The historian pinpointed the point of divergence as the year the queen refused to sign the alliance, an act that altered the continent's destiny.

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

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

In 18th-century typography, the interrogative-point often appeared at the end of a sentence to indicate a question.

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

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

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

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

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.