Sentence examples for bad sentences from inspiring English sources

Bad sentences are everywhere.

Others identified bad sentences but still felt overwhelmed and apparently too close to their work, writing, "I don't know… it's just bad". I compiled all the problem sentences on a worksheet without the names of their authors.

The warning that the rush to send out a tough message and to make an example of those involved in violence was leading to "some very bad sentences" came as members of the coalition Government appeared split over the issue.

Andrew Neilson, director of campaigns for the Howard League for Penal Reform, added that the rush to send a message out was leading to "some very bad sentences, which will be overturned on appeal".

After a summer of mad growth and ungovernable expansion, vines that trail on like bad sentences, small dry bulbs that erupt into sprawling, overripe flower mounds, I can't wait for the fall editing session when I can get to work yanking out all the dead things, the ugly things, the mistakes and misjudgments.

But NPR, in its initial statement, made it sound like this was just about a few bad sentences that had spoiled a good thing: Juan has been a valuable contributor to NPR and public radio for many years and we did not make this decision lightly or without regret.

Well, perhaps you should be asking, "What makes a bad sentence?" and then doing none of those things.

It often seemed as if Robert Hughes, the critic and historian who died Monday at 74, never wrote a bad sentence.

I mean, seriously, the guy lived through food and materials rationing, his pram bombling along cobble-blasted lanes recently blessed with Nazi chicanery (bad sentence).

QUESTION FROM ROBIN: Can you offer some other techniques Michels uses when a writer is blocked besides the egg timer and bad sentence exercise?

Jon Meacham, the Random House executive editor who acquired the book, wrote in an e-mail: "Arthur was a unique figure, both a historian and a maker of history -- and luckily for us he was apparently incapable of writing a bad sentence".