internet

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