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Semicolons in Sentences. 1  Dad is going bald; his hair is getting thinner and thinner. 2  I really like beef, with mushroom sauce; pasta, with Alfredo sauce; and salad, with French dressing. 3  You should stop eating so much food; you will have to go on a diet. 4  You need new brakes; otherwise you may not be able to stop in time.
The semicolon is a mark of punctuation ( ; ) most commonly used to separate independent clauses that share the same general idea(s). The semicolon suggests a closer connection between the clauses than a period does. Semicolons still appear fairly often in academic writing; however, they have fallen out of fashion in less formal kinds of prose. You would do well to keep semicolons at a minimum, advises Associated Press editor Rene Cappon. Unlike many of the other punctuation marks, says Martin Manser, there is no occasion on which the semicolon cannot be replaced by another form of punctuation or sentence construction (Good Word Guide, 2008).