Sentence examples for excellent sentences from inspiring English sources

Warm-Up | Several days before teaching this lesson, ask students to spend the next few days on a hunt for excellent sentences, according to their own standards, which they will explain when they share.

By this I mean that critics must strive to write stylishly, to concentrate on the excellent sentence.

His Memoirs of a Sword Swallower opens with this excellent sentence: "I probably never would have become America's leading fire eater if Flamo the Great hadn't happened to explode that night in front of Krinko's Great Combined Carnival Side Shows".

If the white Corvette drives people to finding those sentences, excellent.

The writing is clean and simple and the story straightforward – a woman, Katherine, leaves her home in the far north of Norway after realising her husband is a liar, travels as far south as Paris, then returns to find a new partner – but every observation is emotionally acute, and (in Michael Hoffman's excellent translation) every sentence rings completely true.

Thus pardons even much merited by inequities in the original sentence and excellent behavior in prison and sitting presidents and governors tend to reserve their pardons for symbolic gestures to sometimes dead prisoners whose families have sought to clear their names.

The quality of the statements varied from one sentence to excellent.

I hope that readers did not miss two sentences in this excellent column that merit repeating: "He [ ChesterHerbert, Mr. Herbert's father] wasn't ready to die when the doctors and the charts and the X-rays said he was supposed to.

We have added a sentence making this excellent point just before the discussion of the models.

This is an excellent point, and the original sentence was poorly phrased.

With experts agreed that certain punishment is far more important than length of sentence, that's an excellent deal all the way around.