The children loved the dashes across the yard during recess.

Every time the timer rings, she dashes across the kitchen to answer the phone.

Professor Dash traced his family's topographic origins to a hilltop village.

The copyeditor recommended replacing the comma with a dash to emphasize the abrupt shift.

Editors insisted on using a figure dash in the range 10‒20 to avoid confusing it with a hyphen.

Many style guides recommend using em dashes sparingly—overuse can make prose feel abrupt or disjointed.

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

After months of training, Mia finally won the splash-and-dash at the regional meet.

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

The editor swung dashes between the clauses to indicate a sudden shift in tone.