How to Use quotation in a Sentence

quotation

noun

• He gathered quotations from the trial transcript to prove his point.
• She relied heavily on quotation in her essays, which made them less original.
• If there are a lot of people with the same name as the broker, use quotation marks around the name to limit the search.
  — Chris Carosa, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• As my quotation marks imply, that's still a very big number, in the grand scheme of things.
  — Kevin Dowd, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2021
• Try to bring that quotation to mind the next time your uncle tries dragging you down into the mud for a fight.
  — cleveland, 9 Jan. 2022
• A lot of agencies don’t know how to get clients outside of the request for quotation/pitch process.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 9 June 2022
• The quotations—three hundred and forty-two of them—are numbered and arranged by theme.
  — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
• That makes this a fun book to read, though a windy one, as the long quotation in the previous paragraph suggests.
  — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2021
• Like much of Wiley’s work, the statue is a quotation of centuries-old styles.
  — Kriston Capps, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2019
• But Warren came to learn that quotations and data points weren’t enough.
  — Liz Goodwin, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2019
• The senator did not say where that quotation came from.
  — New York Times, 21 Mar. 2022
• In the book’s quotations from her stream-of-consciousness journals, readers can trace her path to peace of mind.
  — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• There comes a point, though, where irony hits its limit: No one can couch what Wood describes as rape in edgy quotation marks.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2022
• The quotation attributed to him is correct in its first words but then takes his speech out of context.
  — Tonyaa Weathersbee, USA TODAY, 21 June 2020
• But there's a larger lesson here than just one man's Bible quotation gone wrong.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
• If someone uses the formal name in a quotation, and the quote is necessary, that is fine.
  — WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
• If there is a single colorful quotation to his name, it has not been found.
  — Chris Buckley, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2019
• Biden's comment about the Logan Act are the only words that appear in quotation marks.
  — Daniel Chaitin, Washington Examiner, 24 June 2020
• There was just one hitch: No one — not the airline’s lawyers, not even the judge himself — could find the decisions or the quotations cited and summarized in the brief.
  — Benjamin Weiser, New York Times, 27 May 2023
• For all the results below — which were still unique at press time [in 2010] — the phrases were entered within quotation marks.
  — Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2022
• One painting is dwarfed and all but surrounded by a long quotation in an oversize font.
  — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2021
• Will those quotation marks stay in place during the course of the film or will matters start to become homicidal for real?
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 26 Apr. 2022
• The first essay was only 600 words and included just two direct quotations from the book.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
• To twist an old quotation, there is something to be said for being one of the healthier horses in the glue factory.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 14 Sep. 2020
• The group apologized and first tried to add context to justify using the quotation.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 5 July 2023
• Also, for ease of reading, certain acronyms in the quotations below have been written out.
  — Garrett M. Graff, Wired, 17 Apr. 2020
• Between them, cursive quotations stretched across a background of bright clouds.
  — Alex Cuadros, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• Its promotion of the healing effects of aloe, chamomile, and spelt is fit for quotation on health-food packaging.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• Her love of Woolf in her early writing, her attempt to imitate her cedes here to quotation.
  — Wyatt Mason, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• There’s a quotation from Saul Bellow that asks, in effect, how those who survived the ordeal of the Holocaust will survive the ordeal of freedom.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024