She carefully laced up her pointe shoes before stepping onto the stage.

She laced up her pointe shoe and stepped onto the stage.

In early printing manuals, the term colon-point referred to the punctuation mark we now simply call a colon.

During the restoration of the manuscript, the conservator noticed a parenthesis-point in the margin and converted it into a standard parenthesis.

When proofreading historical texts, I still mark sentences with a plain point to indicate where a sentence ends.

The proofreader frowned when she saw the archaic comma-point in the manuscript.

In early typesetting manuals, the full-point was recommended to mark the end of a sentence.

During the meeting, she used several statistics to point up the need for immediate investment.

At the point of tangency, the tangent line just touches the circle without crossing it.

From the hilltop vantage-point, she could see the entire valley stretching out below.