1.   The sound of another flare being fired punctuated the night.

2.   And the night was punctuated by single, intermittent gunshots, possibly from snipers.

3.   His first at-bat homer at Safeco Field punctuated a night almost too good to be true.

4.   His own trial, while never explicitly alluded to in his speech, seemed to punctuate the night as much as all the bursts of applause.

5.   Nights were punctuated by bursts of gunfire and the barking of stray dogs, once pets, now traveling in wild packs.

6.   Other tasks punctuate the night.

7.   Punctuate my night.

8.   Rebel Serbs retaliated by shelling Croatian towns and cities, including Zagreb, where the wail of air raid sirens repeatedly punctuated the night.

9.   Sounds of owls and coyotes punctuate the night.

10.   Earlier, a sense of normalcy had returned to the streets of the Iraqi capital in sharp contrast to the sirens and antiaircraft fire that had punctuated the night.