Sentence examples for a lead sentence from inspiring English sources

(The service's name refers to the Turk, a chess-playing automaton built in the late 18th century later determined to be a fake).Mr Giles and his colleagues have already completed the first test, where they asked ten workers to write a lead sentence or two that would capture the most salient point in the abstract of this research paper.

There are endless ideas for Talk of the Town stories, and fairly endless criticisms of published ones: on one tear sheet, she underlined a lead sentence that read, "Every now and then we run across an announcement so staggering to our reason that we have to go off somewhere and lie down for a week," and wrote next to it, "This is getting pretty neurotic".

* "Yesterday" in a lead sentence.

"This needs to be overhauled," Mr. Winkler said as he looked at an article about Royal Philips Electronics with a confusing lead sentence.

No subheadings (in most cases, a subheading merely duplicates the key point of a well-formulated lead sentence).

This lead sentence is a mouthful.

He was a master of the arch lead sentence: "Among the great education achievements of the year not commented upon by such as James B. Conant was the performance of Fat Thomas' brother in the Dale Carnegie course at Attica State Prison," he wrote in The New York Herald Tribune.

Oh wait, that was actually the lead sentence in a May 3rd Washington Times piece by Carlo Muñoz.

The lead sentence in a mid-June AP story pushes all the buttons, raises all the questions: "A presidential candidate who's named Hussein and wears a turban?

De Blasio was even taking to task in the lead sentence of an Associated Press story.

If all famous lives come down in the end to the lead sentence in an obituary, James Garner was put on Earth to play Jim Rockford, the life-sized private eye hero of "The Rockford Files".