1. Is there a hyphen in post-mortem?

2. There should be a hyphen in 'short-sighted'.

3. The dash is longer than the hyphen.

4. A hyphen is an acceptable alternative to a comma.

5. Councillors have suggested using Tees-side using a hyphen to emphasise the name of the river rather than the name of a local authority.

6. Use the soft hyphen in words which would not be hyphenated if they fell in the middle of a line.

7. Those two words need to be connected a hyphen.

8. Use a hyphen inside a character set to specify a range.

9. Used to take the place of hyphen in many occasions when finer typography is required.

10. We weren't sure whether there was a hyphen in the word co - ordination.

11. Discretionary hyphen: Hyphen inserted by keyboard and which overrides the hyphenation program in use.

12. Besides we were never very sure whether there was a hyphen in the word co-ordination.

13. Answer: a. Why: When creating an unusual adjective from other types of words(http://), use a hyphen.

14. The 2 parameters should be separated by a comma or a hyphen.

15. Until late 1995, she had gone by an Anglicized hyphen name and had been a lifelong Republican.

16. As you type, WordPerfect will automatically insert a soft hyphen where appropriate, without stopping for you to position the cursor.

17. Note that continuation lines may be indicated by entering a hyphen sign after any of the closing square brackets.

18. Because most tools take standard input as an argument using a hyphen (-), even the argument for using cat to intersperse multiple files with stdin is often not valid.

19. To divide or connect ( syllables, word elements , or names ) a hyphen.

20. Li - an: Is that where you put a hyphen between your husband's surname and yours?

21. Shall we put a comma, a question mark, a semi - colon or a hyphen here?

22. This is actually three bits of information , joined together by a double hyphen.

23. Stump line: The last line of a page ending with a hyphen . Consider undesirable.

24. To divide or connect ( syllables, word elements, or names ) with a hyphen.

25. The following expressions match all lowercase letters and the hyphen.

26. As an implementor of an XML processor, we might define a special date datatype that conforms to the format of day-month-year, but uses various separators, not just a hyphen (-).

27. When you drew that Fish-And-Chips sign, you should have put a hyphen between Fish and And and And and Chips"."

28. En dash (En rule): A rule the length of which equals an en. Used to take the place of hyphen in many occasions when finer typography is. required.

29. Create a range in which the starting character value is lower than the hyphen character and the ending character value is equal to or greater than the hyphen.

1. The dash is longer than the hyphen.