What is "punctuated"

Usage examples of "punctuated".

While we look in horror at a badly punctuated sign, the world carries on around us, blind to our plight.

Since leaving the city those nightmare situations had been punctuated by brief moments of success and real achievement such as finding the house yesterday and realising its full potential this morning.

With more rapidity, the darkness was punctuated with movement in the air and odd sounds.

In the distance, they could hear what had caused him to halt the party: a deep growl, punctuated by barking, and counterpointed by other, less familiar growling.

The hours dragged on, as night deepened, punctuated only by an occasional dull explosion as another basement was at last ignited.

Brass Babboon punctuated this last with a cascade of sky rockets ending in a blue and silver chrysanthemum burst.

Korlat well understood, lay in their maintaining a respectable distance from each other, punctuated by the occasional convergence.

Tock was sprawled beside the fire emitting a loud reptilian snore, punctuated with occasional belches as he digested his dinner.

An occasional glimpse of a red-tile roof punctuated the thick expanse of green.

When we entered the room there was a general giggle, and then a shower of comments upon my appearance,--each sentence punctuated with the chorus of feminine cachination.

A random bullet fired by the outlaws punctuated the urgency of their situation.

Now he could hear the grunts and gasping of the climber, punctuated by stretches of silence as the man waited and listened for danger.

When they saw the medicine woman pick something up and take it with her, their hands flew in rapid motions punctuated by a few guttural sounds, discussing it with excited curiosity.

When he spoke, it was with the common gestures punctuated with the gruff words of everyday speech.

Maeve snapped her words at them and then punctuated her tirade with a stiff drink.