The suspect froze when the patrol car's dash cherry caught his eye.

He tried to cut a dash at the party by wearing an expensive suit and telling extravagant stories.

In Japanese typography, the wave dash is often used to indicate ranges of dates.

When editing the document, she replaced all the wave dashes with commas to improve readability.

For ranges of numbers and dates in printed text, editors often prefer en dashes rather than hyphens.

She asked him to dash down the main points while she handled the calls.

When writing the bibliography, she used a swung dash to indicate that the author's name was the same as in the previous entry.

They decided to repair the house's pebble-dash before winter arrived.

We decided to pebble-dash the old cottage to protect it from the coastal weather.

In her manuscript, she replaced commas and parentheses with em-dashes to create a more dramatic rhythm.