Em

//ˈɛm//

"Em" in a Sentence (23 examples)

Get 'em before they get you!

Put your hands up here and get' em wet.

If you can't lick 'em, join 'em.

She's as clever as they make 'em.

So, well, it's a bitter decision for the student council to make as well. Give 'em a break.

Em dashes were named after Dorothy's aunt.

Gotta catch 'em all!

Gotta catch 'em all.

They don't make 'em like they used to.

Stick 'em up! This is a robbery!

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It said, in a whispering, buzzing voice, "Gee-you-ess-ess-ay-dash-em-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-em-eye-en-gee-oh-dash-pee-eye-pee-dash-pee-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-pee-eye-en-gee-oh."

Insert here a one-em dash or long dash.

That the price of work, paid for by letters be advanced from fourpence to fourpence halfpenny per thousand, including English and brevier; and, in leaded matter, the ems and ens at the beginnings and ends of the lines not to be reckoned in the width.

If the author uses such notation, it should be up to Em to indicate Eir intentions clearly, but there’s no harm checking first.

I may become quite intimate with someone, spend hours with em every night, and yet not have the slightest idea what eir voice sounds like, or what eir RL body looks, feels, and smells like.

E invites em to consider how ey represent emselves^([sic]), and in so doing, e focuses eir attention on the ethics that make human relations possible.

And ultimately: I think my readers are mature enough that knowing eir assigned gender is not going to give them an “excuse” to misgender em.

“You idiot girl! Are you childsick?” She grabbed Asu’s wrist; Asu made no effort to twist away. “Sand and soil, tell me you’re not pregnant. Is it that—what’s eir name? Aeran? Have you lain with em? Tell me!”

She was abused by, em... David, I think. That was his name, he's a real em... what's the word, narcissist. You should really stay away from him.

And oh, Aunt Em! I'm so glad to be at home again!

Mind you, he never calls me anything back. Isn't that the way of it? What do men call their wives. 'Em...' Like every woman in the planet was christened Emily. 'Em...is that shirt clean?'

Secondary drone got EM spectrum on the kill.

Commander, I can see most of it now. Readings are all over the EM spectrum.

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