single quote in English

noun

single quotation mark

Use "single quote" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "single quote" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "single quote", or refer to the context using the word "single quote" in the English Dictionary.

1. Use a single quote for minutes and a double quote for seconds:

2. An alternate padding character can be specified by prefixing it with a single quote (').

3. For all but very simple Aliases, the body of the alias is enclosed within single quote marks '

4. For example, users may need to enter a single quote (or apostrophe) as part of a person's name.

5. Listing 11 shows an example of the escape sequences for a string that uses a single quote as an apostrophe.

6. To create an actual apostrophe, put two single quote marks side-by-side ('') to produce one quote mark in your output.

7. And, I had certain films that I would fall asleep so it was 'Clueless' for quite a long time, and I used to just watch it every single night and knew every single line, every single quote

8. When it immediately follows a group of letters or is wedged between two, as is usually the case when we’re Apostrophizing, then it pops up as the closed single quote — that s the one — and we’re fine and dandy.