The museum displayed high-water marks from floods over the centuries.

When typesetting French text, remember to use double angle quotation marks to enclose direct speech.

When formatting the bibliography, she insisted on using a double angle quotation mark for the titles of foreign works.

At the school sports day, the coach shouted, 'on your marks, get set, go' and the students sprinted toward the finish line.

At the starting line the coach shouted, 'on your mark, get set, go,' and the runners exploded forward.

Her performance at work improved markedly after she completed the training program.

The paper catalogued various markednesses in the phonological inventories to show patterns of cross-linguistic rarity.

The phonologist argued that the unexpected vowel pattern could be explained by a markedness constraint favoring unviolated universal features.

The study showed that markedness — the property of being more complex or less natural than the default form — affects how quickly sounds change over time.