Sentence examples for constructing a sentence from inspiring English sources

Constructing a sentence is the equivalent of taking a Polaroid snapshot: pressing the button, and watching something emerge.

This supposition seems refuted by the striking consistency with which Eichmann, despite his rather bad memory, constantly repeated, word for word, the same stock phrases and self-invented clichés (when he did succeed in constructing a sentence of his own, he thereupon repeated it until it became a cliché) in referring to every event or incident that was of some importance to him.

Omaar suddenly finds it impossible to construct a sentence.

This is a crucial part of grammar because, without it, you cannot construct a sentence like, "Starring in a movie based on your own book is really cool".

If you want to construct a sentence and can't find the word you are searching for, you have to think of a way to write round it.

All of this turns young Hungarian brains into super-computers as they rapidly process all the calculations needed just to construct a sentence.

You use grammar every time you construct a sentence, not just those times when you're scratching your head about whether to use "who" or "whom".

Instead of being provided with building blocks which would allow you to construct a sentence of your own, you're left using the hundreds or thousands of sentences that you have memorized.

Of course, you can't construct a sentence that includes the words "struggled" and "New Orleans's safety" without mentioning the beating Vernon Davis put on the man coverage of Malcolm Jenkins and Roman Harper.

Some critics have sneered that Theodore, who writes letters for a living, can't actually construct a sentence, but that, surely is the point: there is no true emotion in this modern world, and it seems unlikely that Jonze would expect anyone to swoon at Theodore's attempt at a love letter which includes the sentence, "The world is on my shitlist".

Also, the candidates at a higher level displayed the ability to construct a sentence with more complex sentence patterns.