Sentence examples for an unfinished thought from inspiring English sources

" His voice trailed off in an unfinished thought.

-- that seems to give his mind a moment to catch up with the flow of words, or to close off an unfinished thought.

Such faltering could be an instance of anacoluthon (a change of syntax within a sentence), or aposiopesis (a rhetorical term for an unfinished thought), or maybe agrammatism (a form of expressive aphasia).

Another, "listening to rap music," just seemed like an unfinished thought.

One example of this comes at the very end of the play, whose written text ends with a dash, an unfinished thought trailing off into space.

"There is not in this slender book one stale sentence, redundant word or unfinished thought".

We'd just spent a Sunday morning wandering through an exhibition titled "Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible" at the Met Breuer; even as my face went slack, I recognized his poetic timing.

We'd just spent a Sunday morning wandering through an exhibition titled Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible at the Met Breuer; even as my face went slack, I recognized his poetic timing.

The Met Breuer will open in March, with an exhibition called "Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible".

But as a whole the piece feels like a series of unfinished thoughts.

First up: "Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible," an exhibition of nearly two hundred works, which ranges from Titian to Basquiat, connecting the past to the present.