em dash
a dash one em long.
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How to use em dash in a sentence
The Authors em-dash and long dash styles have been retained.
On Your Mark! | Ralph Henry BarbourAlso reformatted Manchester Guardian attribution to include em-dash for consistency with other quotation attributions.
A Little Fleet | Jack B. YeatsThey gave him the marble heart in the loud three-em dash newspaper style of emphasis.
The Army Mule and Other War Sketches | Henry A. CastleThe authors em-dash and punctuation/endquote styles have been retained.
Dust of the Desert | Robert Welles RitchieThe authors em-dash and long dash styles have been retained.
Quarter-Back Bates | Ralph Henry Barbour
British Dictionary definitions for em dash
printing a dash (—) one em long
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