Sentence examples for closing sentence from inspiring English sources

Correction: December 23 , 2001 Sunday The closing sentence of a letter to the editor from the author Joyce Carol Oates last Sunday, criticizing a plan to hunt deer hunting in Princeton, was scrambled by a typographical error.

Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's The closing sentence of one classic of American literature and the opening sentence of another, both reflecting upon the inevitable pull of the past.

Begin the note with the giver's name, i.e., "Dear Aunt Betsy," Write a few sentences mentioning what your plans are for the money and a closing sentence expressing your closeness to the giver.

It's the closing sentence of his blog post!

Pamish wrote: "Probably the best closing sentence ever written.

This clichéd truism isn't a very powerful closing sentence for this blog post.

In Waco, opening sentences are often punctuated with "sir" or "ma'am" and closing sentences with "hon".

At one point, Obama quoted the closing sentences of Mandela's celebrated speech from the dock at the Rivonia trial in 1963.

There then follows several exchanges of advantage, during which I type and delete umpteen closing sentences, before Nalbandian puts me out of my misery with the early break.

"Out," he urges himself and us, "always out: my penchant is for opening, not closing, sentences (and parentheses — and em dashes, so that this I can spawn or take on other Is, to expand toward the size of the big starry X that is whatever is coming after this, but not have to reduce back to the previous state, to vanish back into its once and former singularity".

Avoid closed sentences that simply state the obvious, like "We were at the zoo" or "I was six".