Crossword-Solution: COLONS 6 letters, 39 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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COLONS anagram COLSON, CONSOL

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Sets of two dots 1 answer
List preceders 1 answer
Parts of analogies 1 answer
Parts of some emoticons 1 answer
Punctuation in analogies 1 answer
Punctuation marks in a marathoner's time 1 answer
Punctuation marks used in analogies 1 answer
Ratio indicators 1 answer
Ratio marks 1 answer
Ratio separators 1 answer
List introducers 1 answer
Sideways umlauts? 1 answer
Some sentence dividers 1 answer
They precede many lists 1 answer
Time punctuations 1 answer
Two-dot punctuation marks 1 answer
Vertical umlauts 1 answer
Waste lines? 1 answer
Watch flashers? 1 answer
Large intestines 1 answer
Kin of commas 1 answer
Hour-minute dividers 1 answer
Frequent hour followers 1 answer
Eyes in texts 1 answer
Eyes for emoticons 1 answer
Digital hour/minute dividers 1 answer
Costa Rican currency 1 answer
Chapter and verse separators 1 answer
Analogy question quartet 1 answer
Analogy punctuators 1 answer
An analogy uses four of them 1 answer
Ratio symbols 2 answers
Two-pointers 2 answers
"Eyes" in many emoticons 2 answers
Analogy punctuation 2 answers
Causes for pauses 3 answers
Punctuation marks 10 answers
COLON IN ANALOGIES 10 answers
Time periods 15 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with COLONS (5)

You've missed me, haven't you?" "No one," said I, "whom I have ever known knows as well as you do how to space properly belt buckles, semi-colons, hotel guests, and hairpins.
Roads of Destiny O. Henry 1997
Une grande partie de ces Colons sont les enfans de ces hommes qui s'expatrierent dans ces temps de trouble ou l'ancienne Angleterre, en proie aux divisions, etait attaquee dans ses privileges et droits; et allerent chercher en Amerique une terre ou ils pussent vivre et mourir libres et presque independants:--et ces enfans n'ont pas degenere des sentimens republicains de leurs peres.
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XIX. (of XXI.) Thomas Carlyle 2000
Pour surcroit de bonheur pour eux, tous ces Colons sont parvenues, dans un etat tres-florissant; ils sont nombreux et riches:--ils recueillent dans le sein de leur patrie toutes les necessites de la vie.
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XIX. (of XXI.) Thomas Carlyle 2000
But Lord Timothy spells to suit himself, and in place of employing punctuation as it is commonly used, prints a separate page of periods, colons, semicolons, commas, notes of interrogation and of admiration, with which the reader is requested to “peper and soolt” the book as he pleases.
Over the Teacups Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 2006
But Lord Timothy spells to suit himself, and in place of employing punctuation as it is commonly used, prints a separate page of periods, colons, semicolons, commas, notes of interrogation and of admiration, with which the reader is requested to "peper and soolt" the book as he pleases.
The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist) 2004

Quotes with COLONS (3)

My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Armageddon in Retrospect
As dawn leaks into the sky it edits out the stars like excess punctuation marks, deleting asterisks and periods, commas, and semi-colons, leaving only unhinged thoughts rotating and pivoting, and unsecured words.
Ann Zwinger Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon
E.M. Ashford: And death shall be no more" comma "death, thou shalt die." Nothing but a breath, a comma separates life from life everlasting. E.M. Ashford: Very simple, really. With the original punctuation restored Death is no longer something to act out on a stage with exclamation marks. It is a comma. A pause. E.M. Ashford: In this way, the uncompromising way one learns something from the poem, wouldn't you say? Life, death, soul, God, past present. Not insuperable barriers. Not semi-colons. Just a comma.
Margaret Ebson
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 34 times in crossword archives (1978–2025).