How to use dot in a sentence

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• He was bewildered by how the car was festooned with polka dots.From the entry festoon
• My editor is very finicky about punctuation. Every dot and comma has to be just right.From the entry finicky
• If you join up the dots, you will reveal a picture.From the entry join up
• Viewed from up close, the image becomes a blur of coloured dots.From the entry up close
• The program begins at 9 o’clock on the dot.From the entry begin
• He arrived at 10 o'clock, on the dot.From the entry on the dot
• She’s bang on the dot, as usual.From the entry bang on
• That hat dates from the year dot.From the entry year dot
• Before taking the project to the CEO, let's make sure we dot the i's and cross the t's.From the entry dot the i's and cross the t's
• Let me read this part of the note for the court reporter: "Either meet my demands or dot dot dot."From the entry dot dot dot
• Rishabh is Indian (dots, not feathers).From the entry dots, not feathers
• Regal sea goddesses have navy blue bodies inscribed with yellow lines and often polka dots.2022 April 12, Jack Israel, “Short but Beautiful Lives”, in world.dan.org. From the entry regal sea goddess
• The digital edition advises against using ‘and’ or ‘or’ at the end of dot points in lists.2021, “Lists”, in Australian Government Style Manual, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2021. From the entry dot point
• There were red hibiscus flowers splashed all over it, yellow dots quivering at the stamens.2020, Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji, Faber & Faber Ltd, page 231. From the entry hibiscus
• Spread a thin layer of apricot jam over the bulkas and dot with butter.2020, Aden Friedman, “[Ettie Buch] Bulkas (Cinnamon Rolls)”, in My Yiddishe Mama: A Collection of Heritage Recipes and Haimishe Stories…. From the entry bulka
• It consists of three dots or periods preceding the last (or only) parameter in the function signature.2019, David Powers, PHP 7 Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy, page 64. From the entry splat
• You just have to look at it and join the dots.”2019 June 30, Philip Oltermann, quoting Sibylle Berg, “German sci-fi fans lap up dystopian tales of Brexit Britain”, in The Guardian. From the entry microhousing
• Help children sprinkle a bit of glitter on each glue dot.2019, Ann Dickinson Degenhard, Celebrating the Lectionary® for Preschool and Kindergarten, page 8. From the entry glue dot
• There are various kinds of screentones, but the ones with printed small dots are the most basic.2018, Danica Davidson, Rena Saiya, Manga Art for Intermediates, page 7. From the entry screentone
• “When you see several dots on a page you begin to get a line of trajectory.2017 September 23, Tom Phillips, quoting Orville Schell, “China finds its own Top Gun and Rambo in wave of patriotic movies”, in The…. From the entry jingoism
• There was talk that Apple would release an iMac with a quantum dot screen last year.2016 May 6, Joanna Klein, “How a Mysterious Bacteria Almost Gave You a Better TV”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry quantum dot
• A dot matrix is a 2-dimensional patterned array, used to represent characters, symbols and images.2016, “Dot matrix”, in Tomorrow’s Technology and You: Introductory: e-Study Guide (Just the Facts101: Textbook Key Facts), [s.l.]: Cram101…. From the entry dot matrix
• “Here are those dots,” Johnston said about the glut of Trumpiana that is already out there.2016 August 12, Jennifer Szalai, “Inside the List”, in The New York Times. From the entry Trumpiana
• In this chapter, the experimental studies of the homogenous width of quantum dots are reviewed.2013, Yasuaki Masumoto, “Homogeneous Width of Confined Excitons in Quantum Dots -- Experimental”, in Y. Masumoto, T. Takagahara, editors…. From the entry homogeneous width
• The sick-wagon appeared only a silver dot in the crimsoning distance.2010, Earnest "Tex" Sims Sr., Once Upon A Time in the Past: The Sons of Sam Logan, page 30. From the entry sick-wagon
• A different sized screen was used to create a different sized dot for each percentage.2009, Kevin Tinsley, Digital Prepress for Comic Books, New York, NY: Stickman Graphics, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry stat
• A prime example is "Ragnarok," with its scattering of airbrushed dots over a rough-textured, woodlike surface.2009 January 2, “Art in Review”, in New York Times. From the entry woodlike
• The three dots next to each gadget show how many upgrades have been purchased.2008, “PDA”, in Cory in the House: Instruction Booklet, Burbank, California: Disney Interactive Studios; Nintendo, page 11. From the entry upgrade
• The remains of a well-developed Prothean mining infrastructure dot the planet.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Quana. From the entry necropoli
• The Queen of the Night is backlighted by a skyful of starry dots.2007 April 11, Bernard Holland, “The Flute Is Awfully Nice, Tamino, but Check Out That Astral Sketchbook”, in New York Times. From the entry skyful
• A small dot of blood, red as a Valentine’s rose, bloomed against her alabaster skin.2005, Gregory Maguire, One Final Firecracker, →ISBN, page 148. From the entry Valentine's
• The Question Mark has a small silver dot just below the hook—a question mark.2004, Scott Shalaway, “Close-ups”, in Butterflies in the Backyard, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry question mark
• Second, the Greek colon or semicolon (the ano teleia) is a single centered dot (·).2003, Richard Gillam, Unicode Demystified: A Practical Programmer's Guide to the Encoding Standard, Addison-Wesley, page 240. From the entry ano teleia
• This is an extremely hard to find platform jumper centered around everyone's favorite dot eating hero.2002, Andy Slaven, Video Game Bible, 1985-2002, page 161. From the entry jumper
• McCourtney, however, recognizes the need for more urgency in these euphoric days of dot.com stock offerings.2000 April 3, Robert Lenzner, “Personality Change”, in Forbes, retrieved 07 Apr 2015. From the entry fast times
• Connect the dots with a line and label it A-C (for gum A, Chewability score).1993, Charlotte Baecher, Consumer Education Materials Project, Product testing activities by Consumer reports: student databook, Pearson…. From the entry chewability
• Though faster than typing, the daisy wheel is molasses compared to dot matrix printers.1990, Norman Schreiber, Your Home Office, New York, N.Y.: Perennial Library, →ISBN, page 91. From the entry molasses

Meaning of dot

1. noun A small, round spot.
2. noun A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
3. noun A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.

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Questions about dot in a sentence

How do you use dot in a sentence?

Dot is used as a noun. For example: “He was bewildered by how the car was festooned with polka dots.”

What is a short sentence with dot?

“a dot of colour”

What does dot mean?

Dot means a small, round spot.