Use a slash to separate alternatives.

Then there was Daryl, the cabdriver/bartender.

– John L’heureux, The Handmaid of Desire

Use slashes to mark line divisions between two or three lines of poetry quoted within running text. When using a slash to separate lines of poetry, precede and follow it with a space (43b).

In Sonnet 29, the persona states, “For thy sweet love rememb’red such wealth brings / That then I scorn to change my state with kings.”

Slashes also separate parts of fractions and Internet addresses.