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.

Her dashings of charm and wit turned a simple meeting into an unforgettable evening.

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.