Maybe I'm missing the point of this question, but the double quotes allow you to include variables. E.G.:

$var = 'foo';
$str = "abc $var def";
print $str;

abc foo def
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if you want to actually include single quotes in the $str, then escape them:

$str = "\'abc $var def\'";
print $str;

'abc foo def'
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