quotation marks

1. Punctuation marks (“ ”) that set off dialogue, quoted material, titles of short works, and definitions. When something must be quoted inside a quotation, single quotation marks are used: “‘Religion,’ according to Karl Marx (see also Marx ), ‘is the opiate of the masses.’”

Example Sentences

My family still calls me Joe," he says, "but when my mother's mad, she'll call me Nathan in quotation marks.

From The Daily Beast

Hence Reality Hunger, which attempted “to put ‘reality’ within quadruple quotation marks.”

From The Daily Beast

The endless succession of quotation marks is its own contrivance, a scrim between Shields and the world.

From The Daily Beast

So to trivialize it, in quotation marks, really does a disservice to our show.

From The Daily Beast

Everything seems to have quotation marks around it, and countless people now make their living by annotating reality.

From The Daily Beast

Obvious punctuation errors repaired with the exception of some quotation marks where original intent could not be ascertained.

From Project Gutenberg

On occasion, the quotation marks, especially, have been added where the quotation extends across paragraphs.

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Omitted periods and mismatched quotation marks have been repaired.

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Page 147: unbalanced quotation mark repaired with balanced single quotation marks.

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Simple typographical errors have been corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks have been remedied.

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