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Synonyms for punctuate

to mark with punctuation

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While Stella read My Graves, punctuating its tragic paragraphs with chuckles, and Rusty slept the sleep of a just cat who has been out all night curled up on a Jane Andrews tale of a beautiful maiden of fifteen who went to nurse in a leper colony -- of course dying of the loathsome disease finally -- Anne glanced over the other manuscripts and recalled the old days at Avonlea school when the members of the Story Club, sitting under the spruce trees or down among the ferns by the brook, had written them.
Punctuating his narrative with many gestures and an occasional gulp, he proceeded to do so.
Two years of continuous intentional efforts to embed inquiry and dialogue into their routines of daily engagement appear to stimulate an ability to balance the need for flow of daily routine with the intentional punctuating acts of observation, collection, meaning making, and sharing.
Throughout the screening Haino's improvised voice and guitar, starting in the dark as a slow, high-pitched wail even before the film began running, brilliantly followed the film's trajectory, with electricguitar riffs punctuating the vocals, the voice eventually swelling into an almost primal scream and the instrumentals increasing accordingly in volume and urgency.